In the Saints Row series they’re called kneecappers and I tried and uninstalled them because they caused too much mayhem. They also appear in the Spy Hunter 1983 coin-op video game
I remember seeing them on Speed Racer used by villains before seeing the chariot race version in Ben Hur.
IRL they’re obviously a hazard and inappropriate in traffic where people are just trying to collaboratively get home. (And yes, traffic is a collective cooperative effort, and we see that as soon as someone gets antagonistic.)
But Americans imagine themselves rugged individualists, a component of capitalist propaganda, and like to show they’re rebels with shit like rolling coal and truck nuts.
This totally looks like a FAFO moment that is going to turn into a regulatory statute.
Since it’s not a firearm, I doubt courts or officials will be interested at all in pursuing second-amendment liberties over this. They seem not to care about knives or ninja gear, either.
Here in the US, we’ve been cultivating idiocy with a long standing anti-education movement in the Republican party.
More exactly, there are a multiple intersecting movements:
~ No public education / No education for the poors
~ Religious (Christian nationalist ideology) education for all
~ Charter schools as grift
~ Obey authority. Trust the state.
And these figured into the instant army that rallied to Trump in 2015-2016 from the rest of the Republican party. Principal figures from the party watched their own ideology collapse, and there was nothing they could do about it.
In the Saints Row series they’re called kneecappers and I tried and uninstalled them because they caused too much mayhem. They also appear in the Spy Hunter 1983 coin-op video game
I remember seeing them on Speed Racer used by villains before seeing the chariot race version in Ben Hur.
IRL they’re obviously a hazard and inappropriate in traffic where people are just trying to collaboratively get home. (And yes, traffic is a collective cooperative effort, and we see that as soon as someone gets antagonistic.)
But Americans imagine themselves rugged individualists, a component of capitalist propaganda, and like to show they’re rebels with shit like rolling coal and truck nuts.
This totally looks like a FAFO moment that is going to turn into a regulatory statute.
Since it’s not a firearm, I doubt courts or officials will be interested at all in pursuing second-amendment liberties over this. They seem not to care about knives or ninja gear, either.
This isn’t a problem with Americans. Every country has idiots. This just happens to be one of ours.
But some countries have many more idiots per capita.
Here in the US, we’ve been cultivating idiocy with a long standing anti-education movement in the Republican party.
More exactly, there are a multiple intersecting movements:
~ No public education / No education for the poors
~ Religious (Christian nationalist ideology) education for all
~ Charter schools as grift
~ Obey authority. Trust the state.
And these figured into the instant army that rallied to Trump in 2015-2016 from the rest of the Republican party. Principal figures from the party watched their own ideology collapse, and there was nothing they could do about it.
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