• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    He’s like Socrates. He asks questions, and he does it with a smile. And there’s nothing controversial about saying, ‘socialism is worse than capitalism. Men and women are different. Let’s put America first,’ because that’s all he was about, putting America first.

    Guy isn’t even cold and they’re moving on to more culture war bullshit.

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    My brother in christ, your side had already deployed the military on American soil and kidnapped our neighbors, this ain’t a start of a war, it’s engaging with an active invasion.

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      What?

      Has it even been a week since Trump himself declared war on Chicago?

      Don’t act like any escalation is because one piece of shit got got. Whatever comes next was co.ing anyways.

      If what happened today has any effect on Trump’s timeline, it likely slows it down.

      Every piece of shit just got reminded that this is still America. 40% of people have easy access to a gun, and most Americans can buy one in under an hour.

      They’re going to calm down, at least in person. Violence is about the only thing that keeps fascist out of daylight, especially when they already control the government

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        This was done by someone with skills and discipline.

        It was probably deliberate, and ordered by the administration, and will be used for Trump to try to take guns away from citizens so he can start sending goons to our homes

        They started this earlier in the week with the trans gun ban speculation. And immediately Trump knew and posted when he was shot. And Fox News already has a script ready.

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            This this this. And Kirk so loved his Fearless Leader that the Leader figured Kirk would be ok knowing he would be more useful to Leader as a dead distraction than a played out influencer of youth when those youth are abandoning the R anyway.

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          I won’t say that Trump wouldn’t order the cold blooded murder of one of his allies for a small temporary gain, but

          skills and discipline.

          doesn’t sound like anything I’ve seen out of this administration

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    I love that these two bit conmen are all like “they’re at war with us?!” When they’ve been trying to incite war with “us” for the past decade or so. It’s hilarious how it’s now all our fault. Also, Jesse Watters is a cunt and a deplorable human being. Let me know when someone of worth has something to say.

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      They’re the same people who think it’s the Palestinians who are the attackers. They’re classic, boring, textbook bullies who don’t like it when the kid they’re torturing gives a free one to the nose and so they run to the teacher crying.

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    Hey Jesse, did u know liburals can study really gud? Mostly becaus3 we believe in education.

    A common long-range civilian setup: .338 Lapua Magnum, 250–300 gr (≈16–19 g) very-low-drag bullet, muzzle velocity ~850–900 m/s. Target distance: 2000 yd ≈ 1829 m.

    What happens to the bullet

    1) Drag (air resistance) does most of the work.

    Drag scales roughly with the square of speed. The bullet leaves supersonic, slows hard at first, then even more as it nears the transonic region (~Mach 1.2→0.8). A .338 LM VLD bullet often goes subsonic before 2000 yd, which adds small, messy instabilities (buffet, increased yaw). Result: time of flight stretches to on the order of 3–4 s.

    2) Gravity never clocks out.

    While the bullet is covering the 1.8 km, gravity pulls it down continuously. With realistic drag, you’re looking at dozens of meters of drop by 2000 yd—think ~40–55 m (rough scale), not centimeters. That’s why long-range optics dial many tens of mrad/MOA.

    3) Wind is a tyrant.

    Sideways air matters because the bullet lives in the airstream, not on a chalkboard. For a steady 10 mph (≈4.5 m/s) full-value crosswind, lateral drift at 2000 yd is meters, not inches—roughly 5–15 m depending on exact bullet, density altitude, and how much of the flight is subsonic. A 1 mph error can easily shove you >0.5 m off at this range.

    4) Spin drift (gyroscopic drift).

    Right-hand twist barrels impart a subtle rightward drift as the bullet’s spinning axis processes in a gravity field. At 2000 yd this is commonly ~1–2 m to the right (order-of-magnitude).

    5) Coriolis (Earth is rotating under you).

    Over a ~3–4 s flight, the Coriolis deflection is modest but real—typically tens of centimeters up to ~0.5–1 m, depending on latitude and the firing azimuth (most noticeable shooting north/south; almost none due east/west at the equator).

    6) Energy on target.

    Muzzle energy for .338 LM is ~6–7 kJ. After 2000 yd the bullet’s speed may be ~250–350 m/s, giving ~500–1000 J remaining—still serious, but a small fraction of launch energy.

    A compact worked picture (illustrative, not a firing table)

    • Cartridge/bullet: .338 LM, 250 gr (~16.2 g) VLD
    • Muzzle velocity: ~900 m/s
    • Time of flight to 2000 yd: ~3–4 s
    • Gravitational drop: on the order of 40–55 m by impact (drag-inclusive)
    • 10 mph crosswind drift: roughly 5–15 m
    • Spin drift (RH twist): ~1–2 m right
    • Coriolis: ~0.2–0.8 m scale, sign depends on azimuth/latitude
    • Impact speed/energy: ~250–350 m/s, ~0.5–1 kJ

    Why 2000 yards is “edge-of-envelope” for typical civilian rigs

    • Transonic crossing: Many .338 LM loads go subsonic between ~1500–1800 yd. Crossing transonic erodes ballistic coefficient and can perturb stability.
    • Error growth: Tiny input errors—muzzle velocity spread, wind gradient with height, density altitude shifts—balloon into meters of miss distance.
    • Angular resolution: At 1829 m, 1 milliradian ≈ 1.83 m (1 MOA ≈ 0.53 m). Your scope’s clicks, your hold estimation, and your bullet dispersion have to play nice at that granularity.

    The physics takeaway

    A 2000-yard shot is a four-second argument between inertia and atmosphere, refereed by gravity and heckled by Earth’s rotation. The bullet’s story is written by drag (v²), gravity (g), and a stack of second-order effects (wind fields, spin drift, Coriolis, aerodynamic jump), all amplified by long time-of-flight. It’s not magic; it’s compounded small physics.

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    And this is not a controversial person. This is not polarizing guy, a divisive person

    He’s like Socrates

    Fox News hosts are simply unbearable.

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    You thought a “culture war” would never turn into a “war war”?

    Aren’t you the fucking clowns that just declared war on Chicago and Portland like a week ago?