That... the wild motorcycles... may be a subgroup of the rockabilly group, or another group?
I am not sure lol.
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Oh I agree, I just cant help but to be stunned and bewildered.
Just to give everyone a reality confirming dose of ... reality...
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-war-un-election-a78ecb843af452b8dda1d52d137ca893
Yes, yep, he has been saying, quite specifically the phrase 'on day one' since at least July of 2024.
Good info, but dear god what is this fever dream nonsense clipart/facebook boomer graphic?
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What is this goddamned clownworld timeline we live in where David fucking Brooks is calling for a mass revolt, a literal insurrection, against the pinnacle, ultimate form of what he and his ilk have advocated for and done their level best to make a reality for longer than I've been alive?
I mean... at this point, fuck it, this is good news, we are gonna need as many bodies in the streets and feet on the ground, from as many backgrounds and persuasions of all kinds to have any chance at all of stopping this madness...
But Jesus Christ if this isn't the most 'Dog finally catches car and is disappointed' fucking thing.
Welcome to Lemmy, I love you!
... hey are the .world mods still banning people for celebrating the death of the United Healthcare CEO?
Last time I posted a picture of the Bear Jew (from Inglorious Basterds) and said a Louisville Slugger would make Marjorie Taylor Green finally see those Jewish Space Lasers in her eyes, along with a bunch of other people posting guillotine sharpening advice, that whole comment section got nuked.... that was maybe a week or two ago.
Yes, you can invent an alternate reality where the largely corporate controlled and decorum and norms obsessed Democratic party actually prosecuted everyone up to and including Trump...
... and also pretend that entire process would not be capable of being derailed by a few very Trump friendly judges... and a heavily conservative Supreme Court... that did not (in your alternate timeline) invent an insane loophole interpretation of Presidential Immunity that effectively makes it legal for them to commit any crime while in office...
Or you could accept the reality that none of that worked, the MAGAs outplayed and thus subverted the entire legal system, is now openly defying the Supreme Court irt illegally renditioning legal immigrants to an overseas concentration/death camp, that 'the law' (as in armed agents of the state) are now totally lawless and not even trying to follow due process or habeas corpus...
... and that this new reality doesn't play by the now broken rules that you seem to think will save us, and that ... ironically, more traditional means of dealing with an oppressive violent fascist junta should... maybe at least be able to be discussed in an indirect, non specific manner.
Because it was generated by an LLM that assumes this one to ten iteration function is the entirety of all of what the code needs to do.
Japan, more specifically, the Harajuku district of Tokyo, has a number of ... very aesthetically bold subcultures, which certain people take extremely seriously.
One of which is basically exagerated 1950s American Rockabilly.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/01/07/the-tokyo-subculture-of-1950s-rockabilly-gangs/
A good number of these guys are in actual Rockabilly bands.
I dunno if this guy's PS1 blocky haircut really fits into an existing subculture, or if it is a joke off of this subculture... or if it is totally unrelated to all that...
But there actually are a good number of very dedicated aesthetic subcultures in the Harajuku district, Rockabilly is one... the 'gothic lolita' style almost certainly came out of Harajuku... there are many other niche identity/aesthetic/lifestyle cliques.
That is what I was referring to, not just... psycho/rockabilly generally around the world.
I can count to ten in English (native), Japanese (did Karate for about a decade) and Spanish (took classes in middle and high school).
I can ... read and listen to Spanish and maybe understand at about a 2nd or 3rd grade level... very much out of practice.
I would not say I can speak Japanese or understand it ... basically at all, unless the conversation entirely consists of either counting, or using nouns describing Karate forms, lol.
The first time I dated ... a combination weeabo and owns her own horses, horse girl, who was actually taking Japanese in college to major in it...
She asked me a very grammatically basic question in Japanese, a yes no question...
And I responded 'Osu!'... and then quickly learned that that is not a standard Japanese word for 'yes', that would be 'Hai', and that Osu ... basically only contextually makes sense in the context of a dojo or some other sports/military type setting.
Apparently in proper/normal? Japanese it is a casual greeting amongst martial arts practitioners... but I was literally drilled to say it as an enthusiastic, affirmative response to any command.
EDIT: Also, this will sound insane, but I swear to god this actually happened: Many years after the aforementioned clarification from my at the time gf... I later encountered a man who told me he was ... a yakuza, specifically a yakushi... we chatted for hours, he showed me how one of his fingers had been severely busted at the knuckle.
He explained to me that... there had been a fuckup on his part, but his... direct superior decided to basically accept some of the blame for the fuckup of this guy I met, and struck him with the blunt side of the blade instead of the sharp side... and then exiled him.
Which was why he was in America, and could no longer safely return to Japan.
Anyway, he explained to me that the reason why... most Japanese say 'yon' instead of 'shi' to mean '4' ... is because 'shi' is also the character/sound that... basically means 'death'.
Which then circled around to why he referred to himself as a 'yakushi'.
As he explained it to me, it meant that he had both dealt, and been sparred from death.
... I have no idea if what this guy was saying is actually true, if he actually was a yakuza... but he did tell me these things and seemed very serious about them.
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That pistol he grabbed from the vehicle...
...was his Mom's old service pistol.
His Mom was a school resource officer and later deputized into the Leon County Sheriffs.
https://www.newsweek.com/fsu-shooter-leon-county-deputy-phoenix-jessica-ikner-2061301
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(apologies for possibly paywalled link, try internet archive if its blocked for you)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/04/18/florida-state-university-shooting-what-we-know-about-the-suspect/
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https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2025/04/18/fsu-shooting-phoenix-ikener-fired-guns-deputy-mother-jessica-ikner/83159241007/
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Yeah so this guy was trained to shoot by his armed-with-a-firearm, middle school guard / county deputy mom, and he then took his mom's service pistol to shoot up his own school/uni.
I can't find more details on the shotgun, but it could also be the case that that is or was a service weapon as well... but that is barely informed speculation on my part, I just know that a lot of US cops also have a shotgun in their cruiser.