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dawg day

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3. It's all just LARP to them--

Reply to rgbecker (Original post)

Fri Aug 28, 2020, 12:26 PM

Aug 2020

Live Action Role Play. Paintball.

They fiercely believe that they're Seal Team 6 but in a video game.
Killing real people is an added thrill, of course.

This kid-- with the long rap sheet (and no time in reform school, of course... every charge just kind of dissipated) = thought he was going to become a police officer.

The way things are in a lot of police departments, he's probably getting job offers right now.

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When Kyle Rittenhouse was at the Militia training school, [View all] rgbecker Aug 2020 OP

Unregulated militias almost always end terribly. Oneironaut Aug 2020 #1

All these decades of cries of Second Amendment protection to possess and own guns no_hypocrisy Aug 2020 #2

It's all just LARP to them-- dawg day Aug 2020 #3

The point missed by many is this kid had a cop complex, because of a pot intervention KLRIQ2 Aug 2020 #4

Thanks for this insight. The pictures of him dressed to the t's rgbecker Aug 2020 #5

Very good post. We need to select the *best* for policing, radius777 Aug 2020 #6