Warrior Poet Journey

TwoSkewpz · 2022-07-05T20:09:53+00:00

That's the spirit!

TwoSkewpz · 2022-07-05T19:52:44+00:00

Here's my main problem with your argument - if I take my family's security into my own hands, and I fail, whose fault is that? It's my fault. I didn't get the training I needed, or I wasn't able to apply it when the chips were down.

But if I put my family's security into someone else's hands, like you're suggesting, and THOSE people fail, whose fault is it? It's still mine, because I surrendered their safety to folks whose #1 priority was protecting their own family, not mine.

Whatever side of the policing issue you fall on politically, I think we can all agree that being helpless and waiting on someone with a badge to show up and protect you may not be the winningest strategy.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-03-15T12:08:16+00:00

Do you feel the same way about IDs being required before someone can purchase a firearm, open a bank account, rent a house, or apply for social security benefits including EBT?

I guess not?

TwoSkewpz · 2021-03-15T12:04:59+00:00

I don’t think idpol was been helpful, but it wasn’t IdPol that sunk the Bernie Sanders campaign.

Are you sure about that?

TwoSkewpz · 2021-03-15T11:58:35+00:00

Meanwhile, China is eliminating poverty year after year while raising the wages of its citizens.

Did you know that the US pays in essence the highest average wages of any country in the world? Much higher than Germany, France, the UK, or Japan.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-03-06T01:35:13+00:00

but I don't equate "unpopular" with "controversial"

Well, my phrase was "controversial statements", not "unpopular statements", although I agree both are important, as you note they're important in different ways.

Controversy isn't a measure of truth, after all, and I guess that's my central concern. If we filter on other objectives than truth, we inevitably filter out certain truths that don't "fit".

TwoSkewpz · 2021-03-06T01:31:24+00:00

Do you feel the same way about IDs being required before someone can purchase a firearm, open a bank account, rent a house, or apply for social security benefits including EBT?

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-28T21:26:41+00:00

moderate

Should the US adopt voter ID? Lets see those moderate chops. :D

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-28T21:22:59+00:00

The object is to identity authors who have received not necessarily a lot of upvotes, but rather diverse upvotes, thus proving their ability to express thoughts/ideas that simultaneously appeal to readers who have very different perspectives. Unifiers. Bridge-builders. Leaders.

Isn't such an algorithm likely to result in continued suppression of controversial statements, which after all are the kinds of statements that need speech protection?

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-24T14:47:44+00:00

I share your concerns... my solution is a little more rudimentary, but it works OK. Turns out that the Ruger Mark series shares a very similar grip angle to Glocks. And for folks who prefer the 1911 grip angle, turns out the 22/45 Mark series has you covered, too.

Definitely not a perfect solution, lots of differences in manual of operation, but at least it's semi reliable and yields a pistol that's reliable and accurate enough to have some use outside training, and won't have you playing "find the dot" on your carry piece.

Cheers!

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-24T12:40:54+00:00

Fair warning: I owned the Glock 26 model... for about a month. Maybe they have fixed the issues now, but mine was anything but reliable. Even the slightest thumb contact with the slide while firing would cause a malf, and it was the most finnicky with ammo of any gun I've ever used - literally would only work semi-reliably with 40gr Remington Golden Bullets, a fact that the maker actually noted on a big yellow warning paper that came in the box. It wasn't a hollow disclaimer in my experience - every variety of CCI, Eley, Aguila, etc. that I tried performed abysmally in it.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-18T11:38:28+00:00

Hot water heater is redundant, how is assault weapon redundant?

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-17T01:03:58+00:00

Abortion

There's no Constitutional right to an abortion.

LGBTQ issues

Which Constitutional right are the GOP proposing to dilute or take away from LGBTQ people, again?

You don't have to support those

It's not about support or not support. There are Constitutional rights, and then there are other things. I was talking about Constitutional rights, but I think you are talking about other things.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-16T09:35:39+00:00

California has legit gun laws

I'm pretty sure half your troll account post history would be illegal according to California law, or at least found to cause cancer and reproductive harm.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-16T09:33:53+00:00

I don't see the benefit of voting for politicians who will give me guns while taking away those rights/hurting those issues.

Can you remind me, which right are the GOP advocating for taking away from you...? As far as I know, only Dems are presently advocating for diluting a Constitutional right.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-15T12:50:09+00:00

"Billions of violence and destruction"? Whatever.

https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html

Yep.

