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				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, my reaction to that bit from 2rafa's post was "Balkans gonna Balkan, man, sorry."


Not quite related, but I think there's an island in Greece where there is de facto no gun control and it's kind of a no-go zone for police simply because it's a wild-terrain kind of place and it's been swimming in guns since at least WWII.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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It's not the will of the LEOs, it's the will of the confiscators giving them orders. There will be enough LEOs who won't push back on their orders.




I don't really put much stock into this in a post-Floyd world. I imagine that, in your hypothetical scenario, by Week 3 of the Great Gun Confiscation, officers will start conveniently calling in sick.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nowhere in the parent comment was legal compulsion to go against the 1st Amendment mentioned. The signal-boosting the media gives to mass shooters is very much voluntary, as with most media coverage in the first world.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
B.J. Campbell would probably disagree. Here is one such article of his where he would, as it relates to a particular segment of the American populace most affected by gun violence. He argues that the missing link is indeed broken lives.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Can you 3D print gunpowder?




I think @gattsuru or Beej once pointed to a furry who had figured out how to make guncotton at home all electrochemically and such, so...sort of, yes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Children are taught in school about the importance of turning in their parents if there are guns in the home.




Ah, so we'd further entrench the meme of Stop Snitchin'.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And even then, I suspect we may have to revise Japan's "docile" rating if they keep trying to kill their Prime Ministers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But Australia is very culturally similar to the US, and is by no means a docile society.




Ehh, maybe if you think of the sort of rural bogans and bikie-types we might stereotypically associate with Australia, but as a Yank, I'm under the impression that that really isn't the case, and they have a Deep Blue Tribe there (probably helped by the fact that Australia only has like four major cities).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Polymer cases would provide substantial weight savings (and reduce how much brass you need), but I don't think anyone has cracked the problem, or at least hasn't come up with anything commercially viable.




True Velocity has apparently nailed it down for .308 and .50 BMG. The recent-ish US Army trials that produced the XM5 and XM250 almost had the 6.5x51mm be adopted in a polymer case.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Sure. And your decent, formerly law abiding gun owners will not take advantage of that.




Maybe not Johnny Boomer who's never been one to rock the boat in his smallish town, but Jimmy Zoomer, who's about 8-12 points to the left of the very mass shooter who inspired this thread on the Political Compass and isn't terribly concerned about his future might.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


What is next, anti-tank rockets?




Even launchers* can be 3D-printed now.


*(Not the rockets themselves, mind you, though I once saw a video about making rocket motors at home out of sugar and kitty litter.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Might be Crete? I remember hearing it during a Black Pants Legion stream, I think.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And to think this placed used to have a big overlap with /r/drama, where “dude bussy lmao” was respected discourse.




As a non-Dramanaut, I've always been under the impression that that was more an accident of history.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Given Russia's performance in Ukraine, it wouldn't even be a stretch to depict them as a massive, terrifying force comprised of incompetent jobbers and cannon fodder, much like Nazis in popular fiction.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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if this deleted Twitter thread is any indication, the depressed birthrate might actually have a solution thanks to K-Pop's overseas fandom, ironically enough.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I'm not seeing how this actually threads together, though, unless you include League of Legends.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Between the whole post and the SSC Redditpost about the Korean education system, I can't help but suspect the real reason is "the philosophical foundations of Korean culture allow Moloch to flourish."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Having finally finished the article, I really liked it. I'm somewhat of an outsider to K-pop in its entirety, though I am familiar with the reputation that K-pop fans, at least the ones in the English-speaking world, have for being insanely-obsessed and toxic.


Speaking of which, I'm surprised Lakeman didn't go much deeper into the English-language/Western fandom side of things, as my impression is that such fans tend to play the "woke purity spiral" on 1.5x speed: they subscribe to the Tumblr/Twitter-Progressive memeplex, and not only will they absolutely dog offenders against the memeplex (including the circular firing squad), they seem to be equally vicious against rival fancoms. Ironically, they're way more progressive than the actual cultural mileu that birthed K-pop.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You know, this is a Reddit-style site, and what's one thing Reddit is known for...?


I think we could invite EY to do an AMA/debate thread here on this site so that he can get a different perspective on the AI Question. Granted, I don't think he'd actually want to come down here and potentially get dogpiled by people who at best have issues with how he presents his stance and at worst think of him as a stooge for the Klaus Schwabs of the world, but I think this is an area where our community need not keep its distance.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the easy strawman to this is Mr. Tex's vision of unrestricted sports.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Speaking of Japan's pop culture, Gundam, one of the oldest franchises around, has actually been doing stupidly well recently thanks to the Witch From Mercury series. The trick? They tried something new, and it's paid off to the point that the Gunpla has been flying off the shelves and it's brought in new fans just like Iron-Blooded Orphans did.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would like to state for the record that my impression of Russian incompetence is, as HaroldWilson kind-of touched on, driven less by Western reporting and more by evidence surfaced by internet randos (i.e. Twitter people and Channers) looking for the dankest, funniest, you-literally-could-not-make-this-shit-up-if-you-tried bits of intel that trickle out of the area.


With that out of the way, I want to reiterate that we are talking about fiction. I suppose that if I had phrased my post as "the modern Russian army has now ascended to the tier of Enemy-faction-that-is-safe-to-use for fiction creators," maybe I would not be writing this post now. I can acknowledge that the reality isn't quite as popular image makes it seem. The Nazis were genuinely more threatening than certain hero-fantasy media (e.g. Rat Patrol, Indiana Jones, Wolfenstein) makes them out to have been. Similarly, the Russians aren't a complete laughingstock and still represent an undefined, nebulous threat.


But, in the ragged parlance of our sitting President, come on, man. Again, alluding to my first paragraph, some of the reports about the reality of Russian capability in the beginning of the war and beyond* were so out there that any fiction writer who depicted them as such before the war would have been slammed and roasted by no end of YouTube rantsona channels, armchair generals, and 4Chan pedants. However, we clearly live in the Dank Timeline, and I will never not be amused by the idea of future generations using the 2022 Russians in the manner described above.


*(using insecure commercial radios instead of actual encrypted military radios; tires that fell apart from lack of maintenance, making Russian trucks incapable of necessary off-roading; a Russian plane that avoided starting WWIII only because a missile failed to launch from, again, lack of maintenance; the Cope Cage)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, a lot of Kubrick's movies were really just novel adaptations, and much of Kubrick's body of work are considered classics. Markedly changed from their source material a lot of the time, sure, but adaptations nonetheless.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Then again, I shouldn't forget Nate Silver's lesson from 2016 that the public is pretty likely to interpret "less than 50% chance" as "basically impossible."




Yeah, I have to wonder if OG X-Com was more representative of how percentage chances actually work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To add onto Ec's reply, I think the argument they were trying to make is that the Olympics and all other televised major sports sell a subtly/deceptively-unrealistic image of human capabilities. Frankly, I think a lot of sports-related marketing also does that (athletes on the Wheaties boxes!), and if, instead, we were honest while still trying to make sports a thing for everyone, we'd probably have to become bio-realist to some degree.