/civ/ - Civics

Anonymous 16/12/31(Sat)21:24 No. 133 ID: 23da8e [Reply]

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Given that I, as probably a few 7chan denizens, know a little bit about how cyber attacks work, when I see the Obama administriation expel 35 russian diplomatic staff and sanction a couple of private individuals and organizations, it spells out something very clearly: they have no fucking idea who is responsble.

They made no economic or digital attempts to prevent further incursions--by anyone's perspective the higher priority.

The sad thing is, I actually believe Russia did attempt to intervene on Trump's behalf--but the Obama administration is too incompetent to figure out how or who actually did what and has chosen the most useless of all possible options: expel all the suspicious Ruskys.

pic unrelated: ISIS's Jihadi Boy Scouts--The Lions of Allah (can't wait for these kids to grow up).

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Anonymous 21/10/26(Tue)04:53 No. 2118 ID: 3ffccd

>>2116
Ugh. The 60's were a mistake.

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Anonymous 21/10/30(Sat)03:30 No. 2119 ID: def6ba

>>2112
Nope.

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Anonymous 24/12/01(Sun)00:37 No. 2446 ID: fd320f

Americans think that they can just turn in their firearms when the mandatory gun confiscation starts and then sue to get them back, but what if the guns will be destroyed and the gun ban will be permanent?

Anonymous 17/11/01(Wed)17:56 No. 457 ID: 873203 [Reply]

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Harvey Weinstein isn't a tipping point; he's the point of no return.

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Anonymous 19/11/09(Sat)15:50 No. 1725 ID: c6e683

>>1724
>the age of postbots and paid trolls
7chan has some of the weirdest shit. Link spam is one thing; but then we have bots like the one that posts nothing but anti-atheist comments as if it were having a discussion with itself. Then there was monotheism divinity; I actually kind of miss that greek muslim postbot. For a while there was this "artist" who posted various images with text strings from kusaba in a tiny font embedded in them; kept getting banned for treating any board like /b/. Odd shit.

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Anonymous 19/11/10(Sun)13:09 No. 1729 ID: a465b8

>>1725
It's not just 7chan though. Every website, provided its been online long enough, gets a trickle of crap from mentally ill people.

My workplace moved earlier this year after the old building was set on fire by contractors (quality is job one), and it took a few months for the mentally ill to figure out where we moved to.

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Anonymous 24/12/01(Sun)00:19 No. 2445 ID: fd320f

One wonders if Snowden regrets throwing away his life to warn ungrateful Americans about unconstitutional NSA wire-tapping.

Anonymous 17/03/12(Sun)16:57 No. 209 ID: d4ae80 [Reply]

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What better time for Best Korea to step forward and say,
"See, 'Republic of Korea', what we have been trying to tell you about demoracy and westernization all this time. It's all true. Just look at where it got you. Let us help you, let us free your government from corruption and intrigue. Accept the Kim family into your heart, and work for the best of all Korea."

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Anonymous 17/04/26(Wed)03:28 No. 273 ID: 8e1588

>>269
Which would lead to the futility of the whole thing. This is why genocide happens. The best way to ensure a gene becomes more dominant is to make sure the competition doesn't reproduce

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Anonymous 17/05/03(Wed)11:56 No. 277 ID: 2194e8

>>273
Except genocide is ultimately futile now, humans are too numerous to effectively commit genocide anymore. You can kill a particular tribe of people from a region, but they've spread far beyond that region, to areas where you can't possibly kill them.

This is why anti-globalists hate globalism. The thought of genocide coming to naught because families have spread themselves across the globe fills their primitive monkey brains with dread. They go to bed at night fondling their automatic weapons and the thought that they have no ability to do anything except make the area they live even more of a shithole keeps them awake long into the night.

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Anonymous 24/12/01(Sun)00:05 No. 2444 ID: fd320f

Real patriots wish that they could stay awake 24 hours a day spreading freedom.

I don't get the point off this board Anonymous 22/06/25(Sat)04:08 No. 2213 ID: 838b0b [Reply]

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I thought civics was about sewing and cooking?

