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    11 months ago

    I mean, of all things that is the least incriminating.

    Gun nuts LOVE cosplaying and larping as “real” soldiers.

    In some of the shittier parts of the US I have even seen idiots wearing vests and masked tape name tags so that they can pretend they are active duty while in line at a mcdonalds. Felt fairly safe grabbing a bite to eat since I saw the pile of guns in the back of their pickup truck but…

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      11 months ago

      I mean, true, but it’s more evidence against the notion that he was only an uninformed innocent bystander who followed someone to a thing.

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        11 months ago

        The problem is that, in the world we live in, he could have walked in with an m16 in his hands and ten mags duct taped to his body and still made the argument “I was on my way to the local Sheetz and got wrapped up in the excitement”.

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      11 months ago

      Gun nuts LOVE cosplaying and larping as “real” soldiers.

      “I’m a Marine, not a soldier! GET IT RIGHT!!!” - the larping asshole, nerd raging; almost definitely.