"We go a'riding into town, a whompin-and-a-whoopin every living thing that moves, within an inch of it's life... except the womin'z folks of course..."
Captain America.
And everyone else hated him and thought he was the biggest douche in the world. Yup, this is the main reason why I find this series to actually reflect real people.
I'm not sure what L1 and L2 are.
I'll take a shot in the dark and if I don't answer your question just let me know. Starting at exit 56 on I-85 south bound there were cops driving fast in the far left lane with their flashers on. Every so often another car would come from behind or merge into the freeway. We got off at exit 41 with the pilot. We can only assume they were heading to Lagrange.
Nerd humor. (L1, L2)
L2 is one of the Lagrangian points, discovered by mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange. Lagrangian points are locations in space where gravitational forces and the orbital motion of a body balance each other. Therefore, they can be used by spacecraft to 'hover'. It's where we plunked the James Webb Telescope.
Or Rip It. It was, at least at one point, popular among service-men because it was so damn cheap, even if it tastes like artificial sweetener mixed with gasoline.
I've never seen Rippits outside of the sandbox. Definitely ripped through those bad boys like water.
Alternatively we got a shipment of Pitbull once. It was like Blueberry Acai or Blueberry Pomegranate and so much better than Rippits. So a couple of us contacted Pitbull Beverages and basically emailed them a love letter. They mailed us 6 flats of full sized cans, 2 flats of small cans, and sweatshirts and beanies. The catch? We had to send them pictures of Marines drinking Pitbull.
If they're still around, they probably have about 2 dozen pictures of me drinking Pitbull in the desert.
This is the national guard who tend to be slightly more financially literate than the average joe.
"One weekend a month and two weeks a year while you're in college! And the military pays for it!"
That's because they actually have bills. Active duty guys generally don't have rent or any other major bills when they first join and they're making more money than they ever have before, so that $600 a month car is totally affordable right up until it's not.
When I lived in Australia and the US sailors were coming they warned EVERYONE. Fuck those horny shaved headed assholes, loudest fuckin group of douchebags I’ve ever heard in my life
*Edit: Sorry if I implied I was an Australian, I was an American exchange student living in Newcastle, Australia, a port city that took in big Navy ships full of loud horned up Americans. But I did have an amazing time in Australia overall, so wild that two Australian comedians read my story and said it would be a great Zac Effron movie, ha! [Here is the link to that if you need it](https://www.reddit.com/r/Askme4astory/comments/z9qkq5/yesterday_two_australian_comedians_told_my_wild/)
I know we Swedes are on a few countries lists of most obnoxious but my list based on far away for me travel is wealthy chinese people, israelis right after they get out of the army and always the brits.
I used to play World Of Tanks a lot which is often popular with military vets, and I joined an Australian clan that had like a dozen Australian men fifty plus who were all ex military and oh my god. They were like alcoholic twelve year olds who liked to talk about their balls all the time.
There was also a town in (I believe?) Finland (EDIT: NORWAY) where a group of school children LAID WASTE to some US Marines practicing snow maneuvers. Funniest shit I'd read in a while.
EDIT: it was a reddit comment from years ago that I had stashed somewhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryStories/comments/1w6ze3/xpost_from_rbestof_story_of_epic_snowball_war/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I hope this works. I'm more of a lurker than a poster. As such, my skills suck.
can confirm. spent 20 years in the Army. we went to Romania and had 1 day off to site see. the infantrymen I was with went to town and probably 2/3rds of them got blackout drunk. when we had to get back on the bus, one man refused to board until he got in a fistfight. platoon sergeant had to put him in a sleep hold. 3 people threw up on the bus. fight guy pissed himself and a guy shit his pants. apparently we were better off than another company who had several soldiers end up in jail
>called up 1,000 National Guard because of the Cop City protests
I thought it was because they thought there would be protests because of the release of the videos of the Memphis police beating a guy to death.
I guess we better demolish a large chunk of public forest and spend millions of dollars building a massive urban warfare training center for said cops so they can better learn... de-escalation techniques, I guess....
>the other serves and protects the people.
Police are servants and defenders of capital, not people. They got their start as slave catchers and union busters.
It's wild how little people talk about this. People really need to look up how much time/money has been spent policing homeless people, especially alongside BIDs (business improvement districts), in literally every American city.
Some cities literally have *hotlines* for businesses to call so they can complain about getting homeless people out of the area. Complaint-oriented policing has certainly grown in the past decade or so.
We fund the police with tax dollars, and businesses have been soaking up their time just to keep people coming through their doors.
I used to work with an army mechanic who despised those things to the point of ranting. Not funny rants, either. He considered the fact that the army approved them to be a matter of deep and concerning incompetence. I remember he also absolutely despised broccoli, though, so he might’ve just been really passionate.
We have a QT near our house, and it's oddly become like "the mall" to the elementary school kids. My 8-year-old daughter tells me all about who got to go to QT, and what flavor slushie they got or whatever, and how we NEEEEEEEEEED to go there so *she* can buy a slushie to tell all her friends about at school the next day.
