Well, howdy there internet people, it's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

Texas and patches and social media and delays in talking about something.

A lot of people have been asking why I wasn't discussing the patch

and why I wasn't going into what appeared to be the motivating

factor for the assailant in Texas. If you don't know, the shooter there in Texas,

apparently had a patch on his gear that said R.W.D.S.

That patch is very closely linked to a specific group. It was popularized by a

specific group like five years ago. The belief that there's a connection there, I get it, it makes sense. But at the same time, I am pretty familiar with how the dynamics of those patches work. I would point out

that part of the branding of this channel now is because a bunch of cops were

wearing a patch they had no business wearing. Those patches once they become commercially available and they leave the end group,

they get used by a whole bunch of different people.

I mean, aside from the one that everybody knows about on this channel I would point out

That there's a whole bunch of goonies patches

Referencing the movie from the 80s

They have a pretty specific meaning. Anything you see that says something like Copper Pot School of Exploration or something like

that.

When those originally kind of surfaced, that was basically declaring, hey, I know how to take something that is designed to go boom that's tamper

resistant and make it not go boom. That's really what it was about, the ability

to diffuse booby traps.

Today, you see those all the time.

And I'm willing to bet that 90% of the people that have them

have no idea what the origin is. They have no clue that they are loudly

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