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Should be a wild four years.

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quaawaa said:
They could also use a mortar (which is literally just a pipe) to do that, but they haven't.
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Some rudimentary mortars have been made in the past by asymmetrical fighting organizations, Hamas comes to mind as the most recent example. Not exactly accurate to my understanding but it's not like they're expensive to make either. Crashing a drone into something or hovering it into place to drop a bomb can guarantee a lot more accurate hits then firing in a general direction and hoping the ordinance lands in the right place though.
 
DumbDude43 said:
i don't think it's such a game changer tbh
with bombs the difficult part is obtaining or making the explosive material, and setting it up with a timed or remote controlled detonator in a way that will work reliably, all without blowing your hands off in the process.
drones make it easier to deliver your payload to the target in some situations, but the biggest hurdle is still the same.
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Depends, it just takes one motivated person to do it.

Drone smuggling is also a huge concern now, it's happening a lot
 
DumbDude43 said:
i don't think it's such a game changer tbh

in war drones are a huge game changer because access to proper bombs is not an issue for the army, the only difficulty is getting those bombs on target, which drones excel at.

but for civilians/terrorists/criminals it is the opposite: it is usually relatively easy to get close to your target and stash a bomb nearby, but it is extremely difficult to get your hands on high quality reliable bombs, and making something like that yourself is not an easy feat, and very dangerous.
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Drones as they pertain to police work are good for surveillance and tracking purposes but I'm not sure learning of their uses in warfare will help Chitwood out much. It's really two different worlds.
 
DumbDude43 said:
do you mean people using drones to smuggle other things across borders, or do you mean people smuggling drones across borders
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people using drones to smuggle other things across borders



Testimony
of
Steven Willoughby
Director (A) of the Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Management Office
Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Nearly every day, transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) use drones to convey illicit
narcotics and contraband across U.S. borders and conduct hostile surveillance of law
enforcement. In the last six months of 2024, over 27,000 drones were detected within 500
meters of the southern border, most of which were flying above 400 feet – the maximum flight
altitude allowed for drones in both the United States and Mexico – or flying between the hours of
8pm and 4am, when the cover of darkness can obscure illicit activity. Since 2019, U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) agents and officers have seized thousands of pounds of
methamphetamine, fentanyl, and other hard narcotics that drug traffickers have attempted to
transport through thousands of cross-border drone flights, including over 1,200 pounds in the
second half of 2024 alone. In October 2023, CBP seized a UAS that crossed from Mexico into
the United States carrying 3.6 pounds of fentanyl pills, enough to kill tens of thousands of
Americans. CBP drone detections also led to the arrests of over 1,500 subjects along the
southwest border, a clear indicator that TCOs are adopting the use of drones into their tactics as a
means of surveilling and evading CBP agents and officers and other law enforcement.
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cartels are also using drones to attack each other in Mexico, can easily spread to here if we get into a fight with the cartels



In one recent discovery in June, he said, his unit found a 40-millimeter grenade modified for drone delivery, the first of its kind documented in Mexico.
Cartels are also increasingly making chemical bombs, the authorities say, loading drones with compounds like aluminum phosphide, a toxic pesticide that can trigger hypoxia and circulatory failure, as well as other pesticides and poisons.
In April, a cartel dropped such bombs on three towns in southeastern Michoacán, where residents told local news outlets that they felt itching, burning skin and, in some cases, a feeling of suffocation.
Mr. Ortega said the surge in drones and I.E.D.s coincided with the arrival of Colombian nationals, former soldiers recruited to train cartel fighters. In only seven months, the state authorities have arrested 53 foreigners accused of having links to organized crime, among them 23 Colombians and 22 Venezuelans.
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Blewberry Nausea said:
Iran is making noise

Iran announces official end to 10-year-old nuclear agreement​

Tehran terminates 2015 deal under which sanctions were lifted in return for curbs on country’s nuclear programme
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Huh. Maybe they're just grumpy they can't get their nukes working and would like us to deliver one of ours by air freight for a demonstration on how it works.

Catch The Rainbow said:
criticizing this is retarded, US police get training from foreign militaries/police on how to handle threats all the time
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US police, yes. Geriatric sheriffs grand-standing for votes, not so much. Have you seen the dude we're talking about here? Scrawny, smarmy little shit. He is remarkably unintimidating in person. There is a reason (besides retardation) that the guy he had extradited to his county to charge him for hurting his feelings couldn't stop laughing when he met the shithead during the press conference perp-walk.

The Last Stand said:
Neither do I. I think it's better that I don't to conserve energy.
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That's about the only way to stay sane on this planet, friend. Wish I'd learned that sooner.

Catch The Rainbow said:
Depends, it just takes one motivated person to do it.
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No, it takes a motivated and competent person to do it, because an incompetent person making the attempt will blow himself up in the attempt and spare the world the nuisance of incarcerating him. It will be really fucking funny though, so hopefully lots of them try it and record their attempts.
 
