The world has experienced its hottest day on record, according to meteorologists.

The average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F) on Monday, according to the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction.

The figure surpasses the previous record of 16.92C (62.46F) - set back in August 2016.

  • ericbomb@lemmy.world
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    I mean nonviolent protests DO work.

    Non-disruptive DOES NOT work though.

    MLK Jr didn’t peacefully sit in a park. They ran boycotts, sit ins, shut down streets, trespassed into white only areas, and drove businesses insane.

    If MLK Jr was your enemy you were going to have a miserable time when he rolled into town.

    Ghandi had people illegally burn documents and basically smuggled salt against all regulations.

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      MLK had the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam as looming threats. Gandhi is also the one who said “pacifism without violence is not pacifism, it is helplessness.” A violent counterpart to a non-violent movement helps by being the stick to the non-violent carrot.

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        That’s fair, but either way we gotta give up on this nondisruptive nonsense.

        Gathering on the park outside of the white house at a time they agreed to doesn’t do anything and why it’s encouraged.

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        See US Constitution, Amendment 2 for another example of backing peace with capability of violence to earn respect.

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            Especially since those guys are pretty much all lard-asses. There’s a reason why every competent military on the planet emphasizes physical fitness before anything else; it’s because real combat --as opposed to playing paintball with your fatbody friends-- is one of the most physically and psychologically punishing activities known to man.

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              Indeed. As 101st infantry alumni, I’m well aware. Having been on both sides, military combat arms and a civilian gun owner, I find the ‘defense against the government’ idea around the 2nd amendment to be laughable. If they thought you were an actual threat they’d drone strike you out of existence, and you’d be a bullet point on an after action report. They own us now and they know it, that’s why everything is going to shit, and it’s why we were warned about the rise of the IMC. If only my younger self had been educated about that, I may not have joined up. Hmmm maybe there’s a link there?!?! I wonder.

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                But it’s not about defending against the government. It’s about deterring the government. A pufferfish can’t defend against a shark, but by being spiky it deters the shark from attacking it.

                Surely they teach this distinction in military training?

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                  No they pretty much just taught us how to kill shit. In all seriousness, do you honestly believe that’s the case? That the US federal government is deterred by an armed public? Because I don’t think they give a shit, at all.

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                    I mean, with all the armor and shit they wear and the flashbangs and the speedy sweep through a building, it sure seems to me like they’re very conscious of the danger of going to get someone.

                    It takes a lot more work and preparation to go grab a US citizen than it does to go grab a pig. A farmer wants a particular pig he isn’t putting on armor and tossing flashbangs and going in with backup.

                    Yes, I think the federal government is deterred by an armed public. They don’t just casually fuck with people, like that military government in Myanmar fucked with its people. It’s a big deal for them, a costly affair, to go up against a house that might have guns in it, and they don’t take it lightly.

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                I think my old man had much the same, or at least somewhat similar thoughts, when he came home from Vietnam. He was a UH1 door-gunner/crew-chief with the 4th ID in the Central Highlands, survived being shot down, was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross, a purple heart, a fistful of air medals and came home with a giant chip on his shoulder.

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              That’s funny I thought catching a bullet was one of the most physically punishing activities known to man.

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                What’s funny is you getting defensive about it. Sounds like you might have a fitness issue yourself.

                I’m not saying that you necessarily are a “disgusting fatbody,” (to quote Gny. Sgt. Hartman,) but if you were, that’s exactly how you would react to the fact that every competent military on the planet demands high levels of physical fitness of their combat troops.

                It’s just a fact, my dude; you don’t last long in real combat if you’re heaving and gassed within the first 15 minutes.

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                  I do have a fitness issue. I was forced to stop working out for a couple of years due to a neurological condition. I’ve slowly worked up to the point of being able to hike with 15 lbs, without inducing insomnia or adrenaline rushes. It sucks balls.

                  Are you done attacking me personally now? Can we get on with the conversation?

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                    I’m not attacking you personally. Personally, I wish you nothing but the best.

                    What I’m attacking is the phony mythology that has thousands of fatbodies imagining that being heavily armed is somehow a valid and necessary counter to the possibility of government overreach.

                    It’s an objectively absurd and laughable proposition.

                    My dad served with the 4th ID in Vietnam, my grandfather fought from Guadalcanal to Okinawa where his war ended, and then he went on to fight in Korea and survived the clusterfuck that was the Chosin Reservoir.

                    My point is only that such men still exist in the US armed forces, and there is no universe in which “Fatbody Joe McGee” and his airsoft buddies stand a chance against them, no matter how heavily armed they think they are.

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            Nor am I quaking in my boots when someone is armed in the same room as me. But I’m not gonna fuck with that person.