Ask them if they’ve read Ammon Bundy’s piece about immigration, and ask them what they think of it. Keep in mind that Bundy is pretty far right in almost every way, but almost all of his right-wing militia buddies have abandoned him on this.

IMO he’s arrived at the right conclusion, but his reasons–because god–are nonsense. It’s going to be interesting to see how his worldview changes as he realizes that most of the people that he thought were True Believers like him were only allies of convenience.

In my job, I need to use materials that have a mil spec; that means it’s literally military grade, but it’s just saying that it meets or exceeds a certain specification for X product that is used in the military in some way. IMO, if something says ‘military grade’, but isn’t listing the mil spec(s) that it complies to, then it’s essentially meaningless.

I do have a compass that I think was advertised as military grade. It’s the same lensatic compass that is currently used by the military (…when they aren’t using GPS…), except that it doesn’t use tritium on the face. The half-life of tritium is about a decade, so it didn’t seem like a great idea to pay a ton extra for something that would barely glow in the dark in 20 years or so.

I desperately wanted to get a degree in mechanical engineering so I could go to work for an arms company (like Heckler & Kock, FN Herstal, etc.). Never happened, got an art degree instead. Then I met a guy that owns a very small firearms company, and, well, yeesh. It’s a brutally hard business. He makes a good product, he has good morals and ethics, but the market is so saturated that anyone smaller than the largest arms companies are hemorrhaging money. Glad I didn’t try to live my dream now.

I may not like what governments do with arms, but good goddamn, the arms themselves are neat.

Pretty sure that HK-47 called humans meatbags.

I named a black cat Svartur. I also had a cat named Potet. (“Black” and “Potato” respectively.)