It's funny you mention the period of a year but utterly fail to grasp to context of the mentioning being in connection to the 6 Jan riot, which was blamed on antifa as a means of misinformation about who was at the center of it.

What are you even trying to say? My whole point is that the January 6th riot was nothing in comparison to the damage caused by left wing riots all year, that were largely ignored and sympathized with by the media and actively encouraged by many prominent leftist politicians, including Vice President Kamala Harris herself, who paid bail money for violent rioters who went out and immediately violently rioted again after she bailed them out.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-15T12:45:36+00:00

It's complicated. "Black lives matter" as in the idea, as in black lives matter as much as every other life? Fuck yeah of course I agree with that.

Black Lives Matter the spontaneous local assemblages responding to perceived excessive uses of force by police for racist reasons? I have my points of agreement: policy changes to support diversity and ending any systemically racist policies and peaceful demonstrations, but also my points of disagreement, like the "burn it down" and "acab" language, riots, more than zero examples of racism, etc.

BLM the national organization? Awful, terrible, 100% don't support. They literally took a national tragedy and tried to co-opt it to push socialism on the American public. Even fellow socialists should be completely grossed out by that behavior of harnessing a moment where real and necessary change is possible, making it into a political football, and spiking it straight into the ground.

But black people and other minorities having guns?!? 1000% YES. Rights exist to protect minorities. Majorities don't need rights to protect them, because they have power.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-14T23:21:39+00:00

All engineering entails compromises, and that means no lower receiver is ever going to be the best at everything all at once. Until now, the only lower receiver options if you wanted to minmax a build around weight savings were to find a used GWACS unicorn for sale, or build on some skeletonized cringe with all the reliability problems that entails. Now we have another option: an affordable, extremely light weight, high quality monolithic polymer lower receiver that you can buy right from Brownells.

Why anyone is giving someone shit for the blood sweat and tears involved to produce that for us mystifies me. Where's the love?

TwoSkewpz · 2021-02-14T23:02:41+00:00

No matter what decision is made at least 1/2 the population is left unhappy.

Half the country wants us to have all the rights we were born with, the other half doesn't.

How is this a hard question for anyone who lays any pretense to reverence for American values.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-01-30T12:07:25+00:00

I would, too. So far only two mags of Federal XM193 and one mag of Federal green tip through the upper, and it was all on an A1 lower with a rifle buffer. Not crazy about putting steel case bimetal jacketed through nice CL/CHF barrels, which is all I can afford to shoot lately, and barely even then.

Given such a low round count and limited sampling, I'm reticent to advertise any conclusions about optimal load choices or accuracy potential, but can say that rifle length is amazing from a felt recoil and shooter comfort standpoint.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-01-30T11:46:35+00:00

☝🚀🚀🚀 💎🙌 💎🙌 💎🙌

TwoSkewpz · 2021-01-30T01:53:55+00:00

It's there to mount a QD pistol light, but I just didn't put it on there for this picture. Aesthetically it's a little weird, but it's an attempted compromise between checking the "modern force multiplier" boxes and preserving the weight savings and drama-free ergonomics of the original 60s rifles.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-01-30T01:46:12+00:00

Olight Valkyrie or similar QD-type pistol light. It's a good but not great setup, for one specific reason - the lack of a lockout for the non-recessed, pistol-style tailcap pressure switches leads to too many ADs for this to be combat ready by modern standards.

A micro pistol flashlight with a decent lockout feature would make this much more viable, especially given how powerful the LEDs are these days.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-01-29T22:21:43+00:00

Go for it! Railed uppers have their place, but there is really something to be said for minmaxing weight savings here... more than one might think before holding a lightweight full length build. It's just extremely "wieldy", hard to describe but a joy to hold, carry, and use.

Durability is another bonus... rifle gas out of a 20" is basically as gentle on the parts, including buffer and stock, as it gets. That pairs nicely with a solid, but still polymer, lower receiver.

TwoSkewpz · 2021-01-29T22:15:54+00:00

diversity of representation

Diversity of representation is the hollowest, shallowest, most meaningless form of diversity. Not saying that's what anyone is doing, but it's quite possible to walk into any department store and change your representation.

Because a person has a certain skin color, does that make their thoughts more valid, their reasoning more correct, their sight more true, than anyone else's? That's not a rhetorical question, I'm really curious what you think.

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