Abortion is legal and we should be able to talk about it. Even at work, definitely in school, and also on the floor of Congress. With no consequences at all.
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Sex sells? I’ve never been able to understand why so many beer ads pretend that the only people who buy beer are postadolescent boys who will be swayed by ads containing lots and lots of oversized boobs in tiny bikinis.
Also, obligatory video link:
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I know it will, but I wish this policy wouldn’t hit ForgottenWeapons so hard. That channel is purely educational. But nearly all the firearms Ian shows and talks about are supplied by auctionhouses and as a courtesy he does plug the auction houses saying stuff like “this piece is up for auction, if you feel like blahblahblah would make a good addition to your collection you can find it on rockislandauction.com and place a bid there.”
It’s not like they’d let him do his show if he didn’t plug where he actually gained access to the pieces.
But seriously, you could setup a museum with just the ForgottenWeapons channel.
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…and who says otherwise?
A lot of hyperconservatives who love guns and the death penalty but feel abortion and sex ed should never be discussed in school
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It’s the reason this annoys me so much. Forgotten Weapons is as inoffensive a channel as can be imagined. Hell, most of the weapons he showcases (a) can’t be bought without very specialized licenses or (b) fire a cartridge produced for three weeks in Argentina in 1894 or something. The probability they’ll do harm is precisely zero.
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The primary purpose of Forgotten Weapons is to serve as an advertisement for the Rock Island Auction House.
I enjoy the channel too, but I recognise it for what it is.
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These people are offensively stupid.
Why do you hate private enterprise?
Oh, and welcome to Boing Boing.
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Well, there’s the James D. Julia auction house, and also quite a few museums too. Like the National Firearms Centre in London, and the Musee d’Armes in Belgium.
Oh and also, he’s done some work with private collections as well. Like his videos on the M134 minigun. And the development of the Mannlicher automatic pistols, which are of great historical significance as the first commercially successful semiauto handguns.
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Not really. He works a lot with RIA but has been working with all sorts of other collections and auction houses, too. A few museums here and there. He probably has a working relationship with them that suits them.
That said, given that quite a lot of those pieces go for unimaginably vast sums and are likely going into a glass display case and never being fired, ever, even those that can still be fired, I am incredibly comfortable with him advertising them all he wants.
ETA: What @LDoBe said.
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Yeah. This video really nails it.
I bet a certain gun enthusiast would have some insight into this, but I hesitate to summon him…
As far as I can tell, it’s pretty explicitly Freudian in nature. Sometimes an AKM is just your father’s erect penis.
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Youtube is all about making money by selling ads and user data.
You will be able to put up anything - as long as they don’t think it will be in any way bad for their revenue stream.
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Time for The Cramps!
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“slowly chip away at our freedoms and erode our rights”
maybe if it was the government,
but it’s the private sector, it’s called market forces,
funny how some people purposely want to look like a victim…
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“Anyway, if you’re looking for a one-stop shop for your whacking and whack-off needs, your ship has finally come in.”
FINALLY!!!
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I find all the “but they are private so they can do what they want” a little hollow on the BBS, when in other threads people routinely call for censorship or outright nationalization of Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. because of their size and influence. I realize the bbs contains multitudes and contradicts itself, but I feel like folks are playing that game of fudging back and forth between “is” and “should”. People are hiding their approval of censorship behind “but they are a private company so no worry!” when if the private censorship applied to something else they approve of (say, talking about BLM) there would be a hue and cry and why don’t we have common sense regulation.
So go ahead and say a private company should be able to control what people say on their servers. I look forward to referencing this thread in the future. Meanwhile we’re being attacked from the other direction (on certain topics, companies are required to control what is being said on their servers) with FOSTA passing the Senate.
And this is an excellent illustration of why censorship sucks whether public or private- perfectly good, useful speech will be thrown out so that people don’t have to see something that squicks them. Youtube is going to be TV all over again- whether you think the airwaves/intertubes should be considered public or not, just change the damn channel if you don’t like what you see.
This reminds me of the adage I’m a big fan of about criminal justice- “better that 10 ammosexuals watch an offensive video than one person not learn about something historically interesting”.
Maybe the silver lining is that eventually youtube will fragment into something smaller that serves more, smaller, groups than trying to be everything for everybody. There will be fewer happy accidents of running across something that isn’t in one’s usual orbit, but apparently that’s the price we have to pay for not being fucking grownups.
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Gonna bump my stock with some hot slugs, gettin’ my rail nice and ‘custom’, ya know?
