@Ruggwain okay imagine you're a widget maker, how would you corner the market on widgets?

explain

How can you corner me out of the market?

so what stops me from making my own distribution network?

but if you're running your business and overpricing your glasses, I could offer a better deal to your distributors

@Ruggwain oligaopolies run into the same problem as monopolies

seems I can't post images anymore

did I get demoted?

gotta level up

and soon pony posting starts

Corinthian helmet during the mycenean period?

yay I levelled up

prepare for ponies

I think the world needs pinochet

Pretty much

So real talk

Will telescopic ammo ever be used?

There are issues with caseless

Like how do you clear a malfunctioning round?

Well a lot of older guns were bag guns

With a separate powder charge

Lol, since when?

Usually only nutter ancoms support gun rights

@Broo TulsiGang 2024 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 but that's usually to support their violent revolutionaries

It's a tactic, not a principal

@Baraban but you have to be practical

You need weapons to he soldier proof

Be*

But I don't think you can ever solve the issue of ammo failing

And if normal ammo fails, you just cycle the weapon

Might as well stick with telescopic ammo then.

But you can clear a telescopic gun

Well if you allow a case less gun to have an ejection port, why have a case less gun at all?

Might as well go for telescopic ammo which has the same advantage

A gun can miss fire for other reasons

A bullet doesn't have to jam to stop a gun from functioning

Light primer strike, bad propellant, bad primer

@Baraban but again, if you're a soldier on the field, you want to be able to clear misfires in a jiffy.

Ask the samurai on the other end of this gun.

is it full of worthless commies?

how many pinochet memes would I have to post before I'm banned?

damn, still can't post pictures

this place is literal communism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTWCwqmgLc

ask the samurai in this clip

swords are so much better than guns

you know I wonder if there is a good case to be made for electronically fired ammunition

so

Taxation is theft, change my mind

It doesn't, helicopter passenger

I'm going full ancap now

Social contract doesn't real

Show me my signature on the social contract

then I'll follow it

I didn't sign that

Prove that I did

Prove that I signed my birth certificate

so the state is a gang

good

at least you're honest

srs talk, the state is a criminal gang

change my mind

@RemoteObserver How is state sponsored violence ethically different from a private individual or group doing it?

if I'm a gang, am I ehtically different if I suddenly call myself "The Government Gang" am I ethically justified?

so ethics don't exist?

Well give me a definition that is consistent

give me a definition that I can apply to any organisation equally

What is gang violence?

good

so the government is a violent gang?

I wasn't questioning that

I just like a bit of ideological honesty

But the state can't exist without being violent

and therefore unethical

no

I don't see defending yourself as "violence"

that's self defence

But the state has to use aggessive violence to exist

They levy taxes

theft is violent

is there a government that doesn't tax?

@Fitzydog you sound like someone who is being beaten

suuuure

okay, I'll stop being a troll

@Fitzydog can this government exist without taxation?

even the most simple?

@SOTGOR but still they need to fund themselves

usually through taxes

and taxation is theft