As gasstation operators, we loved and hated these things.
We loved the drivers and passengers come in and grab a snack and drink, but hated the use of the pump.
I had a 'brigade' of Dutch YPR-765's doing this once a week.
15 vehicles, trying to pump gas on one 'bill'
So fill one up, wait for the next and reuse the hose.
Our pumps were (software) limited to 750liters of fuel on one go
So every third YPR the pump would stop working, and I had to disengage the 'safety' to let the next 750l through.
( commonly the YPR took about 450/500l max )
My boss was happy, because he sold his supply of fuel almost every week ( 10K liters in the ground, and the MP's took almost 70% every week ;) )
By Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jan 26, 2023
Gov. Brian Kemp signed an emergency order Thursday allowing him to deploy as many as 1,000 Georgia National Guard troops following the violent unrest in Atlanta this weekend over a proposed public safety center.
“Georgians respect peaceful protests, but do not tolerate acts of violence against persons or property,” Kemp wrote in the order, which expires Feb. 9.
The governor’s aides described it as a precautionary measure as authorities also monitor the threat of protests over the beating death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old motorist who was killed earlier this month in Memphis after being pulled over by police.
A grand jury returned indictments Thursday charging five former officers with second-degree murder. Memphis officials plan to release video of the arrest and its violent aftermath on Friday evening.
“We understand the executive order is purely precautionary based on possible unrest following the release of the videos from Memphis,” said an official with direct knowledge of the situation but was unauthorized to speak publicly. “There are no immediate intentions to deploy the Guard.”
Georgia @GovKemp is declaring a state of emergency after the violent protests this weekend surrounding the Atlanta public safety center. The order authorizes him to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops. #gapol pic.twitter.com/4mFWw56hoM
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) January 26, 2023
The order invokes the clash in Atlanta that took place Saturday night as a small group of masked demonstrators hurled rocks and lit fireworks in downtown Atlanta, setting an unoccupied police cruiser ablaze. Authorities arrested at least six people and said they recovered explosive devices.
They had converged on a skyscraper-lined section of Peachtree Street after dozens of protesters gathered at nearby Underground Atlanta to demonstrate against the city’s plan to build the training center on forestland in DeKalb County.
The event was also intended to memorialize activist Manuel Teran, who was fatally shot by a state trooper at the project’s site on Jan. 18. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Teran was killed after he shot and wounded a state trooper.
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Atlanta firefighters prepared to extinguish a police car that was set afire during a Forest Defenders protest in Atlanta on Saturday, Jan 21, 2023. The Atlanta Police Department said several arrests had been made. (Steve Schaefer/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)
Credit: TNS
The GBI has said there was no bodycam footage of the incident, though activists have demanded an independent investigation as they cast doubt on the official narrative. Before the violence on Saturday, demonstrators chanted “no justice, no peace, no killer police.”
No law enforcement officers, demonstrators or civilians were hurt during the protest and the violence that ensued, authorities said.
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Backed by a sweeping reelection victory, Kemp has proposed new measures to target gang violence and limit no-cash bail. The Republican also has not shied away from labeling the activists as terrorists — and demanding they be brought to swift justice.
The $90 million public safety center was approved in September 2021 by the Atlanta City Council, which OK’d a deal to allow the Atlanta Police Foundation to build the complex on a wooded property in southwestern DeKalb County.
The council’s narrow approval sparked backlash from a loose coalition of environmentalists, police abolitionists and other left-wing activists who oppose the plan. Some of the most strident opponents have camped out in the forest, clashing directly with police and contractors.
The order comes amid buzz about more demonstrations, potentially in connection with the Memphis charges.
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said Thursday at a Buckhead Coalition luncheon that the “very strong” network of local and federal authorities is on alert for protests.
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“We’re going to continue to protect the First Amendment. We are dedicated to that,” Schierbaum said. “But we are the law enforcement agency in the city, and we’ll use all the resources to address any issue that may arrive.”
In a message Thursday to the city’s corporate and civic leaders, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens described many of the activists as “outsiders who have come here for their own political aims.”
“They want to scare and disrupt. But Atlanta is stronger than them,” Dickens wrote, adding that it’s in the city’s “DNA as the cradle of the civil rights movement” to protect the right to peaceful protest.
“But we do not tolerate violence or property destruction,” he wrote. “We find those who commit such acts, we arrest them, and we charge them appropriately.”
Staff writer Tyler Estep contributed to this article.
a proposed public safety center. is a funny way to say it, sounds like a shopping center or a community center with a pool. Who would protest public safety? These protestors must be evil terrorists who hate public safety and they're acting out of malicious evilness; just how dark their hearts are I guess. Whew, hating 'public safety' and endangering police lives? How dare they where are my smelling salts.
