Comments by "R" (@rdrrr) on "Brandon Herrera" channel.

@stefthorman8548 Good point, skeletal structure is a big part of sex differences too.
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@biekgiek Sure, but the modern left-wing ideology friendly definition is circular and therefore meaningless. A woman is anyone who says they're a woman. Descriptivism is fine but words still have to mean something. And do note that many people do not subscribe to aforesaid definition, so it's not fair to say "that's what it means now, get used to it". The dust hasn't settled yet. And I feel like the pendulum is swinging back and 2010s progressivism will be dialled back a little, the same way 70s liberalism gave way to 80s conservatism. The current trendy definition may not be for keeps.
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@snperkiller1054 Probably the best definition, wish I'd thought of it. D'oh!
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@biekgiek I responded to this but my comment vanished. YT has been behaving oddly for a while. Often it takes some time for comments to appear. If it doesn't, then the short version is "I'm not a fan of circular definitions, and since cultural mores are in flux right now, we'll see if your preferred definition sticks or not."
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@sidecharacter7165 9mm can blow lungs out of the body etc. etc. I hate it. There are logical reasons to argue for gun control. I thoroughly disagree with them and believe them to be un-American, but my point is you don't need to resort to bullshit. So why do so many liberals resort to bullshit? It poisons the well and makes productive discussion impossible.
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@biekgiek The better definition is this thread was "XX chromosomes". I wish I'd said that instead. The small number of cases where someone is born with abnormal sex chromosomes doesn't disprove them working as an unambiguous sex marker in every other instance. Personally, I think you have to respect clearly identifiable sex differences or things get silly. Take sports for example - unless you consider it optimal for women's sports to be dominated by individuals born male, which seems anti-feminist if you ask me.
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@biekgiek I made another comment that YT didn't post correctly. It was "the short version" of that comment. Human sexuality isn't binary, but we were talking about sexual characteristics, not sexual preferences. If you're going to argue terminology, don't mix up sex and sexuality. It'll undermine your argument.
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@Mis73rRand0m Yeah, the 0.1% of cases don't disprove the 99.9%, or we could argue that seatbelts don't prevent car crash injuries because in some freak circumstances you might've theoretically been better off not wearing one.
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@biekgiek No, "feminine" is the social construct. "Woman" is biological. If you eliminate the biological component of the definition of "woman", then anyone who claims to be a woman is. This is meaningless. Alternatively, you have to define "woman" as being "anyone that acts like a woman", which reduces the meaning of "woman" to stereotypes. You keep confusing sex, gender and sexuality. I don't think you should be telling people how to use words, personally. Now that I've got the measure of you I don't see any need to keep going, so I'll cut it off here and keep things civil.
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@snperkiller1054 "Woman" means someone who is biologically female and an adult. Biology is biology. Every culture has a concept of adulthood and while the age at which you're considered an adult varies the general concept is the same. So saying "well ackshually woman is a social construct" is a useless thing to say. So your correction is not a correction, it's persnickety postmodern nonsense. Sorry.
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@biekgiek You're not engaging with people honestly, you're assuming you're correct as of right and being a jackoff about it. I mean really dude, "I'm glad I could help expand your outlook on life"? I was hoping you might have something interesting to say, but sadly you brought standard-issue liberal talking points and a smug attitude. If that's all you got, take it elsewhere.
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@Countryredneckhillbillybubba I just noticed the dude has an upload on his channel... ...he looks EXACTLY like you'd expect him to, lmao. Bet dude has 100,000 wholesome Reddit karma and loves overpriced IPAs. I shoulda just dragged him for that rather than debating seriously like a gaylord 🤣
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 @TheXXxOblivion They invented some wild stuff but German industry had been crippled by bombing so badly they couldn't have manufactured much of it
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@leonrussell9607 Whenever people descend to the level of name-calling it's because they can't think of an actual argument
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It's not even necessarily $2,000 better than a $3,000 racegun with a more conventional action. If the Alien's system is really a winner then expect to see it copied in more affordable pistols over the next 5-10 years. IMO the Alien's $5,000 pricetag is basically an early adopter tax. A VHS recorder would cost you about $1,500 in 1977, and an average of $300 in 1985. We could see $1,000 guns with an Alien-derived action by the end of the decade.
