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Oh, OK, looks like I misinterpreted what you were saying.

That is not how the word is used, however.

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Honestly if they didn't have socioeconomic status a lot more groups would be getting called terrorists.

Much as I loathe siding with the Further Left, I have to agree with them that "terrorist" is basically the current code for "enemy".

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of stuff to that effect in 1491. American civilizations were really pretty advanced as far as ecological management goes. Part of the theory of that book is that the Americas had a pretty good sized carrying capacity and a huge number of people died in the massive plague-based destruction of their society. Ponce de Leon went through a very different America than people who went later.

In the spirit of the forum, could you publish your support for this?

Yeah, like it or not, the world moving forward will be a human-made one. We just have to determine whether it will be functional and beautiful or dysfunctional and ugly.

Believe it. Hippies are still violent, it's just that they mostly get their way now because their daddies aren't around to whip 'em.

Oh, is it time for my cataract surgery already?

I never got into building. Always admired those with the patience for it, but I don't have it. I also don't have the patience to polish a Mauser receiver to 400 grit against a deadline...

This is an excellent book that should be required reading for anyone looking to get their free speech[history] license. Even though some of the people he's criticizing have faded a bit into obscurity, his thesis speaks volumes to me.

It does open the door for severe crimethink. You've been warned.

If you're wondering what it's all about, this is a short and decent critique and summary (though I feel the author is being too hard on Butterfield - everything he points out should be obvious to all but the braindead).

If you haven't read colli's post, do so. He's entirely correct.

So, it's worth pointing out for this generation that the above situation is why Jeff Cooper is important. I've said a lot about what a weirdo Jeff is, and how stupid his scout rifle idea is (OK, realtalk: Just because an idea has an internally consistent train of logic does not make it a good idea), but he was one of the first to concern himself with the idea of the fighting civilian. The scout rifle is like the FBI crouch: It's not really a great idea, in retrospect, but the scout rifle has its origins as far back as 1966 - so even then Cooper was thinking about the problem of, basically "what happens if there's something like Ruby Ridge?" almost thirty years before that actually happened. And yes, the Bren Ten handgun is goofy and stupid, but it was an answer to a question that was brand new at the time.

For people interested in tanks, you can draw parallels between this situation and that which resulted in the American tank destroyer doctrine. I was walking through the Barksdale Air Power Museum about a week ago with my father, and we were talking about Butterfieldian historiography and the Apollo program, and as an example he brought up the American tank destroyers. "I was reading an article," he said "about the tank destroyers, and what they were trying to do. Nobody had stopped the Blitzkrieg at that point, but they knew they needed to. I tell you what, they didn't end up using them quite that way, but somebody was really thinking when they came up with that idea."

Indeed. Here's to you, Jeff Cooper. For thinking where few else did.

Solution: Do not go on imgur.

Also I disagree with your contention that it doesn't give a proper distinction between shitheads and non-shitheads. I suspect this is because we have rather a different perspective on social issues.

That has not been my experience. SJW has been primarily applied to the proverbial "mentally disabled landwhales" of Tumblr.

With the modern internet being exposed to more young people every day, there's no shortage of batshit insane people to fill the SJW bin.

The safety is perceived to reduce the strength of the slide. Frankly, I think that's BS, but w/e.

The current fashion is for handguns to have minimalist or no manual safeties and striker-fired pre-loaded triggers. The Beretta comes from an earlier time when they didn't know what the hell people would want from semi-autos so it has fifteen different fire modes.

It's a fine handgun.

That's a pretty apt description. Woe has befallen us, as we're now going on third generation hippies. At leas they're less violent this time around, but their rhetoric is, if anything, more hateful.

Here's Larry Fucking Correia on SJWs, a subspecies of hippie.

I think I may commit the ultimate heresy and uninstall or cannibalize NovaPunch. Probably cannibalize it, it still has some good stuff, I just found a replacement for the 2.5m NERVA.

Daigensui assures me she has documents relevant to why the Japanese switched to 7.7mm. She hasn't provided anything yet.

Just keep in mind, we're gonna be stuck with "current gen" consoles for at least a decade.

And if you think that doesn't affect you because you just play PC games...

My understanding is that they pretty much used that as an excuse, yes.

JESUS CHRIST A WHOLE GIGABYTE

(Also, does it depress anyone else that the Xbox 360 has half a gig of RAM? PS3, too. So basically, games have been hobbled by terribad hardware for the past eight years.)

Ooooh, artillery is not my strong suit.

There were significant numbers of old .45-70s still in use by the US.  Those were using blackpowder.

Yes, that's true. I've edited my statement for clarity.

I don't think the propellant chemistry was all that different. Neither the Krag nor Mauser were using blackpowder.

That's funny because if we go by veteran accounts - the guys who were there - they were more worried about the old Rolling-block Remingtons whose slow moving, high caliber rounds caused more grevious injuries. The 7mm Mausers were seen to over penetrate causing small through-and-through wounds.

The thing that impressed the Americans was the use of smokeless powder with all the Spaniard's modern weapons.

They were actually both using smokeless powder guns (the Krag and the Mauser), but the Spanish were about a generation ahead with their weapons, which could sustain a higher rate of fire, had a flatter trajectory, and were more resistant to the elements.

This led directly to the .30 Government caliber, which eventually became .30-06.