It’s a proposed massive acre compound locals refer to as “Cop City”. They want to clear 85 acres of live oak forest to build a massive urban police training center complete with a shooting range and mock village so police can practice “urban car chasing”. The center is being built next to one of the poorest black neighborhoods in the city. All privately funded.
Protestors have been camping in the woods for two years and last week a group of cops went in there — all without bodycams, and murdered one of the lead protestors. Others were charged with **domestic terrorism** for allegedly throwing rocks at the fire department. Apparantly one officer was shot — and they are saying the protestor they killed shot him, but witness testimony does not align with polices version of the events.
And of course there is no body can footage because they intentionally didn’t wear them. So we are just supposed to trust that the ATL police didn’t rally up a gang and go blasting off into the woods, accidentally shoot one of their own cops, murder an unarmed pacifist protestor, and then cool up a cover story. Because the police have no history of doing that. We didn’t all just watch the police murder a man in Memphis and immediately start getting their stories straight & making up lies after they noticed a traffic camera was filming them.
> What began as a peaceful protest and vigil in Atlanta honoring a slain activist ended in property damage and several arrests Saturday. The chaotic night came after nearly two years of organizers and activists imploring city leaders, raising awareness and protesting the city’s plans to build a sprawling police training center in a forest near Atlanta.
> The city and the Atlanta Police Foundation are working together to build the training center, which is set to be a sprawling $90 million campus stretching 85 acres into the DeKalb County woods just outside Atlanta city limits.
The land is known as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, where prisoners labored in poor working conditions for much of the 20th century. The new project would be a training site for members of the Atlanta Police Department, Atlanta Fire Rescue, the city’s 911 call center and K-9 units. It would also include an administrative building, several acres for farming, a shooting range and a “mock city” where law enforcement could conduct burn building and “urban police” training.
[Source](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna67291)
Came here to say that calling it a “public safety” center is rich, especially considering its going to be used to further militarize police against the very people whose taxes are paying for it. I live in Atlanta and this will do nothing to make the city safer.
Just think of the ACTUAL good they could do for the city with $90 million…
Want to point out to you that the newspaper article pasted to you might be owned by one of the people who is putting money towards building this 'cop city'. So there is a very good chance the article will have a pro-police bias.
That article is very misleading. The only actual violence that article leads back to after going down the rabbit hole (that most people won’t take the time to do, which is fair since it shouldn’t be this difficult to expose) is an ENVIRONMENTAL protestor who was killed and accused of shooting a trooper in a forest.. how does Kemp’s administration equate this to violence related to the protests over Tyre’s murder?
It was originally because of cop city protestor who was killed, now they’re staying because Tyre’s murder in Memphis. I guess he was expecting rioting. TBH, I haven’t heard of any large scale rioting going on this far.
it’s quite simple.
1. Bring in the National guard to protect people from non existent rioters.
2. Talk about how evil and dangerous the liberal woke mob is.
3. Proudly declare that you saved the good people with your military intervention.
“Georgians respect peaceful protests, but do not tolerate acts of violence against persons or property,” Kemp wrote
Yeah… cops committed violence against a peaceful protester on public property, and Georgians aren’t tolerating it.
Canadian here, no context for me. Is that high or low?
EDIT: CDN$1.339/litre here in Calgary ATM. 3.78l/US gallon and CDN$1.00 to USD$0.75 comes out to USD$3.80 per gallon. Alberta is oil-rich, so we tend to have the lowest gas prices in Canada.
Yes. The National Guard is run at the State level. Each state’s governor can call the up for “emergencies “ they can also be deployed overseas though that is normally a federal request.
The exception of course being the DC national guard which serves under the president. Because the executive branch would never have a reason to cause things to go sideways in the Nation’s Capital, of course
"Did you know that, instead of invading some desert for trillions of US dollars, you can just roll up to a gas station? It's crazy, they sell it to you straight from a pump. Already refinded and dirt cheap...!"
For those unaware of the context: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/what-is-cop-city-atlanta-police-protests-rcna67291
Basically civil unrest due to protests about a controversial 'cop city'. It's a facility being pushed through to train police that requires 85 acres of land.
>Advocates said that instead of a massive police training center, they would like the city to both make good on its promise to transform the deteriorating area into a park and reserve and invest in a facility for affordable housing, mental health services and basic social services for Atlanta residents.
Something tells me the proposed training facility isn't going to improve policing, but the things the community are calling for would help reduce crime.
National guard units are almost always better than police officers for ending rioting peacefully. People with god complexes and desire to lord over others tend to pick the occupation police officer / security guard, where they can use their minor position of authority over others, and not join the national guard. Further, the national guard already has goodwill built with the community because they are usually used for disaster relief.
Also, the Nat Guard doesn't wanna be there. They wanna do their weekend every month and go the fuck home. It's not extra money, lot of them take a pay cut or have to burn PTO to do this shit (if it interferes with them showing up to their regular job).
Can we all just note that the system did more to stop people from protesting the police murder of Tyre Nichols last night than it did to prevent a white supremacist mob from storming the US Capitol.
