Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 18 2019 11:22am)
even a person with a cursory knowledge of guns could be fooled into thinking it had a much more automatic mechanism than it did. the shape of it in the picture is very similar at a glance to the gatling gun.
so i guess i have to ask, why do you think using the words "machine gun" instead of "semi automatic rifle" is a good idea? what is the benefit of one over the other?
Its not a semi-automatic rifle. It is considered the first machine gun, not the first semi-automatic rifle.
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you seem very much in support of the term "machine gun" (literally my only gripe with the meme), yet you've done literally nothing to back up the use of the term itself. you just blankly state "well technically it is a machine gun"..... yeah sure, and technically the early tractor-like vehicles that had a range of 1 mile and went 1 mph were cars, too. that doesn't mean claiming the "car" predated henry ford by 100 years is a very straightforward and honest way to present the information.
so actual truth doesn't matter and doesn't count as a reason to support it. interesting.
Do you think mentioning the existence of earlier automobiles is automatically disingenuous?
Do you think bringing them up automatically implies that they were just as good as modern cars?
no, of course not. those are attributes you are unreasonably pushing onto the claims.
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history is full of these kinds of bait-and-switch factoids. "actchualllllllly the first draft happened on this date when 2 people were pressed into service"..... as if that's at all what people think of when they hear the question...
to close, you can shove the fender-esque "false equivilence" stuff into your no-no place. i clearly said the liberals do it worse (twice), but that this is bad too. so just stop trying so damn hard, its not a good look.
Recognizing actual false equivalences and limp-wristed attempts to posture as a fair-minded centrist doesn't actually make the claims of false equivalence wrong or fender-like and it doesn't make truthful claims disingenuous when you say the word.
Believe it or not false equivalences do exist and you are making some, even if a deranged leftist falsely invokes the term sometimes.