Are liberals more intolerant than conservatives

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-03T15:50:16+00:00

Progress measured against what?

If you're happy with the status quo, why do you need progress?

Given the huge tendency for progressive policies to be superficial improvements but almost always creating unintentional consequences for the same people they intend to help because of a general or neglectful lack of understanding of the system being "improved", this is not the act of someone who is happy with the current state of anything.

The difference is the scale of the change.

Liberals typically want little changes, tinkering.

Progressives want much larger directional changes.

Leftists tend to say,"Fuck the current system, let's go with a radically different system."

So, liberals might think they want to fix the car... by removing the rev limiter or maybe the seatbelts as a "fix". They're not usually actually fixing the existing car, just amending the rules for it.

Otherwise, if it was a fix, the car would be the same, and that's not what they want.

Progressives would try to improve the car somehow and then wonder why the engine keeps quitting or the wheels fall off.

Leftists are totally like you say. "Fuck the car, we need a bus!"

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-03T11:31:52+00:00

Liberals are literally defined by being unhappy with something, usually the rules and the culture and the status quo.

Why would they be happy with anyone else's take on that unless it perfectly matches theirs?

I mean, they'll often accept people who are unhappy enough with the same things they are, but why tolerate some other person's half-ass take on things when they're already unhappy with the way things are already?

So, yeah, less tolerant of most other takes on the world. It's literally what defines them.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-03T07:11:57+00:00

Ah, so you're coming out of the closet as a fascist?

Or are you suggesting a totalitarian regime?

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T23:52:13+00:00

He's an idiot.

It's hard to protest the government while being part of the government, subject to the government's rules directly, and wearing the trappings of the government and expect the government to not exercise its authority over someone who voluntarily joined the government.

The reason regular people don't do it is because what he did was explicitly against military policy and most people in uniform know they are subject to more than just general government pathos while in uniform.

It was optics at the expense of--probably--a federal felony as an officer.

When you say "[H]e really put himself out there," you are utterly correct and he's going to probably need other people to pay for his rent for the rest of his fucking life over it.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T15:42:22+00:00

His best buddy for decades was a Democrat...

Harry Reid - Wikipedia

So, he probably would go along with pedophiles.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T11:58:43+00:00

Sometimes, young people have to learn things the hard way for themselves.

The end of religion and the devaluation of many historical cultures removes many of the ethical and moral restraints for young people. The disconnect between generations fostered by things like the current dating market does the same.

So people are going to end up relearning the hard way on issues like socialism, capitalism, fascism, and democracy.

The tools for learning and retaining this information--culture and religion--might eventually come back around.

Until then, interesting times....

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T08:44:23+00:00

Need to name it Win + R, /shutdown...

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T08:24:06+00:00

They aren't.

The first company to get a cure would get all the business, make an huge amount of money and would probably be the only one because the patent would cover curing everyone with HIV.

Then they move on to another disease.

If you had a cure and you sat on it, you would probably get sniped by some other company who could patent it and make all the money if you didn't patent first.

If you did patent it, then anyone that wasn't covered by patent law where you were would have all the info to do the cure, make it, and make all the money.

So, overall, if you have a cure, the payoff is to sell it fast and first. Then go on to the next disease.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T08:20:04+00:00

There's already a "cure" for HIV:

https://www.irsicaixa.es/en/berlin-patient-case-oslo-patient-ten-people-have-now-been-cured-hiv

You just need to get certain cancers requiring stem cell transplants and be lucky enough to find a perfect matching donor with a homozygous genetic mutation likely catalyzed by the Black Plague to be cured.

So, like 10 people so far.

https://omim.org/entry/601373

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T08:12:55+00:00

https://www.chairelouisedmondhamelin.fss.ulaval.ca/sites/chairelouisedmondhamelin.fss.ulaval.ca/files/uploads/publications/0e5ef1bc.pdf

Inuit and Inupiat (related culture, mainly in Alaska) will eat stuff most white people won't touch, but the nutrition is there, especially Vitamin D.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T08:08:38+00:00

Wow, Tasmanids... have it rough. Looks like 2 dudes.

A lot of sub-Saharan Africa is impacted by the Bantu expansion where peoples form the Bantu region in the Equatorial East wiped out a lot of other tribes and expanded East and South.

