Several states have at least proposed legislation to protect drivers who run over protestors. I forget off the top of my head if any actually passed, but the spirit of murder has been there.
The amount of people concern trolling about incitement to violence in the replies. Holy fuck. Look at that US senator’s post about killing protesters. I’m honestly furious.
The difference is, we, the left, get arrested for inciting and encouraging violence, not praised and rewarded like right wingers do. It is dangerous for us to openly encourage violence, even as a joke, because it can and will be used against us.
Not to say we should never use violence or anything like that, just that we should be mindful of what we post on social media.
There's a guy who goes to my gym who always wears "operator" style gear and I always see him switch the TV to Newsmax and his truck is just layered in My other truck is a Gun stickers
If I wanted, I could just crush him while he's working the free weights
It gets worse the more you look. They're a zionist RPing a caricature of a Palestinian muslim who's trying to milk a "made-up" genocide for sympathy. Virtually identical to Neonazis mocking Jews for obsessing over the Holocaust/Shoah while posting happy merchants. Fascism but redirected towards "acceptable" targets in service of imperialism.
So I was sort of idly thinking, just for shits and giggles "what's the next step in doohickey technology? How can this luducrously basic, electrically ignited muzzle loader be made more effective, and what's the biggest leap in effectiveness that can be achieved for minimum additional parts and labor?"
And the first thing that came to mind was "electrical contact surfaces"
As it is, the ignition wires seem to end in the chambers, buried inside the propellant charge. This makes the ignition and firing system one inseparable piece, which makes sense for a weapon that was never designed to be reloaded in the field. But if you want to get wacky with it, say if you're somewhere where normal cased ammunition is just too hard to come by, why not separate them? Make the ignition come from a copper rod permanently pressed into the chamber: the end of which, when the barrel is seated, makes contact with another copper piece hooked up to the gun's battery. Add a latch and a couple springs to the frame and bam, quick change barrel system. Keep some spare barrels, pre-loaded, and suddenly reloading your modern blunderbuss is as quick as a barrel change.
its not that good of a post - i would generously rank it 5/10. three points for the implicit statement, the other two points for the reference but honestly the doohickey/contraption & other related pics of being used as a 'im gonna beat you in the street with a hammer' sort of response to anything was overdone on Twitter like two months after Abe's assassination. lowbie humor and i bet someone probably posted it in response to the tweet hours earlier. thank you for coming to my post ranking, stay tuned for more
comrade, whether or not the media picks up on it is far from a good metric for rating the quality of any post - otherwise you would have me believe that the underpaid social media intern(s) that do the monthly 'clapbacks' on the social media accounts for Wendy's are generational speakers
honestly I associate 'lowbie' with WoW more than twitter but you're absolutely right that the platform has melted my brain thoroughly over the last 15 years enough to the point where I can tactically assess the value of a tweet without having any context
Thanks for the reminder that even in high-social-conformity, 99% ethnically homogeneous countries that are also islands, gun control still doesn't work.
Gun control doesn't work if you define control as "zero access to firearms". But since nobody does, you're spitting into the wind. There's a reason the U.S. has an absurd amount of mass shootings compared to countries with more gun control.