Note: I have no intention of making one of these myself. (I don’t even have a 3D printer.) I am not a Class 1 FFL holder. So it is illegal (at the federal level) for me to make one. But if you hold a Class 1 FFL and you want to go through the ATF licensing BS, fire away. [I had a brain hiccough. It’s not a Class 3 FAL. Oy.]
It is NOT illegal to share the image and the file. That falls under 1A rights.
I’m proud of who I am. I’m proud of being a Jew. I’m proud of being a patriotic American and firearms owner. I’m proud of being a father and grandfather and of being a husband in a 25-year marriage with my lovely bride.
I’m not sorry if that’s not what you were expecting; because I’m also proud of not being an idiot liberal, socialist, or communist. America fuck yeah. G-d bless her!
A little food for thought. This paragraph used to be part of the Declaration of Principles of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, until 2005 when it was replaced by a statement regarding tyranny in general.
Masonry abhors Communism as being repugnant to its conception of the dignity of the individual personality, destructive of the basic human rights which are the Divine heritage of all men, and inimical to the fundamental Masonic tenet of faith in God.
It first appeared in that document in or around 1947, when it was adopted as a resolution by the Conference of Grand Masters of Masons in North America. I’m sure our Grand Secretary at the time was quick to have it added to our Declaration of Principles; he was death on communism.
Given the continued communist tyranny and genocides that followed 1947 and have lasted even into our own day, I wonder sometimes if we should have watered down our abhorrence of that very specific type of tyranny…
All humor aside, our Canadian friends have done one of two things:
Voted like fools for a socialist government headed by a fascist who will have them all in chains; or
Tolerated fraud of historic proportions (and as a friend noted, since they do all paper ballots, it would have to be analog fraud, not digital as we had in 2020).
Then, of course, there’s always
With any luck, Alberta will leave the Confederation and apply for statehood.
And all because they took offense at Donald Trump telling their communist former PM Castreau that Canada would be better off as the 51st State. This cartoon, depicting their new PM facing off against Trump, is apropos:
The problem is, this is Fucking Around on a grand scale. And now, undoubtedly, America’s Hat Canada will Find Out what … I won’t say “defying” the United States, but perhaps “ignoring” the United States … will get them going forward.
Because this is what they’ve already done:
Don’t get me wrong; I love Canada…at least some of their people are great, even if their country sucks…but at least one of those people I know of has already said this morning that he’s leaving for the US. And he lives in Alberta…
Pray for Canadians, y’all. Because Canada? Canada is toast.
It’s Chinese after all, but…you know how the Chinese have millions more young marriageable men than they do young marriageable women? You’d think women could have their choice of those young marriageable men, wouldn’t you?
Apparently, according to this video, you’d be wrong.
Zero in on the sections where the very eligible bachelors say why they’re not interested in the girls they’re set up with. And yes, this is Shanghai, so not Beijing or Guangzhou or anyplace else, and the video suggests this is a Shanghai problem more than elsewhere…but why do I doubt that?
So, yes, they have some stunningly beautiful women walking around loose over there, but that “stunningly beautiful” part comes with big-time baggage. The conclusion of the video (and I’m going to spoil it, but you should watch it anyway, it’s interesting to see the slice of life it shows) is that the young (and starting to age and get desperate) beautiful women of Shanghai are a bunch of spoiled little twits who are mercenary little golddiggers at best. They seem to think marriage is about the man keeping them in the style to which they’ve become accustomed, even though they’ve probably gone into debt and can barely house and feed themselves on what pittances they make in their department store or office jobs.
Note the one fellow who very practically points out that the girl only makes 8,000 yuan a month [ETA: 8,000 yuan is about US$1,100] but has fancy clothing and a very expensive name-brand handbag that’s either been gifted to her (probably by another boyfriend) or is a fake. And yet she’s the one badgering him about his job, and his pay, and his car, and his apartment, and his general lifestyle. He shuts her down pretty hard, but you know she learned nothing from his blunt assessment.
I will say that the men, for their part, have unrealistic expectations of these citified farm girls. A couple of them make the point that their families expect them to marry “pure” women. I.e., they don’t have a trail of ex-boyfriends, they are modest, they don’t go out clubbing, they don’t waste money on expensive cosmetics and gym memberships, they don’t have tattoos (and check out the chick they flash on the screen at that point — wow, honey, what a waste of money that must have been), they can cook and clean for themselves, and so forth. Oh, and the one guy made it clear that they had to have filial respect for their parents, which yeah, that’s a big thing in Asian culture, so you go guy.
What kills me is the matchmakers they talk to who are trying to fix these girls up know exactly what the problem is, but they can’t seem to convince the girls that they need to fix themselves and quit being such little bitches who only look at marriage as a way to be “kept” by a man who will be so appreciative that he’ll keep spoiling them for the rest of their lives.
Now, that all said, the real reason I’m posting about this is because it ties directly into the demographic decline the Chinese find themselves dogged by. It’s not just that there aren’t enough babies being born. And it’s not a factor of “too few women, too many men” though that is in fact an actual problem.
The problem (and I can’t believe it’s confined to Shanghai) is that the women are acting like they live in a society that’s the other way around — in other words, a shortage of men rather than a surplus. And the video hints at why that may be the case in the cities — the men come to the city, look at city life, say “no thanks,” and go back to jobs in the countryside. While the girls stay in the city, fighting grimly to keep up the facade of the good life while competing for the dwindling number of men who have the money to keep them spoiled.
Take THAT problem, add it to the “not enough babies” problem they already have due to the old One Child policies, and watch as the Chinese population ages out and craters. As if it hasn’t cratered already — there are plenty of demographers out there who think the Chinese population is a lot smaller than the official numbers would lead you to think.
I feel somewhat sorry for these girls, but in the end the problem is one of their own making. It’s not like there aren’t a potload more men than girls in China, and it’s not like it would be impossible for them to find husbands…except for their spoiled rotten attitude about what they want out of marriage. And the guys are very sensibly walking away from that bullshit.
Again, I don’t know how much credence to put into this video; it’s Chinese, so automatically suspect, but I don’t see why it would be necessary to lie about how critical the situation is — I’d be more likely to expect a coverup, so perhaps there’s more truth here than one would normally expect out of China.