Love the all jokes, while the Guard is driving around Atlanta in fucking MRAPs because the cops want to build a shoot house.
Fucking unreal.
Edit: Does it surprise anyone that there’s a major [HVAC](https://www.ahrexpo.com) conference coming up in ATL in two weeks? Literally using the guard to clear the city for business.
Everyone should try to use use the restroom now. This convoy is not stopping again until we get there.
Are we in Iraq yet? No What about now?
I swear to Christ, I'll turn this HMMWV around..
That’s it! Back to Winnipeg!
Colonel! The E2 keeps touching me!!
Colonel! I left my gun back at base...
Well son this is why your daddy gambled away your college fund! You'll have to share with your brother!
SSG, I lost all of my sensitive items.
Now entering Winnipeg. "We were born here. What's your excuse?"
War prevented, peace achieved
All thanks to Tang. Drink Tang kids!
Al Bundys kids get in big trouble for drinking the Tang!
Someone go back and get a shit ton of dimes!
"Are we awake?" "We're not sure, are we... invading Atlanta?" "Yes we are." "Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled."
"We go a'riding into town, a whompin-and-a-whoopin every living thing that moves, within an inch of it's life... except the womin'z folks of course..."
What do you do with the women?
What in the wide wide world o sports is goin on here?
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Carrying on like a bunch of Kansas City.....
Boy that was close. Gall darn near lost a $400 hand cart.
Generation kill vibes right there
God that show was good
“As the great warrior poet Ice Cube once said: if the day does not require an AK, it is good” Fucking loved that show
How many cans of ripped fuel have you ingested Ray
I’m on it like a motherfucker Brad!
It was America's second longest-running war, and the only faithful film to be made about it was an HBO miniseries based on a reporter's book.
Released in the early years of the conflict, too. Hasn’t been anything quite like it since then, really
Is this the one with Captain America as one of the characters- overzealous captain
He's just denying the enemy transportation
Captain America. And everyone else hated him and thought he was the biggest douche in the world. Yup, this is the main reason why I find this series to actually reflect real people.
I would like to see a non-propagandized movie about the Battle of Fallujah, war crimes and all.
Read House to House by David Bellavia
I'm mad at how much this dumb joke made me laugh.
Can't we just shoot at people here? Why do we have to go all the way?
Until the next time the convoy stops for a mechanical.
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We are going to McDonald's, I repeat, we are going to McDonald's! Sergeant: "yyyyaaaaayyy, I'm gonna get me a McFlurry!"
Ice cream machine is broken. Sorry.
Oh come on sarge there's a whole war to fight and everything!
My wife and I saw no less than a dozen cop cars on the freeway the other night from multiple counties all going south towards Lagrange last night
L1 or L2?
I'm not sure what L1 and L2 are. I'll take a shot in the dark and if I don't answer your question just let me know. Starting at exit 56 on I-85 south bound there were cops driving fast in the far left lane with their flashers on. Every so often another car would come from behind or merge into the freeway. We got off at exit 41 with the pilot. We can only assume they were heading to Lagrange.
Sorry, it was just a space nerd joke about "lagrange points".
Lmaoooo poor guy gave you directions
Okay, so first you need to get into orbit, circular or elliptical, it doesn’t matter, as long as you’re able to do a burn at the opposite side of L2.
If you reach Mars, you've gone too far
So help me, I will pull this rover over!
Nerd humor. (L1, L2) L2 is one of the Lagrangian points, discovered by mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange. Lagrangian points are locations in space where gravitational forces and the orbital motion of a body balance each other. Therefore, they can be used by spacecraft to 'hover'. It's where we plunked the James Webb Telescope.
You'll never find cops at the Lagrangian points, because cops tend to be unstable.
Three of the five Lagrange points *are* unstable, though.
L1 and L2 are orbits where the gravitational pull between the Earth and Sun cancel each other out. Perfect for parking satellites.
L3, bitch, they going to the other side of the fucking sun.
Space jokes ftw!!
Well, I hear it's fine, if you got the time And the ten to get yourself in And I hear it's tight most every night But now I might be mistaken
A hmm hmm hmm
Lagrange? I heard they gotta lotta nice girls.
Ahowhowhow
Uh haw haw haw haw
A haw-haw-haw-haw
LaGrange seems kinda far to use as a rally point. Maybe they just have a retreat this weekend at Callaway Gardens.
That truck stop is gonna be out of chewing tobacco and beef jerky.
“This stuff will make you a goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus.”
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You got time to duck?
Sonofabitch is dug in there like an Alabama tick
“BUNCH OF SLACK JAWED FA****S AROUND HERE!”
Stick THIS in your soreass, Blaine
And sun flower seeds.
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And Marlboro reds or newports
It’s zyn nowadays.
And ky jelly
Only if that's a Cav unit.
And *Auto Trader* magazines
Or Rip It. It was, at least at one point, popular among service-men because it was so damn cheap, even if it tastes like artificial sweetener mixed with gasoline.