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Anonymous 22/10/09(Sun)21:17 No. 2235 ID: c32e3f

>>2230
This is deliberate. Public education has been under attack since even before my time. It's hilarious that there's always some reason why the budget has to be cut meanwhile spending on militarizing police in quiet rural towns is out of control...

It's easier to manage a population that isn't self-aware. For example, did you know that by petitioning (at least) two thirds of the state legislatures, the people can call for a constitutional convention? and that we can ratify an amendment by a three-fourths vote in all states conventions?

Of course, so long as we are split exactly two ways on every issue and more focused on hating ourselves than solving our problems, that's never going to happen.

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Anonymous 22/12/19(Mon)14:23 No. 2239 ID: 31beea

I'd love to learn more on the history of the cotton gin and such

Just like school civics

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Anonymous 24/11/30(Sat)23:05 No. 2443 ID: 8aca73

We'll all be living in caves after everything is outlawed, but then you can be sure that living in caves will soon be banned in order to protect endangered bats.

Anonymous 18/04/04(Wed)06:44 No. 597 ID: 58fd5a [Reply]

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Every three days or so, there's dire news about Tesla's future, followed soon after by glowing sales reports or new innovations.

This stock is being manipulated by the media in a really predictable way. I'm thinking about investing at the next cycle.

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Anonymous 18/05/24(Thu)02:19 No. 775 ID: 2be65b

>>763
yesterday's headline: Tesla must sell expensive hi-spec 3s before mass-production type can roll out, or die!
today's headline: ~~Finally, good news for Tesla!~~ Tariff reduction in China likely to boost Tesla sales; Ys coming.

I'm on the fence.

>2044
Assuming there's any /civ/ilization left to use them.

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Anonymous 18/08/12(Sun)14:01 No. 881 ID: cbc430

>>775
In 2044 a ceiling fan will be an indentured child you attach to your ceiling, who waves their limbs around to cause air movement on command.

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Anonymous 24/11/30(Sat)08:42 No. 2442 ID: 13c989

When the USA was a free country, tyranny was limited because the US could take the moral high ground and stand up for freedom.

Now there is no limit to tyranny.

The virus was just a test run.

There is no limit to tyranny now because no one will call out abuses and there is no place to escape to.

PATCON and Timothy McVeigh Anonymous 21/03/16(Tue)02:47 No. 1992 ID: 791b1c [Reply]

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Was Tim McVeigh a federal informant?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zPrTLFBFc4s

I recently listened to this podcast which explores the book below:

Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh, by Wendy S. Painting

tl;dr
* Tim was probably a paid federal informant.
* At least the FBI and ATF knew about it all along.
* The "bomb" as built couldn't have exploded.
* Tim stopped by an unknown warehouse before he dropped off the bomb.
* Tim claimed that the bomb wasn't supposed to work, or was supposed to just blow up some windows. He told his first set of lawyers that he thought the bombs were switched.
* OKC had cameras EVERYWHERE, and the building blown up was INSIDE a federal compound, not just an isolated federal building.
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Anonymous 21/03/26(Fri)08:50 No. 1995 ID: 7cb4c3

So did you hear about how the Japs supposedly warned us before they bombed Pearl Harbor? It's actually incredibly likely they knew this guy was going to kill people and let him do it for various reasons all stemming from money...

Doesn't mean he or any soldier was a plant

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Anonymous 21/05/22(Sat)05:26 No. 2019 ID: 3e3227

>>1992
Good lord, go get some therapy.

I have the immediate cure for this particular symptom of your psychosis: go meet some people in Oklahoma.

There was nothing out of the ordinary that one of them filled up a truck with fertilizer, waltzed by a security gate, and blew up a government building.

The only wonder is that it's only happened once.

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Anonymous 24/11/30(Sat)07:39 No. 2441 ID: 13c989

Everything is illegal, everyone is a criminal, everyone is under surveillance 24/7, and no one cares.

Living in a police state means that you must live in dread of being arrested. You can't help feeling hopeless.

