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BECAUSE THEY HATE YOU

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note: a nice short article on the latest Hilary scandals.  Love the Star Wars reference:
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct16/Hillary-blast-points10-16.html
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This is a hilarious and insightful article:

http://monsterhunternation.com/2007/10/09/hk-because-you-suck-and-we-hate-you/

The article was a funny diatribe against a specific corporation, which we can all relate to.  Of course, to be fair to Heckler & Koch, ALL corporations really hate their customers even as they pretend to kiss their asses.  At least H&K comes right out and says that civilian pukes are not the customers they seek and so please do not even waste their time.  They love government military and paramilitary groups and civilian posers just queer up the works with their complaints and demands.  Of course the government entity you are working really hard in an obsequious manner to cultivate as a customer is also going to be whinny and demanding but at least there you see a payday of a few hundred million rather than a measly $795.99 which is before costs and import duties.  The authors discontent is almost like someone hating the fact that Hummer’s used to be military only with no civilian sales.  Hey, if their product is just military bling, why even bother to hate? 

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Okay, German products can be HUGELY overrated.  Their electric shaver broke during its first week and cut my face up nicely.  Their People’s Car’s never need oil changes because the gaskets always leak-just keep adding oil to the top as it drips down the bottom.  Not to mention their electrical systems also seem to be screwy, and that was way before the current “out of the factory floor, we stuffed so many Windows microchips into your car nothing works properly” standard.  I would never over spend for German firearms even if they were available.  I would be concerned I’d be getting American quality with over engineering to ensure something was always needing replacing.  I get the authors hate and discontent.  But of course remember that most corporations hate you.  I used to think Japan was the exception, and then I owned two Subaru’s that didn’t last a hundred thousand miles without major work.  Well, I had two wives that owned Subaru’s, so I blame both the spouses and those little Ninja Nipponese bastards.

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All corporations hate their customers.  If they didn’t, their customers wouldn’t be the target of fraud.  And it isn’t just their CEO’s.  Sure, a CEO is a complete dumbass who wasn’t enough of a jock to get a physical education degree ( the only thing worse than Lesbian Basket Weaving degrees are those in PE and Business.  Those three are where the retards go to get their sheepskin.  I’m far more impressed with a small business owner that survived on the street than ANY business degree schmuck ), but they are also just as immoral if not worse than lawyers.  The entire economic structure of the country ( and, currently, most of the globe ) is corrupt, uneducated and worthless.  I love it when I’m reading book #456 about Gore Warming where we are told we must change our behavior to save the planet.  The same culture that invited nuclear Armageddon in exchange for profit has focused on raping the planet for even more money, and you think they are interested in stopping? 

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But, to the main point of the aforementioned article ( the specific company hatred is just a side note, for our purposes here ).  The author mentions our blind acceptance of certain firearms for a variety of reasons.  Here, he points to the HK marketing department ( but since his whole article is humorous and while heartfelt doesn’t seem to be deadly serious, we take that with tongue in cheek ) as the culprit, but alludes to the entire gun culture as far too cliquish and susceptible to the power of suggestion.   He vainly wishes that more folks would actually shoot the weapons they profess to love.  And I’m just as guilty as any.  Every time I read a novel with a fantasy of using an M60 machinegun to achieve tactical superiority, I nearly ruin another $50 e-book reader by throwing it across the room ( or, not as often, chucking a $15 paper book in a similar manner ).  I was assigned one of those belt fed Nazi inspired hunks of crap and had the misfortune of becoming intimate with it.  What a vile turd.  Even without ammo you could barely tote the gun and all its accessories ( 20% of my body weight ), which wouldn’t be so bad if the thing actually protected you and your squad ( or, in our case being rear echelon security, the prissy officer pukes we had to protect ) but it was forever jamming.  If you haven’t fired the M60 you are just playing off the “cool” factor you got while watching movies.

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And yet, I then turn around and endorse the HK91 clones as an ideal survivalist rifle.  Have I ever fired one?  Yes.  Three rounds from a buddies gun.  Certainly not enough to evaluate its merits or lack thereof.  Some guns are easy to dismiss.  The Mosin-Nagant, lacking a gas bleed safety when ammunition was far less reliable than it is now and hence needing one, is the last rifle in the world you want in the future when age corroded or improvised chemical ammunition is going to be used.  The Slavic bastards that designed, approved and built the gun not only hated the peasant soldiers that would wield them, they obviously also hate you.  They want your face to be melted and/or missing vital pieces.  A lot of guns you should avoid just on general principle.  Like most of the American gun companies those management endorsed any import ban so as to capture more market share.  Nobody is going to miss the shoddy commie junk Chinese SKS, soft wood and soft metal leading to slam fires.  But we sure do miss the OPTION of owning one if that is all we can afford.

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Or how about those companies that killed our servicemen ( and pretty soon our service-bitches, I’m sure )?  Such as Colt.  I’ll NEVER buy from those dingus suckers.  Screw them very much.  It is bad enough when you are drafted for no other reason than empire building ( hard to argue that Vietnam was ever going to benefit the peasant-citizens as they had no oil ), and the Army officers are office politic educated idiots completely lacking a pinch of common sense, and your political master from all the way back to Washington believe your only purpose in life is for you to be cannon fodder, then to add insult to injury you are given a rusted jammed piece of plastic crap from profit-at-the-price-of-any-quality-whatsoever-from-Colt as a rifle. 

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I might have rambled a bit too much.  This article is following the Beware Of Hyped Guns thread.  More tomorrow.

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