I had a TFL tag too but I needed to drop one acronym and I liked the MRA/NRA similarity, even though TFL is a bit more accurate to the connoisseur of sad, bitter Internet misogynists.

It's really weird hearing the acronym "TFL" mean anything other than "The Fallen Lords"

I think this was the same one, as far as I know they only have one female model.

My father is a geologist and has been doing research in very isolated parts of Northern California and East Oregon for the last 20 years. I spent a month in the field with him last summer and one of the recurring themes was being showed sites where he and his research partner had been harassed, nearly shot (accidentally) or otherwise menaced by California rednecks. One of them was a spot where some people were shooting semiautomatic rifles behind a pile of gravel that was 100 yards from the highway at most. They were never clear whether it was target practice or an intentional threat but either way they had to literally duck down and kind of monkey walk back to their car to be sure, since it was too dark to actually see who was shooting, apart from muzzle flashes.

We also stumbled on a large compound with about 30 Tijuana style shacks surrounding one large house that was the only one that had electricity and was surrounded by hummers. Judging from the location, that one was probably the turf of the guys who had rolled up on his camp a few years back in a jeep with a machine gun mount.

The worst harassment we got that year was the redneck dunebuggy family camping near us one week repeatedly leaving a large rock in the path we took to the latrine (they came from the opposite direction), presumably to trip us at night. They also pounded on the door whenever one of us was in their for more than a minute or two. They had a large winnebago with a full bathroom, so it's not like they were actually using the latrine themselves. They also stole a couple expensive tools from our camp on the morning we were leaving, but since nobody saw it happen we couldn't get them to own up to it.

No real point to this except that there are a whole lot of people like this lurking around.

Jesus what a nightmare.

Most of it was completely awesome, there were a ton of totally fine people out there in little, somewhat isolated towns for the most part. There were just a few places where people with questionable habits congregated.

I didn't know about that tag, good suggestion!

Agreed

Same goes for bombs.