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Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyway, please stay safe and don't be afraid to defend yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

More on this splendid human being:

In now deleted tweets from 2015, it’s clear Rep. Maddox has always held racist beliefs. In an October 2015 tweet, Maddox responded to someone calling President Barack Obama a “coon” by saying that “Obama is not black. He is of African ancestry, not sharing the Black American heritage or experience.”

In a March 2015 tweet, Maddox said that “childhood sexual assault and neglect” was the reason for homosexuality and that she blamed the parents and LGBTQ people for their sexual preferences.

In a January 2015 tweet she claimed Islam is a “faith about destruction” and that there are no Islamic “hospitals, orphanages or universities.”

She's a genuine shit-person. 100% real human excrement propped up with modern technology to walk and talk sorta like a real human being!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I was about to ask who even is that? But now I’d rather forget.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

New Jersey people need new glasses...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

This bitch gonna shoot down actual manned aircraft, judging by the reports

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

She should have spent that money on kitchen decoration, or a hairdo.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

Please, do NOT shoot at airborn targets, or any target where your are not certain a missed shot will safely land in an empty area.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Knowing the golden rules? No, that sounds like communism or something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Did not a bunch of People shot at a Tornado, at one point?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Also shooting down a drone counts as shooting down an actual airplane, which is like, a super felony. So probably just don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Just fly your own drone and ram into their drone. Then you pull an uno reverse and claim they hit you first. FAA aint touching this, and cops are too lazy to do anything and will say its "Civil Matter"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Also, the drone falling could hit someone or something. So seriously, don't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

Yep, that's why birdshot is basically the only safe ammo that can be shot into the air unless you're in the middle of the ocean or something.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago

If it flies, it spies

Birdwatching goes both ways

c/birdsarentreal

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

[–] [email protected] 41 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

GovCo owns the drones. The simple fact that they haven't shot them down means they own them.

This is a distraction. It's to distract people because for some reason there was a sudden unexpected explosion of class consciousness.

Stop talking about the fucking govt drones. Keep scaring billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The one I saw a picture of was a manned helicopter. (Flying in a legal area too .. which is why they aren't being shot down near a military base, because if they were a threat, in air they weren't allowed to fly in... They would be intercepted or shot down)

[–] [email protected] 170 points 23 hours ago (17 children)

Anyone who thinks they stand a chance against drones with a gun hasn't been paying attention to what's happening in Ukraine.

Gonna pew pew a CEO in the back? Sure, guns work for that.

Trying to save your own life against a fast and agile target that needs way less precision than you to be effective and probably never even presents a target? Nah mate, you're fucked.

[–] sp3tr4l 95 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (28 children)

There are some, handheld firearms that are used as a last-ditch / cheap anti drone solution in Ukraine, by both sides.

Drum roll.....

https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2024/analysis-shotguns-emerge-as-a-frontline-defense-against-drones-in-evolving-military-and-security-tactics

Its shotguns.

Because they have a spread of multiple shot pellets instead of a single bullet.

Fucking obviously duh, they've been used to hunt small, evasive birds routinely, everywhere, for like 150+ years.

Hunting a nimble flying object with a sniper rifle is a laughably absurd idea.

This actual post from this woman is so stupid I would have thought it was from a 12 year old whose only experience with guns is from CoD... but nope, its a 50ish(?) year old woman.

Guess she's never hunted birds, and thinks its just the same as hunting deer or hogs or something???

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Old people can be stupid too :-)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Shotguns just can’t stop winning

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Also, people seem to be forgetting that shotguns don't only shoot shot or slugs:

https://www.lesslethal.com/products/12-gauge/als12skymi-5-detail

[–] sp3tr4l 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I did not know an actual anti drone, net round existed!

Not especially useful against drones, nor open warfare, there are also less than lethal rubber rounds...

... and a self contained taser round:

https://www.forgottenweapons.com/taser-x12-xrep-a-taser-in-a-shotgun-shell/

I don't know if the xrep is still actually manufactured though.

Oh right! Dragon's breath! Illegal in half the country!

https://www.firequest.com/G12-113.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

People have been basically homebrewing shot gun shells since shotguns have existed. Everything from flachetes, to bolos, to XREP - even idiots that have shoved a shell full of .17 hmr rounds to see what happens. I 100% know that homebrewed anti drone shells exist and range from tying fishing line around pellets, to just launching a rope.

[–] sp3tr4l 2 points 2 hours ago

Oh yeah, I was trying to stick to retailed products, but yes, homebrew shotgun rounds have been around for basically as long as shotguns.

Another kind of homebrew shot is coin shot:

https://www.alloutdoor.com/2020/06/17/shooting-pennies-shotgun/

I've heard anecdotally that people have been doing that for quite a while.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Scoped gun for a drone OK yeah, you clearly know what you're doing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know anything about shooting or why a scoped gun is a bad thing…I know she won’t shoot down a single drone with that thing though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

A scope limits your field of view. It makes it easier to hit far away things moving relatively slowly/predictably.

It would be the opposite of helpful against a fast/close small target. There's a reason duck hunters use shotguns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Ah. Thank you. I thought it would be the limited number of shots you’d be able to take versus the oppurtunity to hit something vital in the you had.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

$100 says she barely takes that thing past 100 yards...good luck hitting a drone 400+ yards from you moving at 60mph.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And that bipod, expert gun believer right there.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Prone shooting position, check
Bipod firmly on the ground, check
Aim at drone overhead, shit…

[–] [email protected] 37 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

All she has in her house are succulents? That makes sense. They're literally the only things someone like her could possibly hope to keep alive. They need almost zero attention, maintenance, or moisture.

Just like her brain.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not a gun person, but it seems to me like anyone who claims they can shoot down a drone with a rifle is also revealing themselves to not be a gun person.

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[–] altima_neo -2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's kinda hot tho

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

refuses to elaborate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

COINCIDENCE? I think...so.

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