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  • Carmakazi@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world*chef's kiss*.
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    5 days ago

    This is probably one of my bad takes, but here goes.

    I imagine for some people at least, saying “I’m asexual” is easier than saying “I’ve been subjected to some sort of sexual trauma that makes the idea of being sexually involved with anyone incredibly painful and therefore I have no interest.”

    But I guess someone can come to have no sex drive without trauma? But that’s hard for me to wrap my head around too, like someone who doesn’t enjoy food, or music.



  • Hot take: WWII rifles aren’t inherently priceless historic artifacts and I don’t really care that much when they’re “bubba’d.”

    They made millions upon millions of Garands, Enfield’s, Mosins, etc. The amount of war materiel in general produced was astronomical. If we treated every weapon, truck, tank, shell, ship, and piece of shrapnel as priceless, we wouldn’t have known what to do with it all. It’d be like a hoarding mentality on a societal scale.

    So yeah, people cut down old war rifles into hunting rifles. Repurposed surplus trucks where they could. Scrapped countless more where they couldn’t. People moved on.

    FYI the Sage chassis pictured is completely reversible and does not require altering the base rifle.




  • Carmakazi@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldCowboys
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    22 days ago

    Cowboys were just that, boys that worked with cows. It was (and still is) shit manual labor that didn’t pay well and it was often minorities that were stuck with it. They were not gunslinging lawmen or outlaws. If they could afford a firearm at all it was usually a shotgun or small bore rifle for hunting game while on their cattle drives.








  • Yeah, his convictions rang true, but he ultimately failed to accomplish what he set out to do.

    If you got 20 guys with AR-15s together and tried to raid, like, the Glock factory in Smyrna, GA, you wouldn’t meet much resistance either. It’s not like there’s a military garrison there. But you’d be fucked when you got surrounded by the local police, the county sheriff’s department, the state police, county SWAT, state SWAT, the FBI, the ATF, and on and on. Which is basically the equivalent of what happened.








  • The Serbs I’ve talked to online and a couple in person seemed ambivalent about taking responsibility at best. They are generally more pissed about the NATO intervention into their genocide SMO, and overblow how much death it caused compared to the death they (former yugo states) inflicted amongst themselves. I am confident Russia uses this as a wedge issue to their advantage these days.