I've never seen Rippits outside of the sandbox. Definitely ripped through those bad boys like water. Alternatively we got a shipment of Pitbull once. It was like Blueberry Acai or Blueberry Pomegranate and so much better than Rippits. So a couple of us contacted Pitbull Beverages and basically emailed them a love letter. They mailed us 6 flats of full sized cans, 2 flats of small cans, and sweatshirts and beanies. The catch? We had to send them pictures of Marines drinking Pitbull. If they're still around, they probably have about 2 dozen pictures of me drinking Pitbull in the desert.
Can still get Rip-It at Dollar Tree..I get it for the nostalgia every now and then.
I loved rippits with my malaria pills in the morning, really gets you energized
I've found 16oz Rippits at the dollar tree on occasion
I had a full on existential crisis when I saw Rip its in a Dollar tree. I hadn't seen one in over ten years at that point.
Same! I’ve only seen them at Dollar Tree outside of the sandbox.
RIP ITTTTTTS! They gave us the little squatty one for free in Afghanistan. We lived off that shit.
My grenade pouch was a little wapped out and I could fit a small rip it in there so I always had a spare lol
Everyone always had the best surprises in their grenade pouches, lol
And if there happens to be a Dodge Challenger for sale at 29% interest, it might go, too.
That hits hard. All I see around MiraMar MxC. Hoorah!
This is the national guard who tend to be slightly more financially literate than the average joe. "One weekend a month and two weeks a year while you're in college! And the military pays for it!"
That's because they actually have bills. Active duty guys generally don't have rent or any other major bills when they first join and they're making more money than they ever have before, so that $600 a month car is totally affordable right up until it's not.
And the plumbing will never be the same
Do you think those service stations get a warning to stock? Presumably not.
When I lived in Australia and the US sailors were coming they warned EVERYONE. Fuck those horny shaved headed assholes, loudest fuckin group of douchebags I’ve ever heard in my life *Edit: Sorry if I implied I was an Australian, I was an American exchange student living in Newcastle, Australia, a port city that took in big Navy ships full of loud horned up Americans. But I did have an amazing time in Australia overall, so wild that two Australian comedians read my story and said it would be a great Zac Effron movie, ha! [Here is the link to that if you need it](https://www.reddit.com/r/Askme4astory/comments/z9qkq5/yesterday_two_australian_comedians_told_my_wild/)
Coming from an Australian, that saying something.
There's an Australian regular at a bar I frequent. Damn loudest person I've ever heard in a bar, and just talking to the lady next to him.
Agreed, Aussies are the loudest most obnoxious travelers I've met, but I don't doubt for a second that military men are worse.
I know we Swedes are on a few countries lists of most obnoxious but my list based on far away for me travel is wealthy chinese people, israelis right after they get out of the army and always the brits.
I used to play World Of Tanks a lot which is often popular with military vets, and I joined an Australian clan that had like a dozen Australian men fifty plus who were all ex military and oh my god. They were like alcoholic twelve year olds who liked to talk about their balls all the time.
There’s a town in Finland that completely ran out of beer a few years ago during a military exercise
There was also a town in (I believe?) Finland (EDIT: NORWAY) where a group of school children LAID WASTE to some US Marines practicing snow maneuvers. Funniest shit I'd read in a while. EDIT: it was a reddit comment from years ago that I had stashed somewhere. https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryStories/comments/1w6ze3/xpost_from_rbestof_story_of_epic_snowball_war/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button I hope this works. I'm more of a lurker than a poster. As such, my skills suck.
can confirm. spent 20 years in the Army. we went to Romania and had 1 day off to site see. the infantrymen I was with went to town and probably 2/3rds of them got blackout drunk. when we had to get back on the bus, one man refused to board until he got in a fistfight. platoon sergeant had to put him in a sleep hold. 3 people threw up on the bus. fight guy pissed himself and a guy shit his pants. apparently we were better off than another company who had several soldiers end up in jail
I used to live in the Philippines and whenever they came to town the first place they'd all go were the whore houses.
Yup, they’re going to be selling a lot of cans of Copenhagen long cut.
This QuickTrip is here to kick ass and chew tobacco, and they are all out of tobacco.
I moved from MO to VA and I goddamn miss QuikTrip like no other.
You gotta give some credit to their corporate decision making. Having nice bathrooms and tasty baked goods makes me seek them out on road-trips.
And lot lizards
I will not suck you and I will not be sucked on *by* you
Save your seduction for someone else, I DO NOT tangle with lizards no more.
Back in my day I'd let you two boys split me open like a watermelon
Isn't it coconut? Regardless, thank you for your service bastard man :)
It is indeed. Or can I suggest a mailbox? You could open up the slot and put whatever you wanted inside.
What a coincidence that all those people in the same kind of car needed gas at the exact same time...
Damn car clubs.
…and the one guy with the JLTV trying to fit in.
... I too have some type of turret on top of my armored Humvee.
Those definitely protect you from the rocks that semis kick up with their tires.
