what makes me uncomfortable is when fellow leftists think that even the most anodyne pacifistic daydreams of america's fall are 'fucking terrifying' or 'nihilistic' and use marginalized communities as ideological human shields to run defense for american empire like it isn't currently killing homeless and trans people everywhere it goes and wouldn't do much more of that if its hegemony were less precarious.

shoulders have a lot of arteries, but bullets are small and there are plenty of places to be shot that won't kill you. you pretty much want to aim for the heart, lungs, and/or central nervous system to ensure the target is down.

in CQB situations headshots can be necessary and practical, but we are talking about ranges where you do not have space to fully use your iron sights or where a standard rifles zero distance is too far away for the sights to be effective (there are aiming techniques with AR platform rifles for ranges under about 50 meters where you line up the front post with the top of the rear sight ring instead of the center, and aim that intersection at the target's head, but this may only work on full length ARs or with certain sights and gun setups). at extreme CQB ranges the incidental or post-death firing of the person you just shot actually has a realistic chance of hitting you, and operating in CQB you often have to be careful with your shots to avoid hitting civillians or hostages (through walls or in the room) making rapid or automatic fire a poor choice in certain situations. if you are not worried about civillians or infrastructure you simply don't do door-breaching SWAT style CQB, you chuck grenades or a satchel charge into the building or light it up with the .50's from a mile away or call in a mortar strike or something.

however when shooting at someone from range like this, you should definitely aim center mass, unless you are like a GIGN sniper trying to take out a target with a hostage or a detonator, then you aim for the brain stem, but most SWAT style sniping is done at close range, not more than across the street of the target building, and with a scope.

but if we are being real, sniping or shooting at all is a poor way to assassinate someone. to ensure the target is eliminated, the CIA for example recommends explosives deployed from close range (i.e. strap a brick of C4 to them, shove a grenade into their mouth, etc., just throwing or launching a grenade in the room isn't always enough) or blunt force trauma to the head.

i literally just got that text like 15 seconds after reading this lmfao

based kim training the populace to be ninjas with comically difficult anime training regimens (pulling trains, strapped to missiles, forced to hunt rats for survival, etc.)

yea, especially for military models of historical and real stuff.

even if i were to accept that, it only moves the goalposts of understanding linguistically. what is the soul made of? where is it? how does it interact with our body? these questions make sense whether you use the word 'soul' or 'consciousness', and regardless of your ontology

yes, i definitely feel that as someone that loves offroad vehicles and racing in general

hmm now why might a country like america need a bunch of air support so far from its borders all the time? most other countries seem to get along fine with only one or two carriers or none at all...

thats basically already what they are, most aircraft carriers have at least one other level on the inside where aircraft are stored and maintained, and there is usually a big paved elevator platform to move aircraft between the flight deck and the interior hangars

this seems true for pretty much any male-dominated hobby, men ruin everything they form communities around. its true for games, guns, history, military, sci fi, martial arts, metal music, anime, etc.. how do straight men even stay attracted to straight women, they gatekeep each other out of their hobbies (or rather, men gatekeep both women from 'men's hobbies' and men from 'women's hobbies'), idk how any straight couple survives without shared interests other than fucking. like the stereotypical boomer couple doesn't do anything together except eat.

also his ukraine takes