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The StG-45(M) is very cool. The ancestor of all H&K roller-delayed firearms.
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Why would you want that, though? The only interesting thing about the Tokarev is its cartridge. There are an infinite number of fantastic 9mm pistols, why would you want an old, clunky Soviet museum piece with finicky sights, stubby pistol grip, small magazine and a mediocre trigger?
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YouTube is definitely trying to squeeze out Guntubers in a deniable way. The powers that be don't like the idea of kids and teens being influenced by Guntube politics. They'd much rather kids and teens soak up psychotic far-left politics from Disney/video game essayists or whatever. TL;DR it's fine if a content creator grooms young viewers into cutting their genitals off but making a kid think guns are cool? UNFORGIVEABLE.
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@worldoftancraft I've seen that Romanization system before and it terrifies me. It makes Russian look like Vietnamese. Yes, it's a more accurate way to transcribe Russian phonemics, but "nnyj"? That is a downright hideous consonant cluster.
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You'd love the WW1-era "Mars" pistol. A giant hand cannon... and the action can be described as "miniaturized artillery piece". It was designed by ex-Naval officer and certified madman Hugh Gabbett-Fairfax. Apparently it was so unpleasant to shoot that British trials noted "no one who fired it once wished to fire it again".
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IMO it's basically fine. The sights are adequate (a little small and fine but better than many pistols of the era), the trigger's fine, the single-stack mag is typical of the era, the cartridge is pretty cool conceptually although it's a little expensive and there aren't many good loads for it. The two big problems are the lack of a manual safety and the short pistol grip and the import Yugo M57 solves both these issues. It's still not a good pistol by modern standards but it's functional and has a certain swag. The M57 does have a magazine disconnect. Not hard to disable but if you ever had to use the pistol in a self-defense situation (imagine smoking someone with a Tokarev) the fact you'd modified the pistol might not look great in court. Probably best as a fun range toy. Loads of flash and noise, really turn some heads.
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 @rhysmodica2892 That would be the M3 Carbine
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@matthewhager283 Enjoy being cucked by an authoritarian government, then. We all saw the histrionic way the Australian government responded to the Chinese flu. Bet you loved it too. Stockholm - or is that Canberra? - syndrome is a hell of a thing.
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Expense, complexity (more complex = harder to maintain, less reliable with age) and also gas-delayed pistols get pretty hot if you shoot a lot of rounds out of 'em in one sitting (you might not think this is a big deal but for a race gun it potentially is - depends on the nature of the competition).
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@Afes Arak Extra weight will reduce recoil, extra barrel length will reduce muzzle flash.
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A big part of the reason the Soviets chose 7.62x25 as their pistol cartridge was because they could reuse 7.62x54r machinery and tooling. And if you had a damaged 7.62x54r barrel you could cut it down to serve as a 7.62x25 barrel for a submachinegun or pistol. So it was mostly a matter of logistics.
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How about you stop posting your dumbshit political polemics on a gun channel? I don't look up drag queen storytime videos just to rant about how they're degenerate.
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I am firmly of the opinion that if you are a gun grabber it's hypocritical to entertain yourself by watching gun channel content It's like being a feminist and jacking it to hardcore porn, it's just incongruent
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@martinjrgensen8234 I guarantee China's procurement and logistics is every bit as fucked as Russia's. China just hasn't had the chance to embarrass itself that bad yet.
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@jonnyw82 Probably been sold for hashish by now I mean just because the Taliban took possession of 'em doesn't mean they have the means to maintain them. And now they're no longer fighting the government but actually are the government I can definitely see them engaging in rampant corruption
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@stacktus9158 62gr doesn't have sufficient stopping power? Then just use 77gr Mk262 rounds. Much cheaper than designing a hot as fuck cartridge that rapidly wears out the load-bearing parts of the overweight rifle that chambers it.
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A lot of Civil War vets were still around in RDR2's time, and the Gatling was what they were familiar with I guess through its ubiquity in the Old West it got the Xerox treatment and every machine gun got called a Gatling, at least until the Maxim displaced it in the public consciousness (I guess that'd be due to WW1) I wouldn't be surprised if every WW1-era machinegun got called a "Maxim" by doughboys
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@Joshua Bressel Good point about the unchromed barrel and chamber, although the corrosion issues were certainly exacerbated by poor ammo and lack of cleaning kits. Makes sense that quality magazines fix most feed issues.
