If you missed the news, one of protestors/rioters of the Capitol had Zip-Tie handcuffs with him. I’m assuming to make a “citizen’s arrest” of members of Congress. He’s been arrested but his picture has gone viral.
That lead to this Tweet from an editor of The New York Times.
https://twitter.com/Wolfe321/status/1349177352459313154
This is an actual person wondering why civilians need Zip-Ties.
She is clearly assuming Zip-Tie handcuffs are the same as Zip-Tie cable ties and therefore have no civilian applications and should be banned.
After a myriad of replies, Tweeted this:
I literally had no idea that there were this many people passionate about the legal use of zip ties
— Lauren Wolfe (@Wolfe321) January 13, 2021
I know that New York City progressives live in a bubble, but holy shit, did I not expect a person to be this ignorant.
Our society’s elites are truly the most ignorant and indoctrinated humans in history.
“I don’t personally use it, so it should be illegal” is basically the entire Democrat Party Platform.
Guns, Cars, Zipties, Church, Books that are not Harry Potter….
“I don’t personally use it, so it should be illegal.” By that logic, half the population believes tampons should be illegal.
These are not leftists first, they’re authoritarians first. They’re existential bottoms looking for a top. They gather on the leftist political machine like barnacles, because that machine is inherently authoritarian. There’s at least a significant percentage of the right that still believes in individual liberty and individual responsibility. If there’s any percentage of the left that does it’s so minuscule at this point that it’s entirely invisible. It’s that idea of liberty and responsibility that horrifies authoritarians. This is the “Landru, guide us!” generation.
Nice Star Trek reference!
Unfortunately this is the real world, and I am both pissed off and worried sick.
My wife gets so worked up about the leftist shenanigans, I have to calm her down. “Let’s watch a movie and forget politics for a while.” But it’s hard to ignore the shit-show that dominates us.
Shit guy, theres “NORMAL” (“men”)people that cant do simple things… fukkin stupidity is rampant in this country. Its gettin worse.
It looks like her Tweet is deleted.
And for the record, my last use of a zip tie was to make a hanger for a Christmas wreath this holiday season.
People in technical hobbies use zipties all the time. I use them to repair my 3D printer fairly regularly, and when I worked at a VR arcade, we bought them in bulk to secure cables and stuff to overhead reels because things broke so much.
Do regular humans actually buy guns? Have you ever bought a gun? If so, what did you use it for?
Then:
I literally had no idea that there were this many people passionate about the legal use of guns
Replace the bolded word with any item in normal use outside the NY/DC bubble.
If you remember, when AOC got to Washington, D.C., she didn’t know what an in-sink garbage disposal was; none of her NYC apartments had had one, so she’d never seen one and couldn’t imagine what it would be used for. The concept went so far over her head, she couldn’t see the vapor trail. I was shocked she didn’t draft a bill to ban them that very week (I’m now shocked to learn she hasn’t drafted ANY bills since she’s been in Congress — not one).
These people really have no clue what life is like out in the rest of the country.
To Lauren Wolfe, NYT(&TS) Editor: It’s not so much about people being “passionate” about the use of a legal item. It’s about the right tool for the right job. Zip-ties come in hundreds of sizes and have thousands of uses. I find your focus on the legal use disturbing; you weren’t tempted for a moment to try and make them illegal, were you?
I used one the other day for work. A new machine had a data cable that ran from s senor to a display. The cable was way longer than needed and got caught on a moving part. Luckily pulled it back before the machine destroyed it, added a zip tie to keep the cable clear and it works fine now.
The idea that because some people have no idea what something is and can’t use one doesn’t negate its usefullness or necessity to society. By her reasoning combines should be banned.
I work in IT. We use zip-ties for cable retention all the time (though I prefer the hook-and-loop or rubber ones, as they’re reusable).
At home, we use them for securing cables, temporary structures (seasonal garden trellises or puppy pens), quick tool fixes, keeping toy parts together so they don’t get scattered and lost, and a hundred other things.
But because some NY/DC talking head sees police use them to detain suspects, and then sees a protester carrying a bundle of them, suddenly they’re not OK for civilians to have. (Though let me tell you, if antifa/blm shock troops aren’t carrying them to “detain fascists”, I’ll be shocked.)
Remember when she got to DC she whined about the high price of rent.
… now, she has megabucks
… hmmm…..
I thought the story was he picked them up in the capitol, dropped by LEOs.
I have bags of zip-ties around here, mostly for cables and in black for outdoor use.
If there were Antifa LARPers in the mob, this guy is definitely one of them. He came way too prepared for things to go wrong.
Maybe she will soften her position and only restrict high capacity assault zip ties ;).
Seriously my local Wilco Farm store has 36″ zip ties, suitable for securing trophy sized antifa.
If I were a betting man, I’d wager my next paycheck she’s never been in a Wilco or any other chain of farm store, couldn’t tell you the difference between a combine and a dump truck, and thinks electric cattle fencing is animal cruelty.
I’m a Rural King man myself, but the best I’ve ever been in is Blain’s Farm and Fleet.
zip ties? I buy them at the farm store, in the electrical section. Use them all the time for cable management, or securing random stuff.
Idiots.
Someone should ask the Congresscritter if anyone should be allowed to own handcuffs, and watch the fur fly.
I confess that I wonder why people, protesters or beyond, would bring any sort of cable tie to a protest.
Did they think that there might be bundles of loose cables in the building?