ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]

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  • A historically accurate Steve Rogers would have never put the uniform back on in the 20th /21st century and instead became a Maoist third world-ist.

    Facts, his parents were Irish immigrants to New York in the early 20th century. At the bare minimum that means fleeing English colonial genocide and at the most possibly Irish Republican and socialist sympathies. His mother was a seamstress in New York, an often unionised and radicalized occupation due to events like the triangle waist factory fire.

    Steven was such an anti-fascist that he wanted to fight Nazis in 1941 before the USA had joined the war. He then fought Nazis all over the globe, alongside the USSR (and even saved Stalin’s life). He then went into the ice in 1945, missing the USSR being made the villains in the Cold War and the US recuperating the Nazis in the GDR and with operation paper clip.

    And due to the sliding time scale even more USA war crimes happen before he comes out of the ICE (roughly always 1-2 decades ago).




  • It’s been a while since I looked into but I think it’s not a rule at a national level, but the canton police have significant flexibility on whether they approve applications for semi-automatic rifles and handguns. So one place might have requirements that another might not.

    But for all manually operated firearms it’s pretty cruise-y.

    Edit: the more I look into there’s lot of different permits with overlap, shall issue or must issue etc. Swiss bureaucracy. Etc. But I guess my point is like if a persons want a pump action shotgun or a bolt action rifle they’d get it very quickly, and be able to keep it at home with ammo, for more complicated guns it might be harder.
















  • I think self immolation is a intensely contradictory thing.

    Because on the one hand I don’t want people to do it, at all, I don’t want the people who have the courage and the compassion to do it, to do it and die. These people were comrades. And it often feels like it doesn’t even tip the scale against the atrocities that it is in protest of.

    On the other the people who do are heroes. I’m not religious but while we argued about Bushnell here, the Palestinians, the Yemeni, all the oppressed people fighting this genocide immediately recognised Bushnell as a hero and martyr. It shows the oppressed people that even in the heart of the Great Satan, people support their righteous cause.

    Like it’s complicated and I would like it if the cause of it was not happening, rather than just self-immolation was not happening.