• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Charlie Kirk was 11 feet tall and weighed 30 tons. His skin was riveted iron and his bones were a titanium-strontium alloy. He could shoot lasers from his eyes and breathe cold fire. He was the reincarnation of jesus, pontius pilate, caesar, charlemagne, and william wallace. He was the kwisatz haderach and a close personal friend of jeffrey epstein.

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      The bullet would have gone through the earth and ricocheted off 2 billion Chinese citizens. Charlie used the LORD’s strength to protect them.

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    He flopped to the ground like a sack of potatoes. Which is probably normal if you get shot in the neck, but trying to spin that into a “Man of steel” narrative is more than a bit silly.

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            no one ever said racism is logical. modern criticism of the DPRK is heavily derivative of old yellow peril tropes. i couldn’t say if the ultralibs believe that shit because they’re personally racist, but as i saw someone say on reddit, it’s inextricably woven into the dna of north korea stereotypes

            i’m gonna drop into heavy speculation here (sorry mao) but i would expect that of the few of those types that even think about the ROK, most of them would not take kindly to them asking the american military to leave. some will say it’s because the us is a “civilizing” influence saving them from being genetically communist; some will say it’s because donald trump is pushing the world away. a lot would probably say both. i’d say both are equally reactionary, idealist, and stupid. in the end, i’m not sure it matters whether it’s rooted in personal racism or just a blanket anti-intellectualism; reactionary strains of thought tend to resemble each other well enough

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    This attempt to convert Charlie Kirk into some sort of saint is just really funny to me

    Like, I grew up Catholic, I know lots of funny stories about people who died in weird ways and got canonized for it

    Now I’m just more convinced that most of those stories were just jerks lying about their favorite assholes

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    Did they actually confirm it was a rifle round? Because me and some ex soldiers I know were guesstimating it looked like a pistol round sized entry wound.

    I was personally betting it was a .38 round while others went with a classic 9mm. I ate shit because it was a distance shot and there aren’t many carbines or rifles that do .38 that you can smuggle in easily whereas a 9mm rifle can be smuggled in via taking a glock and one of those fancy conversion kits that you just pop the pistol into and bam you got something that can reach out further than a pistol but can be broken down and hidden fairly easily.

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      I mean if we’re putting aside conspiracy level skepticism that sometimes happens on Hexbear, the rifle found is described as

      “a Mauser model 98, prosecutors said. The 30-06 caliber rifle fires cartridges slightly smaller than 8 millimeters”

      I don’t really know what that translates to in terms of kinetic damage compared to other rounds because I’m not a gun guy (yet!). But apparently it’s sufficient for killing fascists so I’ll consider it when it comes time to purchase.

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          I think that’s still considered point blank for most cartridges of the caliber, judging by a brief skim of the Wikipedia article. This this is supposed to be accurate up to ranges of 1000 yards, so a couple hundred meters is well within its full power still.

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        I’m gonna just say even at the clean end of ventilation wounds, a thirty aught six at under 200 meters isn’t gonna be pretty enough wound to look like you poked a hole in a water bottle or like a classic movie squib scene.

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          Could it have been loaded with a very low charge weight? Truly I’ve no idea if that would make a considerable difference, but it looks like some bullets on the market have much higher weights than others and, I’d assume, kinetic force too.

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            There’s always a possibility of that being so but uh you’d need to be really good at a lot of things to make that round go slow enough to not exit through that tender meat while having enough velocity to maintain its accuracy in flight. And I’m reeeeeeeeeeally doubting some dork-ass gamer from Utah has the time, money, and education to perfect the perfectly hand-loaded round that doesn’t overpenetrate like 6-10 inches of neckmeat.

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        In the video it looks like the bullet hit him in the chest center mass, but he was wearing a vest under his shirt. So it ricocheted off the vest into his neck is my theory.

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          I just read a conspiracy saying the Israelis got him by using a shaped charge explosive planted in his microphone device on his lapel. Not really how shaped charges work nor something I’d want to gamble on for an assassination disguised as a shooting but I think it’s a neat conspiracy.

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        It’s one of the original full power cartridges adopted just before WW1 for it’s range and power across no man’s land, and used in rifles and light machine guns through WW2 before being phased out during the transition to modern assault rifle calibers because the old rifle rounds were overkill at the new, shorter average ranges.

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    Okay but that’s still just “man with steel inside him” not “of steel” because if he was “of steel” his skin and blood would be steel. He’d be all steel.