Message from @Alexmikli
Discord ID: 427515964486189076
you have to watch it to understand
it's not something you can explain
the easy form is culture clash but it's way more
That's why I really liked that Vice doc called This is what Winning looks like.
About marines trying to work with afghanis.
And how much of a struggle that is when you don't really understand their situation, and what you do understand, they don't
You mean Empire of **Dust**?
yeah, that's what I thought he was talking about
It isn't that I think Africa is Dust
but it's called Empire of Dust
ok Empire of Dirt
that's worse
Empire of Dirt is a NIN song that was covered by Johnny Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc
Empire of Dirt was wriiten by people like me
"please provide source"
"my source is [verb]"
"gee thanks for that useful link to the source you're getting your stats from"
I don't see anyone providing links on that screenshot though.
I'm compiling them
I was quoting offhand like 20 studies I've seen over the years that puts gun ownership at being aroudn 40% of US households
and since there are 300 million Americans I spitballed the number.
I'm not sure where he's getting specifically 55 million from and that seems really low or incomplete.
Like that'd be the number of AR-15 owners.
I'm not sure if I want to even try with this guy though
He's so far up his own ass.
Turns out we were both wrong and it was somwhere between the two numbers depending on which of the many conflicting polls you read, being somewhere between 50 and 80 million
But the guy never actually provided any actual sources and just kept insulting me so I'm done with this
I did some math
can't find a way it's 55 million
but whatever man
I tried to give him a bone
Lel
Last I heard the number was 99 million
With the share of total households down, but the absolute number continuing to rise
Household thing might just be because of demographic transition to cities and thus more "households" of 20 somethign people living alone