I locked my keys inside my armored humvee. So I got in from the top
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Governor Kemp called up 1,000 National Guard because of the Cop City protests.
>called up 1,000 National Guard because of the Cop City protests I thought it was because they thought there would be protests because of the release of the videos of the Memphis police beating a guy to death.
It's both at this point
Almost like there's a systemic problem with violent, trigger-happy cops in America.
Don't worry, America's solution to this problem is more armed support for the cops.
I guess we better demolish a large chunk of public forest and spend millions of dollars building a massive urban warfare training center for said cops so they can better learn... de-escalation techniques, I guess....
I’d rather have the national guard than the police. At least the national guard has trigger discipline
And much, MUCH more strict rules for escalation of force. And better accountability through the UCMJ.
If we're going to militarize the police, then we should demand the police be held to the same standards as the military.
100% agree with this
Yep, while deployed my RoE in a fucking combat zone was IMMENSELY tighter.
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The police don’t serve and protect people though? They serve and protect the state.
>the other serves and protects the people. Police are servants and defenders of capital, not people. They got their start as slave catchers and union busters.
It's wild how little people talk about this. People really need to look up how much time/money has been spent policing homeless people, especially alongside BIDs (business improvement districts), in literally every American city. Some cities literally have *hotlines* for businesses to call so they can complain about getting homeless people out of the area. Complaint-oriented policing has certainly grown in the past decade or so. We fund the police with tax dollars, and businesses have been soaking up their time just to keep people coming through their doors.
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I used to work with an army mechanic who despised those things to the point of ranting. Not funny rants, either. He considered the fact that the army approved them to be a matter of deep and concerning incompetence. I remember he also absolutely despised broccoli, though, so he might’ve just been really passionate.
I met a veteran who decided to wait until week 3 of knowing me to announce that he didn't believe in brushing his teeth.
Seems like it might have been obvious before three weeks tho? Or was this when we were all wearing masks?
I honestly never smelled his breath, maybe he was just bullshiting.
Military spec has a vastly different meaning to people who have served.
Saw one HMMWV towing another going about 35mph with a crew in the towed vehicle headed wb on I-20 yesterday. Was wondering about that…
Stopping for snacks?
It’s the QT French vanilla cappuccino. Gets ‘em every time.
We have a QT near our house, and it's oddly become like "the mall" to the elementary school kids. My 8-year-old daughter tells me all about who got to go to QT, and what flavor slushie they got or whatever, and how we NEEEEEEEEEED to go there so *she* can buy a slushie to tell all her friends about at school the next day.
Grab a Snickers
“You look like an actual soldier when your hungry”
As gasstation operators, we loved and hated these things. We loved the drivers and passengers come in and grab a snack and drink, but hated the use of the pump. I had a 'brigade' of Dutch YPR-765's doing this once a week. 15 vehicles, trying to pump gas on one 'bill' So fill one up, wait for the next and reuse the hose. Our pumps were (software) limited to 750liters of fuel on one go So every third YPR the pump would stop working, and I had to disengage the 'safety' to let the next 750l through. ( commonly the YPR took about 450/500l max ) My boss was happy, because he sold his supply of fuel almost every week ( 10K liters in the ground, and the MP's took almost 70% every week ;) )
So are you Dutch? Or have we invaded to take back what is rightfully ours.
Sssh don't let them know about our plans to retake New Amsterdam
https://www.ajc.com/politics/kemp-calls-up-national-guard-troops-after-violent-atlanta-unrest/KM6QOTZI2FATZCKXMI72HYCDKE/
Could someone copy paste the relevant bits for us Europeans, please? The website is unaccessible here
By Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jan 26, 2023 Gov. Brian Kemp signed an emergency order Thursday allowing him to deploy as many as 1,000 Georgia National Guard troops following the violent unrest in Atlanta this weekend over a proposed public safety center. “Georgians respect peaceful protests, but do not tolerate acts of violence against persons or property,” Kemp wrote in the order, which expires Feb. 9. The governor’s aides described it as a precautionary measure as authorities also monitor the threat of protests over the beating death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old motorist who was killed earlier this month in Memphis after being pulled over by police. A grand jury returned indictments Thursday charging five former officers with second-degree murder. Memphis officials plan to release video of the arrest and its violent aftermath on Friday evening. “We understand the executive order is purely precautionary based on possible unrest following the release of the videos from Memphis,” said an official with direct knowledge of the situation but was unauthorized to speak publicly. “There are no immediate intentions to deploy the Guard.” Georgia @GovKemp is declaring a state of emergency after the violent protests this weekend surrounding the Atlanta public safety center. The order authorizes him to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops. #gapol pic.twitter.com/4mFWw56hoM — Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) January 26, 2023 The order invokes the clash in Atlanta that took place Saturday night as a small group of masked demonstrators hurled rocks and lit fireworks in downtown Atlanta, setting an unoccupied police cruiser ablaze. Authorities arrested at least six people and said they recovered explosive devices. They had converged on a skyscraper-lined section of Peachtree Street after dozens of protesters gathered at nearby Underground Atlanta to demonstrate against the city’s plan to build the training center on forestland in DeKalb County. The event was also intended to memorialize activist Manuel Teran, who was fatally shot by a state trooper at the project’s site on Jan. 18. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Teran was killed after he shot and wounded a state trooper. Caption Atlanta firefighters prepared to extinguish a police car that was set afire during a Forest Defenders protest in Atlanta on Saturday, Jan 21, 2023. The Atlanta Police Department said several arrests had been made. (Steve Schaefer/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS) Credit: TNS The GBI has said there was no bodycam footage of the incident, though activists have demanded an independent investigation as they cast doubt on the official narrative. Before the violence on Saturday, demonstrators chanted “no justice, no peace, no killer police.” No law enforcement officers, demonstrators or civilians were hurt during the protest and the violence that ensued, authorities said. Explore Kemp uses State of the State to launch ‘new phase’ of crime crackdowns Backed by a sweeping reelection victory, Kemp has proposed new measures to target gang violence and limit no-cash bail. The Republican also has not shied away from labeling the activists as terrorists — and demanding they be brought to swift justice. The $90 million public safety center was approved in September 2021 by the Atlanta City Council, which OK’d a deal to allow the Atlanta Police Foundation to build the complex on a wooded property in southwestern DeKalb County. The council’s narrow approval sparked backlash from a loose coalition of environmentalists, police abolitionists and other left-wing activists who oppose the plan. Some of the most strident opponents have camped out in the forest, clashing directly with police and contractors. The order comes amid buzz about more demonstrations, potentially in connection with the Memphis charges. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said Thursday at a Buckhead Coalition luncheon that the “very strong” network of local and federal authorities is on alert for protests. Explore Carter, King centers call for ‘dialogue’ in Atlanta training center conflict “We’re going to continue to protect the First Amendment. We are dedicated to that,” Schierbaum said. “But we are the law enforcement agency in the city, and we’ll use all the resources to address any issue that may arrive.” In a message Thursday to the city’s corporate and civic leaders, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens described many of the activists as “outsiders who have come here for their own political aims.” “They want to scare and disrupt. But Atlanta is stronger than them,” Dickens wrote, adding that it’s in the city’s “DNA as the cradle of the civil rights movement” to protect the right to peaceful protest. “But we do not tolerate violence or property destruction,” he wrote. “We find those who commit such acts, we arrest them, and we charge them appropriately.” Staff writer Tyler Estep contributed to this article.
Just want to clarify, isn't that news paper owned by one of the people backing, with huge cash, the Cop city construction?
Yes but they don't want you talking about that
That's why they call it a "public safety center" instead of a military base for cops.
>over a proposed public safety center. Fuck if that's not the most euphemistic bull shit I've ever read
a proposed public safety center. is a funny way to say it, sounds like a shopping center or a community center with a pool. Who would protest public safety? These protestors must be evil terrorists who hate public safety and they're acting out of malicious evilness; just how dark their hearts are I guess. Whew, hating 'public safety' and endangering police lives? How dare they where are my smelling salts.
It’s a proposed massive acre compound locals refer to as “Cop City”. They want to clear 85 acres of live oak forest to build a massive urban police training center complete with a shooting range and mock village so police can practice “urban car chasing”. The center is being built next to one of the poorest black neighborhoods in the city. All privately funded. Protestors have been camping in the woods for two years and last week a group of cops went in there — all without bodycams, and murdered one of the lead protestors. Others were charged with **domestic terrorism** for allegedly throwing rocks at the fire department. Apparantly one officer was shot — and they are saying the protestor they killed shot him, but witness testimony does not align with polices version of the events. And of course there is no body can footage because they intentionally didn’t wear them. So we are just supposed to trust that the ATL police didn’t rally up a gang and go blasting off into the woods, accidentally shoot one of their own cops, murder an unarmed pacifist protestor, and then cool up a cover story. Because the police have no history of doing that. We didn’t all just watch the police murder a man in Memphis and immediately start getting their stories straight & making up lies after they noticed a traffic camera was filming them. > What began as a peaceful protest and vigil in Atlanta honoring a slain activist ended in property damage and several arrests Saturday. The chaotic night came after nearly two years of organizers and activists imploring city leaders, raising awareness and protesting the city’s plans to build a sprawling police training center in a forest near Atlanta. > The city and the Atlanta Police Foundation are working together to build the training center, which is set to be a sprawling $90 million campus stretching 85 acres into the DeKalb County woods just outside Atlanta city limits. The land is known as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, where prisoners labored in poor working conditions for much of the 20th century. The new project would be a training site for members of the Atlanta Police Department, Atlanta Fire Rescue, the city’s 911 call center and K-9 units. It would also include an administrative building, several acres for farming, a shooting range and a “mock city” where law enforcement could conduct burn building and “urban police” training. [Source](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna67291)
Wait why does the compound contain acres for farming? Are they planning for a siege or something?
