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The 90 grain projectiles are memes, though, as they're too long to fit in the most common magazine; 77 grain OTMs are usable but not particularly common. (Interestingly, it's possible to find .223 with 40-grain projectiles as well.) 55 and 62 are the two most common, and ~1.5x a small weight is still a small weight.
Again, this is the simplest version. (Is a Miata with a 500 HP LS1 still a Miata to someone who doesn't understand what a drivetrain swap is?)
muzzle-cleaned-porg-42
1yr ago
As a general principle, if enough people consider the "aesthetics" important, it is becomes a cause, which is important for recruitment. Causes attract the real object-level issues, and object-level questions (economic or otherwise) may attach themselves to aesthetic causes. Or find themselves attached; sometimes the aesthetics may take the driver's seat.
I agree chances of classical civil war is quite low. There is still possibility of other forms of super-unfun-bad-times, though. (The Troubles. Italian years of lead.)
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1yr ago
I mean he looks tough. He looks like a fighter. He looks like a leader in every way Biden can’t— calm, strong, and in command of the situation.
Felagund
1yr ago
Just after, actually, assuming it's the picture where the bullet is on the right side of the picture.
Ponder
1yr ago
Figure out what sources of media they consume daily and try to follow the same sources. If they get their information from social media find some of the people they follow, or what podcasts they listen to. Eventually, you will pick up on the some of the common references/background culture. I find most people are highly likely to be interested in currently trending events. If they reference an older piece of culture it is often somehow connected to a current event.
I will caution you that trying to force yourself to fit into social settings in this manner may lead to burnout and mental health problems. If you learn to enjoy doing it than that is great, but if it feels like a forced social performance that you hate doing then it may cause problems in the future.
Another option that might be available to you is telling people that you suspect that you are on the autism spectrum/neurodivergent. This may lower what they expect of you in social situations. It shifts the framing from you are having trouble fitting in because you haven’t put in sufficient effort to you are having trouble fitting because the neurotypical norms cause you mental distress/burdens/anxiety and your disability prevents you from substantially changing this.
People are usually accommodating and don’t ask a lot of follow-up questions. If they do just being familiar with autistic masking, autistic burnout, and special interests will probably be sufficient to answer any questions they have.
Soteriologian
1yr ago
Exactly, they watch too much TV instead of looking at the actual data. The reason assassinations like Kennedy and Lincoln were unsuccessful were because the assassin went for the head, whereas in successful attempts like Roosevelt and Reagan, they aimed for the body.
FistfullOfCrows
1yr ago
Oh we definitely do. There's videos of the "bomb" being planted. And them the next day a "plain clothes cop" mysteriously goes straight for where the backpack is and recovers it then hands it to some cops. The whole thing stinks to high heaven and they did use the aleged bombing attempt to throw the book at a whole bunch of people. Not to mention the explosive device LITERALLY being constructed exactly like an "example" bomb down to the stupid mechanical clock thing.
Rov_Scam
1yr ago
It depends on how he carries himself afterwards. If he limits public appearances or speaks behind bullet proof glass it doesn't exactly demonstrate strength. If he over politicizes it and tries to blame Biden, it won't sit well with some people.
FistfullOfCrows
1yr ago
Ah yes, point blank and multiple shooters. Really, it's all the same thing.
Rov_Scam
1yr ago
There's no way career politicians with actual experience running campaigns would allow it to go to Don Jr. without a fight. Haley has pledged delegates who would see there chance. Whoever the VP pick was would argue that he gets Trump's delegates. Desantis would see his chance and argue he was more popular than either of them. On the other hand, if the RNC pushes one of the above three it will be harder for the other two to argue against them. There still might be a power struggle, but it wouldn't be as public.
Quantumfreakonomics
1yr ago
Multiple shooters?
Skibboleth
It's never 4D Chess
1yr ago
Mary Todd double-tapped Abe while Booth was distracting everyone by jumping on stage.
No_one
1yr ago
If you look at the other videos, up to a minute before they're looking in the direction of the shooter..
Of course, seeing as FBI is investigating it, the odds of ever hearing what really happened are low.
To_Mandalay
1yr ago
You guys do terrorist attacks all the time though. Every couple months one of you ODs on 2016 /pol/ memes and shoots up a synagogue or a mosque or a crowd full of blacks and Mexicans.
No_one
1yr ago
You don't know whether he went for a headshot.
It's a common joke really. "1: nice shot, you got him right in the head." "2: I wasn't aiming for the head"
No_one
1yr ago
Trump wasn't wearing some fancy battlefield armor with ceramic plates. Meaning any rifle round apart from (maybe) hollow point small rifle ones would have gone right through.
Also, he was being shot from the side, which is a direction where soldier armor doesn't have ceramic plates so rifle rounds are lethal.
Really, had the shooter used a better gun, practiced more and went for center of mass, he could have killed him easily.
Odds are cca 50% that a torso hit with a .30 rifle kills a person. And he's a spring chicken only when compared to Biden.
greyenlightenment
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1yr ago
before the advent of modern medical care and decent body armor , aiming for the torso would have been better . infection would have been lethal if initial bleeding/trauma wasn't
TIRM
1yr ago
22 and 556 bullets are not interchangeable. They are shaped significantly differently, despite the similar nominal diameter. One is a little nub like a pencil eraser. The other is a long pointy spike.
pigeonburger
1yr ago
It's pretty much the two extremes as far as the appearance of strength of the two candidates.
Shrike
1yr ago
Is this actually true? Seems like there are some small indica that the next generation might be a bit redder than the younguns but by and large the young adult population doesn't seem to be trending incredibly red. I'd be fascinated to read a take otherwise.
(I've 100% seen the "only the reds are having kids" take but it doesn't seem clear that that actually results in red kids.)
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1yr ago
Your last warning and the tone of your posts below leads me to believe that you are not being serious, and you think you're being funny.
You're not. This is why we have a rule about speaking plainly and we ask you to avoid sarcasm.
Ironically testing how many people you can take in with Poe's Law shitposting is not the giggle-fest you think it is.
Stop it.
Takers versus Makers, and ethnic conflict. The blues are really more like the browns and yellows.
Certainly by the time the civil war goes got, it will be an ethnic conflict between all the foreigners imported in the last half century against those already present.
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