Based on the old Sartre quotation I think maybe the old crop of fascists were as well.
Never believe that anti‐Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly since he believes in words.
There’s some nexus of ideas here: memeing, self-parodying and seeming ridiculous while out of power. Enforcing that ridiculousness while in power through doublethink/doublespeak. Because in the end if you can’t see murder and kleptocracy with your eyes, but register it as a government for the people, you can’t really be a fascist.
Yep, the weight is what kills you. Until we develop power assisted armor. Personally I want robot legs for my affliction.
I had seen development of an armor for the shoulder, as one can expect in urban warfare getting clipped while shooting around a wall is a common injury. But I don’t know if that got adopted in the military or not. Nor if the uses want the bulk to hinder them or not.
ETA - I have been told the shooter had an 80s era flak vest which wouldn’t stop most handgun bullets, and no rifle bullets. I don’t know if that is true, but it does look older to me.
The more “fun facts” I learn about history, the more I am convinced we are living in the least fucked times in human history. When bad things happen at least some of us are abhorred.
Not just the weight. It’s also the heat loading caused by the fact air can’t circulate around the body where the armor is. On a hot day, heat prostration will get you before fatigue caused by weight.
The OG crusaders carried an effigy of a dead guy who got nailed to a tree, way more normal!
Edit: The more I ruminate on this, the more I wonder, where would one get a manga-styled Jesus love pillow? I might get that just to keep in my place as a prop (not that kind!) and homage to two awesome things: Japanese anime/manga, and Jesus! I mean OG Jesus who was a nondualist and was deeply connected with Indian and Eastern philosophy, not the dead nailed-to-a-tree version.
If I knows my right-wing hive-mind, this recent event itself contradicts your statement and, in fact, shows that the system works and everything is as it should be: “a bad guy with a gun was killed by a good guy with a gun,” with no casualties at at that.
