This man needs to go to prison for this. He is allowing unvetted people to gain access to sensitive information about former and current government employees. As a former federal employee whose information was leaked in the last OPM data breach, I am beyond irate about this. I will be contacting all of my representatives to make it ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CLEAR that this is unacceptable and needs to be stopped and result in incarceration for everyone involved including the security guard who was “just doing his job” by NOT DOING HIS MOTHER FUCKING JOB!
Towards the end of the night a security guard from the OPM came outside to lower the American and DC flags. One of the protesters questioned him about his role as a secretary guard if he was allowing un-credentialed third parties into the building to access commuter systems. He said he was just doing his job.
Just doing his job. Just doing his job…
At the Nuremberg trails at the end of WWII, this was the argument that many Nazi sympathizers and enablers made to remove their responsibilities from the events that happened.
Officers argued that they weren’t responsible because they ordered people to do things and they did them … they were not responsible because the people below them had the opportunity to refuse orders.
Lower level people argued that they were ordered to do things and they couldn’t refuse … they were not responsible because the people above them threatened them.
“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented”
- Elie Wiesel
This is the position people are put in. I don’t see “just doing my job” from low wage workers as a total cop out because I think, in many cases, it translates to “I cannot lose this job.”
I am not American but Americans have been enslaved by having their wellbeing (healthcare) tied to employment (at least to some degree.)
That argument is non receivable since the Nürnberg trials though
That doesn’t mean it’s not still a real motivation
Well, I’m not German but I’ve heard tales of people just doing thier job there not that long ago.
Don’t forget about the janitors still going in to work!
The Capitalism-Nuremberg defense.
Interesting, gee, where have I heard this before? 🤔
Someone arm them. I’ll send money. I’ll fucken go on my last couple hundred bucks.
fucken
Ah. Short for ‘fuckeng’ ?
Spend your last couple hundred on a cheap used revolver.
Print,
redacted, repeat
I pray for the safety of all good people who come to Zion, even Gentiles, but we can’t expect God to do all the work.
This could be taken in many ways, so, it might be helpful to just come out and say it… because we are running out of time. 😅
Did you know that for the past few years, the people of Myanmar have been fighting back against a genocidal apartheid government without any support from outside countries? They can get ammo and hobbyist 3d printers, but nobody is willing to send them any guns to use.
I’ll give you an acronym so you can try and guess the redacted word: PSR.
Buy a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he can feed a family for a lifetime. After all, many hands make for light work.
Edit: The quote and gif are a reference to a Fallout meme involving The Burned Man, who is sitting at a table with a pile of unchecked 1911s on one side and stacks of cleared pistols on the other.
Ahhh, so the gif is handing over the gun, and not pointing the barrel to his head? Because that’s some really poor gun handling.
In context of the scene this comes from, he has a stack of about six dozen .45 handguns that he’s clearing, cleaning, and preparing. In the seconds preceding this one that’s pictured he just ejected the magazine and locked open the slide. He looks down the barrel to check for obstructions or debris and then turns the gun back around and reassembles it.
This is Joshua Graham from Fallout New Vegas and I promise he knows his gun handling better than either you or I.
No, it’s part of a longer animation where he pulls the mag, racks the slide, checks down the chamber to examine the barrel and chamber for damage, then flips it to check it again from the other end, before putting the mag back in, and putting the now cleared gun onto one of the stacks.
Then he picks up a new one and begins the process all over again.
He actually shows pretty good gun handling during the whole thing. Even with the slide racked, the mag out, and the chamber checked and cleared, he still uses proper trigger discipline through the whole process. Flipping the gun is really the only “rule of cool” bit of the whole thing.
The whole thing is that he’s prepping 1911s for use to defend a tribe against an invading army. A lot of 1911s.
My point was that you can buy one gun, or help the community to either arm themselves or teach them how to. I figured a reference to Joshua Graham and his famous scene of checking guns forever would be picked up since the quote “We can’t expect God to do all the work” was a big meme for awhile.
“Used”
Might wanna check what it’s been used for. It’s one thing to go to jail for your own actions, but what if the gun’s previous crimes go against your principles?
Used firearms from a reputable dealer, not from someone’s trunk. They are often significantly cheaper than new, and many have not been fired much.
Thanks for clarifying, although I was being tongue-in-cheek.
