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May 21, 2021 Kim du Toit The Gun Thing

I have often said that a .22 rifle is not a firearm, but a household appliance and should be treated as such (e.g. Aisle 6 at Walmart, no 4473 no nothing except maybe proof of age over 16).

However, the “guns as household items” concept can always be stretched, as this man proves:

As I said to Combat Controller (who sent me the pic), at least it’s just a Norinco SKS, so no harm done. Had he done it to a Garand or similar, he might well have received a few visitors — and not prospective buyers, either.

Funny as hell, though. Almost as funny as this video…

Wot ‘E Said

May 21, 2021 Kim du Toit Elections

My only addition would be that I want mandatory prison sentences both for those who voted illegally, and those who enabled them to do so.

Caption Competition #178

May 21, 2021 Kim du Toit Captions, Friday Feature

Your suggestions in Comments.

Radio Silence

May 20, 2021 Kim du Toit Bad News

Damn, damn and damn. I was at our apartment and everything looks fine for a move back later today… except that the wifi isn’t working yet, ergo no Internet ergo no posts for a while.

I have a couple up for tomorrow (I’m writing this from the hotel), but that’s it. Unless I can get the thing up and running by tomorrow, there may be nothing posted over the weekend.

Bear with me, folks; this is like resettling in a new city, FFS.

Corporate State Tyranny

May 20, 2021 Kim du Toit Resistance

…a.k.a. Fascism is upon us. Joel Kotkin explains how and why.

Local banks have disappeared and been replaced by online and large national financial institutions. Between 1983 and 2018, the number of banks fell from 11,000 to barely 4,000. This is not an anomaly, but a trend.
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Today, a handful of giant corporations account for nearly 40 percent of the value of the Standard and Poor Index, a level of concentration unprecedented in modern history.
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Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft now make up 20 percent of the stock market’s total worth.

And Kotkin goes on to explain, in revolting detail, just what that means to us ordinary people.

It’s not enough to obey Big Brother and it’s not enough to love Big Brother; now you have to do business with Big Brother, if you want to have any kind of life.

I knew things were bad… I just didn’t know how bad. Read the whole thing; why should I be the only one depressed?

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the range. I only get to move back into the apartment after lunch, so I might as well do something productive till then.