… you might want to re-read my comment because I’m definitely not saying that. The idea of “Shooting to wound” with any live round is moronic. Even .22lr can easily kill or cripple someone regardless of the shooter’s intent.

I take issue with downplaying how powerful .223/5.56 is. Sure, there are absolutely more powerful rifle rounds. That being said, here’s a video of cheap surplus 5.56 FMJ punching through 1/4" steel plate at 200 yards.

I tried searching for “BSD memes” but all the results are for some cartoon by the same name.

The idea of shooting any round at someone and expecting to “just wound them” is absurd, but .223/5.56 is definitely in the range of “reliably fatal if applied to the chest or head” .

It might not be a “big boy round” but it’s still a rifle round – if wasn’t powerful enough to reliably “incapacitate” (i.e. kill) a human being at 100 yards the world’s militaries wouldn’t still be using after 40+ years.

Fascists love their “martyrs for the cause”.

You’re absolutely right. However, they were going to find a reason regardless, since violence was always their end goal.

If it wasn’t this idiot it would have been something else: Trump losing the election is any easy one. The “Boogaloo crowd” resorting to violence was inevitable – the only thing that has changed is we can no longer pretend it’s tomorrow’s problem.

collapse

Yeah … it almost certainly won’t. The world’s largest economy and millitary will still be unmatched, except now they’re under the control of mask-off christofascists. They’re evil, but unfortunately they’re not stupid.

Everyone in the free world will be in for a bad time to varying degrees. I can promise you the new regime won’t be isolationists.

Furries do the back-end stuff, Femboys do anything client-facing.

Cold fucking War

Czar of Russia

The Czar wasn’t around during the Cold War for … reasons.

Late teens, maybe early 20s.

How close am I?

Various other things like leaves, rags, sponges, or leftover paper. Failing that a bare hand works: manners dictating you wash it after.

Some cultural hangups on the left hand being “unclean” stem from those cultures using that hand for hygienic reasons.

“I don’t have anything to hide because I think I’ve done something wrong: I have something to hide because I question your judgement and motives.”

They’re fine giving you their info because they trust you. The problem is when the person seeking that information is untrustworthy – and some shithead(s) making their way into a company or government isn’t just possible, it’s likely.

Tell them to give all their sensitive personal information to someone that hates them. Credit card numbers, political beliefs, nudes, sexual preferences/fetishes, etc.

I prefer “living a dream”.

Am I living someone else’s dream? Is it a nightmare? Am I disassociating? – the answer is “yes”.

I’m a 7 minute drive from downtown and my options are satellite, cellular, or fixed wireless. Everyone around me has gigabit ethernet, but due to costs involved in running fiber and the fact my little community is mostly old folks (and thus likely not going to buy in) ISPs don’t want to “invest” in us.

Before any tankies claim the word is a blanket slur against communists: “tankie” was coined by British communists that were disgusted by the attitudes of some of their so-called “fellows”.

“My pronouns might be they/them, but yours are about to be were/was.”

This message brought to you by Lockheed Martin: proudly supporting LGBTQ+ drone pilots worldwide.

Oh, is it because decades of incompetence and corruption weakened their already crumbling military? Their lack of a strong economy to support the war effort? Is it because they’re relying on Soviet leftovers instead of modern equipment? The fact their enemy is a motivated, supplied with actually decent munitions by modern/rich countries, and has a competent chain of command?

What do I win?

They’re not insane: everything they’ve done are things they sincerely thought they could get away with, and up until Ukraine Putin has been correct in that regard.

Pretending to be crazy is an effective strategy: ironically Nixon popularized it during the cold war.

Attacking targets in NATO countries (even if “justified”) is going to drastically increase the odds NATO gets directly involved in Ukraine – something Putin absolutely doesn’t want.

Clearly we need to spam pictures like this on social media. It’s a totally normal thing to do when your preferred political candidate is convicted of a crime.

It’s a great question that reinforces critical thinking.

Having the tools is one thing, learning to apply them correctly to a problem is another.

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