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Members of white supremacist and antisemitic hate groups marched outside Orlando, Florida, on Saturday screaming invectives, raising the Nazi salute, and yelling “Heil Hitler” and “white power.”

“We are everywhere!” neo-Nazis can be heard shouting in a video shared by former Florida House of Representatives member Anna V. Eskamani. Later in the footage, they yelled, “Heil Hitler” while performing a Nazi salute.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The m249 machine gun has a cyclic rate of fire of at least 650 rounds per minute with a sustained rate of fire exceeding 100 rounds per minute. From a stable firing position and with the aid of a bipod, it is possible to accurately lay down sustained suppressing fire on a mass of targets at will, providing that spare barrels and ammunition containers are at hand.

Unrelated, just thought I'd post some trivia

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I prefer mockery; to quote Mel Brooks:

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win ... That's what they do so well: they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter, they can't win. You show how crazy they are.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been saying for years that you cannot win a bad faith argument in good faith.

When Tucker Carlson inevitably runs for president, nobody should converse with him, at all, without mentioning the fact that he doesn't have enough testosterone to grow a decent beard.

Just emasculate him.

Fight in bad faith. You do no win a bad faith argument in good faith.

Edit: for clarity, if he did end up growing a decent beard, you then make fun of him for being such a pussy that he grew a beard to try to shut people up about his low testosterone. "What a sensitive pussy."

This is how they fight. It's easy to do.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed.

To drive home the point further, as a member of a great extinct species once said,

Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters... Their silence is your answer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no prize for the best victim.

--Crissy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah okay. It's on my to-watch list but just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bump it, the first season is my favorite but some people consider it the weakest, but everyone loves s2 and 3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Yes. Or... you know, shoot them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jean-Paul Sartre was on point, as well:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mr. Flood of DC is an example of who we can emulate. If anyone wanted to make a gang, The Floods, I'd join and travel and heckle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_thdXhmbygQ

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Make Shooting Nazis in the Face Normal Again"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I mean, we did have a 4-year long federally-funded convention for that back in the early 1940s. I’d like to see us bring that sort of energy back.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tack on a radio and a few other dudes with M4s and 203s…baby you got a fire team goin

Imagine what the Basterds could have done with some Saws or Pigs….

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine what uncle Billy Sherman could have done with saws and pigs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fire was all he needed, Sherman didn’t burn far enough

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if there's a place we can test this trivia of yours.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There's plenty of shooting ranges! If you go to a rifle range with an automatic gun rental, you can get pretty close. It's expensive, but it helps to be prepared and practice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Unrelated, just thought I'd post some trivia

Uncle Sherman knew how to use this trivia effectively.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia on M249 has this info though:

Rate of fire Cyclic: 850 rounds/min Rapid: 100 rounds/min Sustained: 50 rounds/min[2]

[2] https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN3242_TC%203-22x249%20FINAL%20WEB.pdf

also, 3,600 m (11,800 ft) effective firing range 👀. Although probably only a handful of people that can accurately hit at that range.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m confused. Is it 650 rounds per minute or 100 rounds per minute?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

650+ rounds is the cyclic rate but it will overheat if continuously fired that quickly. At 100 rpm it can be used sustainably