This is actually an ongoing process starting with the Vietnam War and the war on terror.

I'm only barely old enough to remember how, in the 90's in Europe, everything that came from the US was cool and everything local was lame and embarassing. People older than me probably remember it being even more so before.

Nowadays that's only true for movies. I genuinely think that the US's imperialistic behavior has spoiled the goodwill earned from WWII, in combination with the internet shattering the monoculture that the US used to dominate.

To be fair, if they're deporting US citizens, they can't deport them back into the US can they? Have some sense /s

I've been to many protests, and oddly enough i enjoy the feeling of freedom. Normal traffic rules don't apply and there are no cars, suddely you can walk in the middle of the street which is normally a forbidden space. You can dance, you can shoot fireworks in the middle of town, you can do loads of things that you normally can't.

Normally there's a nebulous sense that this space doesn't belong to us, it belongs to landlords and the state maybe? You don't feel a sense of ownership. But when it's being taken over by people in an unorganized way, now it feels like this space belongs to you.

And yes i'm french lmao

It looks like the back of a bolt action merged with the front of a semi-auto. What the fuck is this thing

EDIT: there aren't many rifles that do bolt-action and semi auto, but some of them do. If that's a real gun, then that narrows it down tremendously.

It's at this timestamp in the video, no additional angles, but you do get to see that the bolt opens straight up 90°, and also there's a flash hider. I think this is a drama that takes place in east germany? That narrows it down too.

The front sight really reminds me of an SKS, except not... It's like an 8-shaped peice with three holes that do front sight, barrel, and gas tube.

The rear sight looks like nothing i've ever seen. Doesn't look like the leaf rear sight that i associate with bolties.

The tube under the barrel is not bayonette storage because there's a weird plug at the end of it, it looks like you could rotate it and disassemble the tube.

Regardless if it's a real gun or not, the fact is that someone made this at some point, and i can't guess why they did it this way lol

I speak french and the french article says exactly what the english article says, except the english article has a lot more information.

It even includes the previous cases of kidnappers targeting people they thought might have large crypto holdings.