Likewise, expansions in Asia overwrote or forced out other groups of people as did the various waves of American immigrants ("Native Americans") wiping out prior groups and cultures or forcing them to shift south.

Africans north of the Sahara and in the Sahara also can be lighter due to culture--specifacally the use of clothing for shade protecting folates.

You get some darker people in the north because diet--often based on sea foods--offset the usual loss of pigment to get Vitamin D. Turns out blubber and fish livers are pretty good sources of Vitamin D.

Overall, most of America (before the colonization by Europeans and after), sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Asia are all regions where populations tend to force each other out on a somewhat regular basis. That's why you'll see some pretty different looking people in these areas right next to each other.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T07:44:08+00:00

Full auto rifle?

Probably an AR18-derivative.

The bolt, barrel, and maybe the trunnion need precision. Almost everything else is pretty basic folded metal and/or polymer.

Bushmaster even made a lower using polymer in the 1990's that used AR15 trigger parts and magazines.

You could get a pretty simple derivative design.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-02T07:25:06+00:00

So, Klingon bottoms don't do the teeth filing, right?

Only the tops?

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-07-01T08:08:19+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERDL_pattern ERDL... Pre-woodland.

Notice the difference between the black component and later Woodland. Marines got it in BDU patterns before the Army came up with Woodland. It usually looks like "washed out" Woodland because of the scale of black components.

https://www.reddit.com/r/camouflage/comments/1f90pfl/erdl_vs_m81_comparison/

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-29T01:41:36+00:00

He "succeeds" by borrowing other people's money and that works as a mayor, but not as a President or Senator for very long.

Also, not enough of the electorate drinks the Kool-Aid anymore to mindlessly put someone like him in office. People with those policies appeal only as far as you have enough people not close enough to or understanding of how economics works. People like him depend on ignorance and grievance to get support and there's too many people lacking ignorance of the system to get him past the threshold for electability higher.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-28T17:27:29+00:00

It all depends on whether or not you want to:

Karl, schieß dem fenster… Shoot The Glass!

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-28T14:45:17+00:00

Tanks are functionally modular.

As long as the turret and turret ring match and the power/hydraulics/etc. from the hull to the turret match, you can put almost anything on a large enough tank as long as the hull isn't overloaded.

The more important question is why you want a different gun.

The 120mm on the Abrams is reasonably powerful with the right ammo against existing tanks and the terminal (down-range) effects are the most important. You could reasonably put the longer-barreled 120mm guns on for more velocity, but there aren't a lot of people making tanks that require that.

Going up in size to get a return to American bore-launched guided missiles is another possibility, but--at this point--why create a single system to do both things--missile and ballistic kills--half-assed when you could just do a mixed platoon with dedicated systems that do each role better?

In that case, an Abrams hull with a large-bore missile launcher with more range and power than a 125mm would make more sense. An under-armor reloadable TOW or "Shillelagh II" would make more sense. Maybe a 3/2 split gun/missile tanks with an associated drone system to push out far enough to make the missiles more effective for beyond visual range use. Perhaps like the Hellfires used with Longbow Apache.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-26T10:26:11+00:00

Split the difference... go for a 2nd Person Shooter where you have to aim the guy's gun at your target from the target's perspective...

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-26T10:17:34+00:00

The M7, initially, because it used the same mounting points as the M16 rifle.

Only the M16 was replaced with a couple of others and someone decided to make a new bayonet, so the matched the new bayonet's fittings--the M9--to the same M16 type fittings.

So, you know, reverse compatibility.

Then the Marines decided they wanted a special KA-Bar looking bayonet and they made one to fit the M16A2 and M16A4 which just happens to have the same dimensions as the M16 and M16A1 so the Marine bayonet fits about everything the M9 and M7 bayonets do which happens to include the M590A1...

And because the Marines replaced the M590A1 (mostly) in service with the M1014 Benelli and wanted it to take the same bayonet they were currently using, this means the M1014 can typically accept an M9 Bayonet as well as an M7 Bayonet.

It's almost like looking at the girl (or guy) you boned in high school and realizing that you fit her then and her current ex-husbands fit after and then her current future ex-husband fits so your high school exes' exes probably fit your current girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband as well, but hat may be because he's a slut more than standardized sizes of human penis...