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The stamped steel receiver is very old-world industrial. Beautiful in an unadorned, functional way
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Chambered in THE ubiquitous modern cartridge. Viable conceal carry option. If you can conceal that absolute cannon somehow...
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Keeping springs under compression is not ideal but it takes a long time for it to do any real damage to the magazine. After one year I don't think there will be a problem. Only way to know for sure is to shoot the pistol and see how the magazine functions. What really wears springs out is constantly cycling between compressed and uncompressed, which would happen if you shoot the pistol a lot. You can replace magazine springs, worth keeping some spare.
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The M16A4 weighed 8.7lbs with a loaded 30 round magazine. The XM7 weighs just under 9.9lbs with a loaded 20-round magazine (without the suppressor). Basic combat load of the XM7 will be 7 magazines, that's 140 rounds at just under 10lbs total. Basic combat load of 5.56 is also 7 magazines, that's 210 rounds at 7.5lbs. The XM7's ammunition weighs twice as much per round. Yeah, the XM7 has a lot more stopping power / will be more effective against body armor... but I'm not convinced the majority of likely adversaries actually deploy body armor in the quantities needed to justify the expense - and weight - or that 5.56mm M855 will actually fail to consistently penetrate, say, Chinese body armor anyway. We saw that Russia didn't have anything like the equipment they pretended to when they went to war. China is also a corrupt autocracy, I'm willing to bet a lot of their apparent capability is bullshit too. Shit, wouldn't it be a reasonable decision just to standardise Mk 262 77gr 5.56 ammo instead? Wouldn't make the military-industrial complex horny enough, I guess.
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@noble00006 I don't think anything the guntube community can do will really change YouTube's attitude to firearms. YouTube is using its platform to push an anti-gun agenda. The most sensible solution I've seen so far is this new "Pepperbox" project. Previous attempts to compete with YT have failed but Pepperbox has a specific enough purpose and strong enough reason to exist that it might actually work out.
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@Camandersol Way I see it, the Police exist to defend the government first and citizens a distant second. I don't trust them. I consider them, at best, a necessary evil.
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@Camandersol Way I see it, the police exist to defend the government first and citizens like you and me a distant second. I don't trust them. They are, at best, a necessary evil.
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I guess it was done so they could reuse the Fallout 3 Assault Rifle (which is basically an HK53) anims. The Gamebryo engine is a mess and it's really hard to add weapon anims to it. New Vegas had a short dev cycle (18 months) forced on it by the publisher so I guess Obsidian didn't have the time or inclination to hack around Gamebryo's limitations. All that said it's still cursed, lol.
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@FinalSynapse Don't worry sir, it's just banter. I'm English and I love Polish people. You're the best immigrants we've ever had.
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 @Hughjanus454 Hey, it's the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Don't let feds harsh your buzz. Legalize all that shit!
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I think YT has a problem with guntubers in particular and is trying to push them off the platform in a deniable way. Why would YT have a problem with guntubers? I think it's because they don't want kids to be influenced by guntube politics. Note that YT are fine with Communist Disney and video game essayists...
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Raccoon You need it to be shorter? Governments aren't in power because the people wish them to be. They're in power because the police and the military keep them there. Governments are inherently coercive entities. Maybe you think you're getting a good deal, maybe not - but you didn't get a choice in the matter.
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The "12.7mm SMG" from Fallout, but real. My God.
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@Br3ttM Precisely. YouTube is owned by Google. Like all the other major tech corpos, Google loves to ram woke politics down your throat (while engaging in all sorts of unethical behavior such as using sweatshops and child labor, tax evasion, union-busting, insider trading etc.)
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@ Thanks. I enjoyed "The Death of Stalin" a lot, I understand it's not real history but more of a representation of how it "felt" to live through that era. For a start the film suggests all the events after Stalin's death happened within one week where in fact I think it spanned about 3 years. Also you have a cool username. If I remember right Russia's first royal dynasty was founded by a Viking named Rurik.
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I read a book called "Death and the Penguin" set in 90s Ukraine and the militiaman character has heard so much gunfire on the streets he can immediately tell what gun made the sound. He hears a shot in the distance... "That one is Tokarev semi-automatic. THAT one is Stetchkin".
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