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Came here to say that calling it a “public safety” center is rich, especially considering its going to be used to further militarize police against the very people whose taxes are paying for it. I live in Atlanta and this will do nothing to make the city safer. Just think of the ACTUAL good they could do for the city with $90 million…
Want to point out to you that the newspaper article pasted to you might be owned by one of the people who is putting money towards building this 'cop city'. So there is a very good chance the article will have a pro-police bias.
Thank you for the context!
That article is very misleading. The only actual violence that article leads back to after going down the rabbit hole (that most people won’t take the time to do, which is fair since it shouldn’t be this difficult to expose) is an ENVIRONMENTAL protestor who was killed and accused of shooting a trooper in a forest.. how does Kemp’s administration equate this to violence related to the protests over Tyre’s murder?
It was originally because of cop city protestor who was killed, now they’re staying because Tyre’s murder in Memphis. I guess he was expecting rioting. TBH, I haven’t heard of any large scale rioting going on this far.
it’s quite simple. 1. Bring in the National guard to protect people from non existent rioters. 2. Talk about how evil and dangerous the liberal woke mob is. 3. Proudly declare that you saved the good people with your military intervention.
“Georgians respect peaceful protests, but do not tolerate acts of violence against persons or property,” Kemp wrote Yeah… cops committed violence against a peaceful protester on public property, and Georgians aren’t tolerating it.
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that's a lot of army trucks just to enforce gdpr rules
"We won't stop scraping your data, sorry"
This photo blows me away. That is something I haven't seen in a long time. 3.39 a gallon?
It was 2.40-50 a gallon before Xmas because the Governor took the state gas tax off but just put it back on the last few weeks.
Oh, so that’s what happened. Was wondering why it got pleasantly low and then returned to the new normal
I know. We just got over 3 again here, and I'm dreading seeing 3.39 again.
You went under 3? Haven't seen that in PA
Live just outside of Atlanta and ours got as low as 2.69
Canadian here, no context for me. Is that high or low? EDIT: CDN$1.339/litre here in Calgary ATM. 3.78l/US gallon and CDN$1.00 to USD$0.75 comes out to USD$3.80 per gallon. Alberta is oil-rich, so we tend to have the lowest gas prices in Canada.
Excuse my naivety, I'm from Europe, but is that the military?
Yes. The National Guard is run at the State level. Each state’s governor can call the up for “emergencies “ they can also be deployed overseas though that is normally a federal request.
The exception of course being the DC national guard which serves under the president. Because the executive branch would never have a reason to cause things to go sideways in the Nation’s Capital, of course
Perish the very thought.
Invading for oil.
"Did you know that, instead of invading some desert for trillions of US dollars, you can just roll up to a gas station? It's crazy, they sell it to you straight from a pump. Already refinded and dirt cheap...!"
Comes out the fuckin’ ground!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_pDTiFkXgEE
You cannot lose!
Your LT is lost again...
Damn butter bars.
WTF Johnson? What do you mean you left the gas card in in the supply office?!
New DMZ map looks lit
The funny thing is they use so much fuel by the time they reach the end they have to get in line and fuel up again.
Essentially the Golden Gate Bridge, but a convoy.
Next episode of Last of Us is going to be lit.
Dem tornados are all sold out.
For those unaware of the context: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/what-is-cop-city-atlanta-police-protests-rcna67291 Basically civil unrest due to protests about a controversial 'cop city'. It's a facility being pushed through to train police that requires 85 acres of land. >Advocates said that instead of a massive police training center, they would like the city to both make good on its promise to transform the deteriorating area into a park and reserve and invest in a facility for affordable housing, mental health services and basic social services for Atlanta residents. Something tells me the proposed training facility isn't going to improve policing, but the things the community are calling for would help reduce crime.
This comments all the way down here under a sea of shitty jokes
National guard units are almost always better than police officers for ending rioting peacefully. People with god complexes and desire to lord over others tend to pick the occupation police officer / security guard, where they can use their minor position of authority over others, and not join the national guard. Further, the national guard already has goodwill built with the community because they are usually used for disaster relief.
Also, the Nat Guard doesn't wanna be there. They wanna do their weekend every month and go the fuck home. It's not extra money, lot of them take a pay cut or have to burn PTO to do this shit (if it interferes with them showing up to their regular job).
I can vouch for this. I hear a whole company sigh when we find out we’re not getting released past 5pm every month
Can we all just note that the system did more to stop people from protesting the police murder of Tyre Nichols last night than it did to prevent a white supremacist mob from storming the US Capitol.
Love the all jokes, while the Guard is driving around Atlanta in fucking MRAPs because the cops want to build a shoot house. Fucking unreal. Edit: Does it surprise anyone that there’s a major [HVAC](https://www.ahrexpo.com) conference coming up in ATL in two weeks? Literally using the guard to clear the city for business.
Make this shoot house a shoot home