Buelldozer

At some point, the NRA forgot that and only funded one side.

As the article notes after '94 the number of Democrats the NRA could support steadily dwindled. These days the Democrats purity test their candidates to ensure that they fully support Gun Control and there are various Democrat PACs that will oppose Pro-Gun Democrats in the primaries; making it increasingly unlikely for there to be any future Democrats at the federal level that the NRA can support.

The 2nd Amendment is a wedge issue and both sides do their best to take maximum advantage of their position.

That left them vulnerable when there was widespread financial fraud in the organization...

They were vulnerable because they were up to shady shit. No one should have been going to bat for the NRA during their corruption scandal and the fact they had one is entirely the fault of the NRAs Board of Directors. They knew what was happening and ignored it. No amount of political donations to Democrats, or anyone else, should have insulated them from the consequences.

I'd like for all of the Pro 2A groups, not just the NRA, to get back to donating to non-Republican politicians but they kinda don't exist anymore and I don't know how to change that.

The modern NRA is near useless but what you're accusing them of hasn't been true in a long time.

The NRA that supported The Mulford Act ceased to exist on May 22nd, 1977. The membership was fed-up with their organization supporting Gun Control and in an event known as the Revolt at Cincinnati they removed and replaced the entire leadership then set the organization on an entirely new course.

Post '77 it's been very rare for the NRA to support any kind of Gun Control, to the point that they've spent the last three decades getting torn up in the media for staunchly opposing any limits on 2A rights for anyone. They've spent a ridiculous amount of time, money, and energy winding back all of the gun controls and policies that they supported prior to '77 and to my knowledge they've made no attempt to limit 2A rights for non-whites.

Now some of the NRA members and 2A associated politicians are certainly racist / sexist / 'phobic fuckheads but the organization itself hasn't cared about any of that for decades.

The biggest knock on the NRA in modern times, basically the WLP corruption era, is that they completely lost the willingness to go against the Police regardless of the circumstances. The '90s (Cold Dead Hands / Jackbooted Thugs) era NRA would likely have already been in the streets at this point.

The NRA is very nearly a failed organization at this point.

In regards to recent events there was a time back in the '90s where they were pretty willing to get involved in stuff like this. Ol' WLP himself let fly with phrases like "Jackbooted thugs" and Charlton Heston proudly declared "From my cold dead hands." The NRA of the '90s was a fiery organization that was increasingly positioning itself as an anti-government force.

Then it stopped. I've never seen confirmation as to why but my supposition is that after the "jackbooted thugs" comment that WLP got a tap on the shoulder from the men in black suits and a deal was struck.

If today's NRA had the spirit it did 30 years ago they'd likely already be in the streets.

But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.

You must have been too young in 2015. Redditors watched in amazement as "the switch" flipped from Bernie to Hillary in literal hours.

The DNC later admitted to spending millions of dollars on actual shills, employed by ActBlue, to "Correct the Record" on Hillary.

10 years at least.

The car they're describing is from the late 80s / 90s when "freeway speed" was just 55MPH (at least here in the United States). If car travel was forced to be any slower than that people would simply fly everywhere.

A common trip for me back then was 630 miles one way and at 55MPH it was 11 1/2 hours. If you lowered the speed just 5MPH it would take nearly 13 hours!

At that point I would have just gotten on a damn plane as 13 hours (likely longer with fuel stops) is simply too damned long.

Oh wow, that explains why so many of the new Audis look worse than they used to!

I would argue that it is already the case that cheap cars look and perform excellently, compared with cars produced fifty years ago.

50 years? Try 30 and even 20 could be argued.

This kind of crap is driving popular creators, like Geerling, to move to other places. YT / Alphabet has lost the plot.

YT Premium has no ads. YT Lite does, just fewer of them (supposedly).

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Big...if true. This article is long on claims but utterly bereft of proof.