Anonymous 17/06/11(Sun)08:35 No. 328 ID: 7fa261 [Reply]

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In four years, at an adjusted cost of just $130 billion, the US prevented war-devastated Europe from becoming a shithole for another half-century.

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Anonymous 17/07/18(Tue)09:04 No. 373 ID: e9f020

>>372
You could be right. Particularly about this:
>The exploitation they engaged in, as I see it, is in part A RESULT of their inability to compete with America
That's likely. It would have been great for them to have prosperous nations along their border, but they probably couldn't have sustained them--let alone the USSR itself. It was certainly more cost effective to strip their remaining resources, though not as profitable.
and this:
>You might say that, given how war-ravaged it was, there was nothing to take to begin with
Don't be too quick to put anything past the United States. We've done a good deal more than our fair share if international dickery, but only when the profits from doing so significantly overcame the costs. The USSR was willing to accept a thinner profit margin for immediate gains; we wanted countries that would depend on trade with us and be able to give us loans in the future.

It does seem very much like both sides took advantage of the opportunities they had to the fullest capacity they were able.

Why isn't anyone thinking like this in our Middle Eastern wars? Both sides keep swapping incompetency and half-measures while the situation only gets worse and the staggering costs continue to skyrocket.

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Anonymous 17/07/21(Fri)12:37 No. 380 ID: 3b265d

>>373
Look on the bright side. Now that Russia has openly started killing citizens of the middle east, now they're going to discover what actual terrorism looks like, instead of just Putin's false flags.

They might even discover that their own citizens become disillusioned with being a perpetual underclass and start joining in.

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Anonymous 24/11/30(Sat)06:10 No. 2440 ID: 92753a

Those who say that the USA is a free and peaceful country with a balanced budget are liars.

Filing criminal charges against an officer Anonymous 19/11/24(Sun)08:07 No. 1747 ID: 3561af [Reply]

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How do I file criminal charges on an officer? Long story short, an officer illegally confiscated my firearm. I have already filed a complaint for violation of US Code Title 18 Section 242, Deprivation of Rights under Color of Law. They took it/filed it as a "complaint," however. I want to make sure this officer faces this as a criminal charge, not a simple "complaint." What procedure should I follow? I live in Tennessee if that is relevant

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Anonymous 21/01/20(Wed)20:50 No. 1964 ID: 835021

Don't bother. The American legal system is of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. I don't know what firearm you lost, but the value of it is MUCH less than what you'll have to spend to actually go through with this.

Additionally, I'm wondering what you hope the gain out of this? You won't change anything with the police as a whole even if this one officer were punished to a reductio ad absurdum level (drawn and quartered, perhaps?). So... is your aim revenge against someone you feel wronged you...?

A waste of time, waste of effort, waste of thought. Move on with your life. Buy a new gun. The system fucked you and you have no recompense. Welcome to America; get used to it.

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Anonymous 21/01/22(Fri)08:44 No. 1971 ID: 781be8

>>1747
Get pics of that cop from social media, his dox, and any info that is easily traced back to him such as usernames.

Using Tor, a crap laptop, Tails OS (Linux Mint if you're lazy), and public wifi that doesn't require ID, create social media accounts that are loosely linked to that cop. Not his actual name, but cropped pics of him with half-assed opsec and his usernames.

Never ever use the crap laptop to connect to the internet in your own home. Take the battery out of it after you shut it down at the library or starbucks or wherever you get wifi. Never put the battery in unless you are in public, away from home, work, etc.

Make accounts on various social media sites and far right sites that all reuse profile pics, user names, and very weak passwords.

Posing as the cop, post vile racist shit and how much you hate women, LGBTQ+ people, post hate facts, all sorts of shit. Sexually harass women using this account.

Leak screencaps of the account using a throwaway on reddit or leftypol.

Using Tor and another account, post his dox and the passwords to his account on the same.

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Anonymous 24/11/30(Sat)06:03 No. 2439 ID: 92753a

Americans are completely retarded now.

Courts uphold every law and Americans say that courts protect freedom.

The US is a police state, everything is illegal, and Americans scream that the police don't enforce the law enough.

