JUST LIKE IN THE PURGE TREATS so-true cool-zone

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    66
    ·
    3 months ago

    I do honestly see the US adopting the purge because some CEO decided it would give their security company a 3% increase in profits.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    46
    ·
    3 months ago

    I guess he’d know a thing or exactly 2 about really violent days where just one snap of violent force puts an end to a problem.

  • vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    You can have the purge and you’ll still be full of bloodthirsty imperialist who can’t wait to nuke china russia or whoever you don’t like. Hell you fucks already have school shootings that rival purge numbers to “get it out” Edit: it seems he means that for cops. But shit the purge movies were mostly an opportunity for govt killers to get undesirables out the paint

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    3 months ago

    If America does a purge, do you think all the low level government employees would be too busy hiding in fear that day to notice the warnings that several dozen Dong Feng ballistic missiles were fired directly at Washington DC?

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      3 months ago

      Huh. That’s something I never thought about “the purge” (and another reason why those movies are so dumb). It would be the perfect opportunity for the US’s enemies to conduct espionage or attacks under the guise of people purging. Hell, a ton of local militias would probably do that too.

  • reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    “We are happy to announce that years after the development of the Torture Vortex, we have finally built the Agony Nexus from the cult novel WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE GODDAMN TORTURE VORTEX, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS? ANYWAY, DO NOT, AND I REPEAT, DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, BUILD THE AGONY NEXUS!

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    This dude needs a pope-mobile if he’s gonna keep saying stuff that’s gonna make the libs want to kill him. He still regularly holds outdoor rallies and does them with just a clear bullet proof screen in front of him when Ukraine already demonstrated the effectiveness of drones, eventually someone’s gonna realise they don’t need to use a gun and could just fly a suicide drone in from relative safety.

    • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      3 months ago

      Pretty sure they’re supposed to have drone jammers at these events, then again they were spectacularly incompetent once already so who knows.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        18
        ·
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        I don’t think this is true. Think about it - if you’re blocking connections for remote control you need to block EVERYTHING on that connection frequency.

        If television broadcasters can get a connection to send their video signal then a means of connection exists. Or if the average person at the event can get an internet connection via their phone… A drone can get a connection through that method too.

        Maybe they block a common set of radio frequencies used by radio controlled devices or something. But they aren’t blocking everything and can’t or they wouldn’t be able to run the event. A drone can be controlled from many different means, if an internet connection to your phone exists then it also exists for a drone equipped to be controlled in that way.

          • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            13
            ·
            edit-2
            3 months ago

            I don’t know, IR? I think there’s direct line of sight connections too. There’s a lot of different ways. Some things are definitely not being blocked though or else all these other connections wouldn’t be a thing. Like really seriously think about it in the sense that the cops aren’t magical all seeing and all powerful. At the material level we can see for 100% certain that there are connections that aren’t being blocked.

            We have this perception that they’re doing a lot more than they actually are. It’s part of the illusion of power.

            • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              12
              ·
              3 months ago

              The thing I’m imagining looks like a big radar gun that just kinda floods the appropriate channels in a beam (depends on drone), but it would still require someone to spot the drone and someone to aim the jammer (and calibrate it to 4G or wifi or whatever), so lots to go wrong in the time it takes for a drone to cross from unrestricted to restricted airspace. And if the drone has a directional antenna (less likely the smaller the drone, but for a purpose built assassin drone, could be) it would be a lot less effective.

              But I’m still not sure if its a real thing. It does sound like something cops would buy should it exist tho

        • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          3 months ago

          I would be astonished if there wasn’t jamming. But you’re right, they aren’t jamming everything, just specific frequencies likely

          anecdotally, both wifi and 2.4GHz RC controllers have been blocked at a small time local parade event in my region.

          I mean shit, a drone doesn’t need any remote control, if it can just get GPS that might be enough, and i doubt they’re jamming or spoofing gps. Though they could.

          • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            3 months ago

            Wifi blocked during a parade? So no streaming? No ability to use chat apps etc while there?

            Kind of interesting. I’ve never experienced wifi blocking at all, anywhere, including during parades and when I attended the London Olympics. I’m pretty sure I’ve experience cell towers being shut down temporarily a few times though, mainly during protests that got kettled.

            I mean shit, a drone doesn’t need any remote control, if it can just get GPS that might be enough, and i doubt they’re jamming or spoofing gps. Though they could.

            Someone would need the exact location of the podeum that a target would be standing on and an explosive large enough for any margin of error for this to work. I don’t think it’s realistic. I do think this was used to disrupt a british airport once though.

            • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              edit-2
              3 months ago

              I mean who’s on wifi at a parade? I guess a couple people might be connected to nearby businesses’ wifi, but most people on their phones will be on 4G and unaffected.

              And yeah cell disruption either by jamming or stingray is seemingly common at protests.

              Oh and the drone gun I linked below in the thread does targeted GPS/GNSS jamming too. But that needs to be spotted and aimed

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        I wonder if it’s possible to set a “terminal course” for a drone, to make it an unjammable dumb drone? No further control, no active connection, just “ascend 100 meters, fly forward 300 meters, descend to ten feet and activate Special Function. Go.”

        • coolusername@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 months ago

          there are drones that are piloted by a fiber optic (?) cable. Russia has used them in Ukraine and China sells them off the shelf. They are immune to jamming cuz cable.