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Arce confronted the general commander of the Army — Juan José Zúñiga, who appeared to be leading the rebellion — in the palace hallway, as shown on video on Bolivian television. “I am your captain, and I order you to withdraw your soldiers, and I will not allow this insubordination,” Arce said.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/nx-s1-5020668/bolivia-coup-attempt

“I’m in charge here.”

“Oh, fuck, you are? Let me check my chain of command- damn. Yep, says right here. I’ll go back to my barracks now and wait to be arrested.”

Peak noncredibility, I love how weird the world is some days.

“Bolo” isn’t meant to tie something up like a normal bolo, it just allows the round halves to widen out and disperse energy across a wider area.

I figured it was like chain shot, just without a clear purpose beyond “Because we can”

For the comic itself:

So, a derringer is a small pistol, usually with two shots, made for close-range self-defense. Normally they use, well, pistol rounds, like a 9mm, which has like, 700 joules of energy or someshit like that. When you fire a lightweight gun, you definitely get some kickback from it, even with a pistol round.

A 45-70 is a big-ass rifle round with something like 4000 joules of energy behind it. You uh, you put that in a little derringer and pull the trigger, both you and your target are gonna feel it.

This also might help put it into perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i89cMnfxXy0

For the comment, hardcast is a hardened bullet alloy (lead bullets are heavy but soft; alloying it with other metals makes it harder) for when you need to get through something thick, like a boar, or a human being’s entire fucking body. Not sure about thunderhead or CFA. 410 is a shotgun caliber. Dragon’s Breath is a fun little round that replaces the bullet with pyrotechnics, while flechettes spray you with these ugly little things.

A bolo round is apparently a bolo but fired from a gun. I’ve never heard of it before today but let me just say that I love the weird things people come up with.

Davy Crockett derringer when

Don’t think it’s meant to be reformer-level “OLD TANK GOOD, NEW TANK BAD”

Just a little silly, a funny little guy made of iron

It’s reasonable to assume the US would be the aggressor (the ratio of countries invaded since WW2)

What

and all their weapon components are refined and manufactured in or around China; rare earths, chips, etc.)

There’s a reason we have the National Defense Stockpiles

They would have to win quickly and dominate completely: read brutally.

What

♪ Kill for gain or shoot to maim ♪

♪ We don’t need a reason ♪

Pelopidas, the first commander of the Sacred Band, was part of an uprising against a Theban oligarchy and one of the statesmen involved in the new Theban democratic regime. Lived a humble and modest life, gave most of his wealth away, led an untried unit to some of the most glorious victories of his day, and died as he lived - fighting tyranny like a badass. I’d pay my own blood to see a miniseries around him.

The Sacred Band was instrumental, even, in destroying Spartan hegemony, which championed oligarch regimes, and beginning a period of Theban hegemony, which championed democratic regimes.

This is still one of my favorite historical exchanges of all time:

The Theban force was heavily outnumbered by the Spartans opposite them. The Sacred Band numbered some 300 hoplites, while the Spartan garrison consisted of two companies (mori), meaning that the Spartan force contained between 1,000 and 1,800 hoplites. Plutarch reports that one Theban soldier, upon seeing the enemy force, said to Pelopidas “We are fallen into our enemies’ hands,” to which Pelopidas replied “And why not they into ours?” Pelopidas then ordered the Theban cavalry to charge while the infantry formed up into an abnormally dense formation. When the two phalanxes came together, the compact Theban formation broke through the Spartan line at the point of contact, then turned to attack the vulnerable flanks of the Spartans to either side. The Spartan force broke and fled, although the Theban pursuit was limited by the proximity of Orchomenus.

Explanation: Romans had a neat little trick that was trotted out from time to time where they would form a kind of testudo so their comrades could use the shields as a ramp. It was actually an effective tactic for assaulting low walls and camp ramparts! No need to clamber up while some sod stabs at your grasping fingers, you can hop up and face him like a MAN.

As you can see in the second picture, using military gear of one’s comrades for a quite literal boost is still a tactic some 2000 years later!

I hope this is on-topic enough. I enjoy NCD but I’m not always sure where the line is with regards to historical military practice memes vs. modern defense memes and plane-fucking

No, no, you don’t get it, Russia is the GOOD guy for trying to stop the globalhomo grain from infecting and exploiting The Global South™

Pro-Russia? NCD? Of course not! But we all know NCD still loves the bad girls and SU-75 femboys. Besides, Russian equipment isn’t inherently bad - holsum NATO ownership can change them.

If only Ukraine had serviced Russia’s military after it invaded them; then Russia’s military wouldn’t have been provoked into invading them 😔 /s

There’s no longer a viable breeding population

Hey now, I can hear!

I can also attest that it’s true, it’s just the reverse of the Russian situation. Instead of 20% functional and 80% shit, I lived in the 20% that’s shit instead of the 80% that’s functional. Getting out was priority #1 to me.

We… probably should do something about it.

One of the more disturbing incidents of my life was making a delivery with a friend to some private hunting cabin deep in Appalachia, and I mean, we’re already IN Appalachia, so, DEEP. And we drove past, in the deep woods, the most awful, dilapidated shacks and decaying trailers. God, they were fucking piecemeal, and yet, very clearly still lived in. I remember being disturbed as we drove up to the steel and barbed wire fence on the road and getting buzzed in the last mile or so to the cabin, and getting there, and it was just this… villa. Like, you walk in and it’s got a fucking chandelier. It’s not a ‘cabin’ except in the loosest sense. They had private catering, a massive area of woodlands reserved for them, all of that.

I found the proximity… unnerving. Like a rich man eating caviar next to a starving beggar.

Jesus Christ

S-Saddam says trans rights??

Nah, Israel keeps cope cages.