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gagabobo1997 said:
ZOMG dont heckin obey the tyrannical government guys! They are going to kill us all! Now let's pose for our photoshoot of us all wearing frog costumes :D

fucking faggots i hope drumpf nukes portland
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When the Russians and Chinese inevitably fire hundreds/thousands of ICBM's to this country in the nuclear war they better wipe out every shitstain city in America off the face of Earth. Imagine a world without Portland, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, and New York City.
 
Mister Fister said:
What I don't get about the Glock switches is that it just makes you unable to hit anything. Wouldn't you think to put that switched Glock into a SMG conversion kit?
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They can't even understand per capita, what makes you think they'd understand % accuracy and recoil control? They likely only shoot the gun during their hood rat moments, practice and improvement through self-reflection aren't going to happen in the heat of the moment.
 
Justsomecicada said:
beyond optimistic, the police union of Chriaq openly said that’s why they were militarizing in the late 90s. If the state government wanted to how would they be unable? Illinois national guard is probably about as loyal as the Oregon national guard for one.
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Puff said:
The municipal police is not forming raiding parties.
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The Happenings thread on Haiti had a UN report touch on the subject of violence spilling into rural areas: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/haitian-crisis.185826/post-18079154
  • "Violence also continues to grow in the Lower Artibonite communes of Montrouis, Marchand Dessalines, Gros Morne, l’Estère, Liancourt, Petite Rivière de l’Artibonite, Verettes and Saint Marc. A joint OHCHR/BINUH report4 indicates that support from G-Pèp gangs based in the capital, coupled with alleged inconsistent and inadequate responses on the part of authorities, have facilitated the acceleration of violence in these rural areas and caused a serious deterioration of the human rights situation." (Page 3)
  • "The Protected Areas Security Brigade of the Ministry of the Environment (in French, Brigade de Sécurité des Aires Protégées or BSAP) has emerged as a new actor opposing the Government. Since the return of Guy Philippe to Haiti in late November 2023, armed BSAP affiliates have staged military-like parades in several provincial towns and have participated in and helped facilitate anti-government protests throughout the country. Since 20 January, at least 25 casualties (eight killed and 17 injured) have been recorded mainly in the context of confrontations between protestors and police officers." (Page 4)
TL;DR G-Pep (the rival gang alliance to Barbecue's G9) expanded its operations from Port-au-Prince to Artibonite department, which is Haiti's breadbasket. They faced opposition from BSAP, rural park rangers who turned to vigilantism.

It's not a solid comparison to the above scenario, since authorities in Haiti faced civil collapse instead of opposition from higher government, and their response was to flee the country rather than hunker down. But much of Haitian gangs' manpower and expertise on both sides of the G9/G-Pep rivalry, including Barbecue himself, come from former Haitian police. And I'd expect American police to have better options in mind than "dissolve into gangs and try to secure rural resources AFTER the shooting starts," especially since they'd have more to worry about than park rangers. Still, even if they are versed in contingency plans, it's a bit much to expect Chicago's police to go full paramilitary rather than distance themselves from a state government gone off the deep end, and I agree that Pritzker would sooner back down or flee to Europe than prosecute a war against the federal government.
 
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gernig said:
When the Russians and Chinese inevitably fire hundreds/thousands of ICBM's to this country in the nuclear war they better wipe out every shitstain city in America off the face of Earth. Imagine a world without Portland, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, and New York City.
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This illustration on the rock is the Hopi Prophecy brought to them by the Kachinas, who the Hopi said came from the stars and taught them agriculture and shamanism. The prophecy is that man must choose between a world based on materialism and technology, and one based on agriculture and spirit. The material path leads to destruction of the current world, the former being destroyed in a flood. Agriculture is sacred, it's more than an occupation.
For the record, shroom season is here and all my cattle are black angus cows. Every year I get enough shrooms to fill up a fucking trash bag.
 

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RantyAndy said:
They're whipping out fucking submarines now. Narcos must be fucking DESPERATE. :story:

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Rand Paul: ""I decry this senseless and illegal shooting of innocent boaters in a pleasure craft!"


Blewberry Nausea said:
The people showed up at Butler Field in Grant Park, Chicago, for the No Kings protest against the Trump Administration
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Analysts are calling this the biggest protest in American history. It’s far bigger than any rally Donald Trump has ever had. This is Boston. Rallies just like this are happening in cities big and small all around the country.
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Hmm...and yet Trump is still President.
 
The Last Stand said:
Grown ass man.
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Sometimes, the only reasonable response to retarded enemies being retarded is to bury them in so much retarded bullshit in one shot they just can't cope with it. This is absolutely one of those times. There is no "grown up, mature" response to this degree of retardation capable of producing "No Kings" as a protest concept in a democratic republic with an elected official operating at peace time within the limits of his office.

Seriously -- an entire cadre of mostly-paid agitators are claiming with all sincerity that a duly-elected official (who achieved a democratic victory in such a landslide it'll still be talked about in a hundred years) literally doing what he was elected to do (and to the overwhelming approval of his voters and supporters), fancies himself a "King," essentially calling him a dictator using a shorter word more of them can spell.

There is no "reasonable" or "serious" retort to that kind of bullshit. The best response really is to just ... dump lots of bullshit on their heads. That's what this is, and it's glorious. I say drown 'em in it.
 
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