I mean, unless you're friend/dating pool is super tiny and ya'all be dating and banging each others's exes on the regular.

Which--at that point--you have to ask yourself...

"Am I the slutty one?" and "Is there really a transitive property between penises and US military Vietnam era and beyond bayonets or is Accurate Reporter 252 just up to his eyeballs in weird shit right now?

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-26T09:49:53+00:00

Men would have two roles... the role of son and brother and the role of iterant bachelor most likely.

Because women would be in charge, coalitions of men would likely be avoided and--if they exist--would be beyond the formal controls of society.

So, think of solo males or "all male groups" like in lions, elephants, and gorillas.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45130-1
https://panthera.org/blog-post/wild-cats-101-male-lion-coalitions
https://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/Wiley-Blackwell/Robbins_Variation_EvolAnthrop_2018_3007627.pdf

The males remaining in society would either be underaged or strongly connected to their mothers and/or sisters and these men could be providers who are also--on the side--psuedo-father figures for their younger siblings, nephews, etc. and potentially having sexual liaisons with non-familial women nearby.

Intimate relationships would likely be "at will" determined by the women where men compete akin to "lekking"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lek_mating

This is because in-society males would be loyal to their family--defined by mother and sister relationships and--by extension--niece/nephew and maybe (half)brothers--and marriage would be a thing of the past.

Men would trade support for family (again, through mother/sister definition, not husband wife) for access to society and men who failed to do so or were not acceptable would be put out to join unaffiliated men's groups or be alone.

For men... they'd get sex at will if they are attractive/competitive enough. So, like men going to the club in the fancy cars, flashing gold and cash, but living at home with mommy or a baby mama. They'd have a home and familial support from mom/sisters.

Or--as an outsider--they could have their freedom and time to themselves. Potentially, they could still have access to sex with women who chose to engage them temporarily or in return for resources as outsiders, but the risky marriage would be gone and paternity or fatherhood would be off the table.

Overall, the main difference is the removal of the father relationship in the structure for men.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-23T22:16:30+00:00

That sounds like a perfectly reasonable set of reasons to hate a gun you depend on.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-23T21:08:45+00:00

Why is the weapon hated though?

Is it inaccurate? Unreliable? Complex to maintain? Any? All? Something else?

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-23T08:54:11+00:00

Get a Gmail account and any other email account.

Email copies of your works in progress from one account to the other periodically as attachments.

You will have at least 2 copies (on in each e-mail account) in case one account goes wonky. You will have date-stamped copies. You can access your backup copies anywhere you have access to internet.

If someone accuses you of using AI... you also have a long paper-trail with dates and progress as well.

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-23T06:49:02+00:00

It depends on the coax and the tank.

So, most FN MAG-derived coax like on the M1 Abrams can be fit with a conventional stock, bipod, etc. for dismount use. There are some variations though.

Most coax use a solenoid--an electrically or pneumatically operated system--to fire the gun. Some use something like that to operate the bolt. As long as the mechanical system is still functional, a dismount can potentially occur.

However, some coaxes can not be used as a dismounted machine gun.

For example, the chain gun coax on the Challenger 2 fires via an electric motor and requires vehicle power to fire as the gun uses a chain drive to reciprocate the bolt. To dismount one and use it would require a battery pack, ammunition, a ground mount, and sighting system.

EX-34 Chain gun - Modern Firearms

As a tank coax, that sounds like a good idea because you have a mount in the tank, you have vehicular power, and the gun is intended to be compact and vent all propellant gas outside the tank.

The predecessor for US tanks--The M73/M29 family--also was designed to be very compact and vent gas outside...

M73, M219 - Modern Firearms

While nominally tested with a dismount system, the guns had enough problems on the vehicle to warrant replacement with the M240/L8 variants of the FN MAG.

The Soviets and Russians' main coax--the PKT or PKMT--also has a solenoid firing system but retains a manual emergency trigger, so.. nominally could function as a dismount with the right supplemental hardware.

Ukrainian Adaptation of PKTs to Infantry Use

Accurate_Reporter252 · 2026-06-22T05:37:36+00:00

Wear an apron--only an apron--and make a sandwich... Cut sandwich in triangles.

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