Anonymous 18/05/17(Thu)07:16 No. 762 ID: 3a3089 [Reply] [Last 50 posts]

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If the Kent State students had been armed in 1970, the Ohio National Guard would have killed them all.

They were protesting for peace; they didn't want to have to carry guns, kill people, or fear for their lives--and four of them were killed for it.

Peace is not derived from armament. Deterrents are an inherently short-sighted solution: they only pause an enemy who has already decided to attack you until they acquire equal or better weapons. Best case scenario, the peace of the gun lasts only as long as no one gets angry enough or crazy enough to risk mutual annihilation--someone like that will always be around.

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Anonymous 20/11/20(Fri)05:14 No. 1950 ID: 7cb4c3

>>1949
Does the sorrow you spread ever turn on you?

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Anonymous 20/12/10(Thu)02:36 No. 1953 ID: a115ac

>>1950
Have you noticed how the sorrow Trump and his supporters spread never turns on them?

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Anonymous 24/11/29(Fri)23:37 No. 2438 ID: 92753a

Everything is illegal, everyone is a criminal, everyone is under surveillance 24/7, and no one cares.

Living in a police state means that you must live in dread of being arrested. You can't help feeling hopeless.

Anonymous 16/11/13(Sun)06:06 No. 15 ID: 7676eb [Reply]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the meeting between Trump and Obama at the White House, and here’s the thing.

Obama used to be a law professor. This is key.

Law school is so, so different from college.

In college, everyone expects there to be a “syllabus day,” kind of a grace period where they can show up and get the lay of the land, figure out the bare minimum that they can get away with, the TA gives everyone their office hours, there’s an introductory lecture, and everybody leaves a few minutes early to go take a nap or something. You do the bullshit assignments, you say something in class now and then to get your participation check mark, and figure out how badly you can do on the final and still pass.

But see, in law school, all the methodologies you’ve spent the last 17 years operating under go out the window. Day one of law school is you being thrown into the deep end of the pool—you’ve had a homework assignment for two weeks now, and it’s to read the first 200 pages of your casebook. And now it’s you and the teacher (who is usually as smug as Alex Trebek) gauging and assessing what you managed to absorb while you skimmed through all those pages of reading so you could hurry up and get to the other 150 pages of reading for your next period class, in front of 50 people who are all smarter than you. And if you fuck up, or you didn’t do the reading, you are at the mercies of not just the professor, but the silent satisfied judgment of your peers.

Law school is hard, and it will make you feel stupid and tongue-tied and like you don’t know anything and can’t form an argument—because you don’t, and you can’t. Everybody there has had a 4.0 since birth. Everybody there was the smartest kid in their class, and you’re all rabidly competing for a sliver of a chance at something down the road. It’s petty, and savage, fiercely entrenched in a culture of formalities and ceremony, and exactly like Washington DC.

Yesterday when I was driving home, the NPR reporter talking about the Oval Office meeting mentioned that Trump had thought it was going to be a “getting to know you” type meeting, but that he was surprised when Obama stretched their talk out to 90 minutes before sending him along to the Capitol building where he met with congressional leaders for more lengthy meetings and stuff he didn’t want to do.

And he hasn’t even gotten to the actual job yet.
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Anonymous 18/05/29(Tue)17:45 No. 801 ID: 7274a1

>>799
Mass media has been around since the 50's, but it used to have a censor for lies and inappropriate opinions.

Since the internet anybody can spread whatever bullshit they want about anything across the world and some people will believe it because they're stupid or biased or gullible or too lazy to do they're own research.

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Anonymous 18/05/30(Wed)20:24 No. 802 ID: ead321

>>801
Actually no, it really started in earnest in the 80s when the Fairness doctrine was abolished by Raygun. Without that the entire right wing media fantasy bubble would never have been allowed. The internet was just the cherry on top.

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Anonymous 24/11/29(Fri)22:49 No. 2437 ID: 92753a

If you are a law-abiding and responsible person who doesn't have any debt, you might totally lose respect for the government and laws if you get fined $30,000 for having an illegal flagpole.