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Why is that trash? I would love to drive and shoot a real tank as a civilian.

can we argue carbon footprint?

A tank is 1 mpg. I am guessing they are not driving more than 1 or 2 miles on an excursion. This is hardly harmful to the environment compared to other entertainment options.

A quick Google shows 0.6 mpg....

Imma call for a citation from ya

At least they are not launching space rockets.

His ranch is on the MX/TX border and he owns domains (to resell) such as roaches.com, illegal.com, molest.com, etc. Take with those what you will of the sort of person he is. That's just the few I remember otoh. He has hundreds.

One of those is not like the others (it's roaches.com).

Either I'm missing a joke or you need to travel more. Calling mexican immigrants roaches is a thing.

My assumption was that it referred to this [1], but then I’m not a racist POS so maybe I’m out of the loop.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roach_(smoking)

Yeah that's definitely not the situation here unfortunately.

Never heard that before either, but personally, I would prefer not to travel to wherever immigrants are called roaches.

I haven't heard that word being used in years living around there and also being hispanic.

To me it just looks like parent is cherry-picking some domains to try and put words in their mouth.

If the person owns roaches.com out of hundreds of domains then you're going to try to make it racist so the owner looks racist?

I never understood why trying to make innocent things racist isn't considered racist itself.

I’ve only heard of hispanic comedians using it in recent years:

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-leguizamo-latinos...

I first heard that joke in a 1990’s standup routine, fwiw. It could have been the same person telling the joke, I guess.

Anyway, it used to actually be used by white american racists; it’s been weakened to just self deprecating humor, kind of like jewish comedians like to tell jew jokes.

Not unheard of to squat on domains to prevent them from being used for nefarious purposes. Not saying that is what he is doing, but unless he starts using them for racist purposes, I am not going to hold this against him.

Literally nobody asked your opinion of how he uses his domains. But thanks for your sage response. Please continue playing devils advocate in situations you're completely ignorant toward. It really benefits everyone.

Redditization of HN is impressive. Kcplate comment is totally fair and relevant, but it seems Swozey does not care about fair and relevant...

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LOL "reddization of HN." I've been on HN for years before you. Maybe commenters should listen to the OPs better and stop playings devils advocate so much. Because especially in this specific scenario it is absolutely stupid.

Yeah, we've got a guy with essentially a right wing militia fortress on the border of TX who owns blatantly illegal-immigrant racist trope domains and it's not related at all. Some engineer who commonly talks infrastructure is just making all of this up because he's bored on HN this weekend. Who wouldn't squat on such gems as "molest.com" to keep them from being used?

> Some engineer who commonly talks infrastructure is just making all of this up because he's bored on HN this weekend.

Well, it is the internet after all.

Apparently you are unaware of how these sort of commenting forums work. Bless your heart.

- Ecological impact

- finances that could feed/house/treat people

- reinforces militant/gun culture

- wear on roads

While we're on it, can we get some negative energy for holidays in general? It bugs me that most people have no savings and then we have people just swanning around burning resources for fun. The waste of drawing hard-working people into the tourism sector when they could be working on improving their own communities directly is just appalling. Let alone the environmental damage caused by the travel and the lost productivity from people literally just having fun.

Am I being sarcastic? Not even I am sure. The arguments are truthful. But the fairest way to organise things is that people who made a big economic contribution (represented by money) should be allowed to waste a similar-magnitude-but-smaller amount of resources. That is, ironically, the path to prosperity.

Did you see the backlash the Kardashians got over COVID and flying all their friends to private islands? It was pretty entertaining.

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