Birb_at_Arms

It probably needs to be an object whose main function is toasting bread, so an engine block doesn't work but a stove top toaster does.

This way, when the villain traps the hero in a room with no toasters, he can heroically MacGyver one out of a coat hanger and soldering wire

"We regrettably have no choice but to enact xenophobic policies and erode the charter rights of new Canadians"

-"Or we could just build more housing"

"Look, you need to be reasonable here"

You'd never lose a game of crossing cups, that's for sure

Part of it is just American cultural influence.

Another part, I think, is that Canada in particular stopped building housing and increased immigration at about the same time, which probably suggested to some that immigration caused high housing prices (when it's actually dysfunctional planning).

Somehow I feel like the words "sorry, we can't do that because Belgium says no" would never leave the lips of the leader of an actual fascist regime

TV plot where the protagonist pretends to have telekinetic powers, while desperately working to hide the fact that the only objects he can manipulate this way are toasters.

"Help! I'm trapped under a burning car! Please use your powers to lift it off."

*Throws toaster through window*

"On it!"

The gravel one is probably the most economically lucrative, but the toaster one would be the best gimmick power in a TV series.

The protagonist is cornered by the villain's minions. All hope seems lost. But just as the villain goes to pull the trigger, our hero sees a toaster on a kitchen shelf...

He's a character from Mosul (2019), which is based on the activities of one of the real Iraqi units fighting ISIL two years previously, so I guess that makes sense

I really liked his character, and also just the fact that a movie like that was made in the first place

I try to turn to page 72 and it just says "sorry, you failed your athleticism check. Please proceed to page 66"

In this case I used a fictional character who reminds me of a real person I know to get around the doxxing thing lol

I attempt to draw my service weapon to defend myself from the chemical assault. My holster requires two simultaneous button presses to release the weapon, preventing me from drawing it. I manage to pull the trigger and fire a round into my leg.

"Shots fired!" I yell into my dashboard-mounted GPS.

I'm ICE. After drinking three shots of tequila and two of mouth wash, I wrap my cruiser around a telephone pole. My training immediately kicks in, and I teargas myself.

If you see this, qt with your model of positive masculinity

Also, the Reichswehr had nothing to do but research and doctrinal development for the entirety of the 1920s, and Germany was the only country with access to lots of records from both the eastern and western fronts of WWI.

If there even was any cocaine (unlikely), were two shipwrecked sailors reenacting James Cameron's Titanic going to outrun a helicopter? Like, why didn't they just arrest them?

(Pretending for a second that we don't all know the goal was to kill people)

YouTube video by Forgotten Weapons 6.5x25mm CBJ: Shooting Through an APC with a Glock?

This is an APDS round for a handgun that can penetrate the armour of light AFVS
youtu.be/90ECrL_4GPc?...

The US military seems to have a set of brain worms that occasionally convince them that the average soldier needs to be a frontier marksman or something, and that frontier marksmen needed to be able to hit a man-sized target a mile away rather than just, like, walk a little close.

Also not to be dismissed! Good soldiers *should* keep fighting until physically unable, but there are plenty of accounts of people who immediately dropped from shock after taking hits that *shouldn't* have been disabling

It might! I think at minimum, it's going to hit you like a punch and throw off your aim for a couple seconds.

So, if you shoot someone and hit the plate, you have probably bought yourself enough time for a couple follow-up shots

It's totally unrealistic, but more people should practice late-medieval armoured combat because trying to defeat an opponent armoured cap à pied in plate armor when you only have muscle-powered weapons really clarifies some stuff.

Another thing is that if you're shooting from a flanking position, which you should be if at all possible, you're going to bypass the armour completely.

And if you're shooting from the front and the enemy is trying to shoot back, their (very shootable) arms are going to partly cover the red bits.

If you aim near the top of the red part, I think your odds are still pretty good

Yeah, modern body armour is really good at preventing injuries that will kill you really quickly, but not so good at preventing hits that are probably survivable but will put you out of action for a while.

The plates are just too bulky for that kind of coverage.

As a partial counterpoint - if you can't shoot someone in the red area, you can always still shoot them in the green area and they're still going to have a really bad time.

Sensing victory was nearing
Feeling fortune must have smiled
All the people started cheering
"Come on, Thunder Child!"

The Jeff Wayne musical version from 1978 goes extremely hard, however. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RRe...

Eden: I never thought I'd be fighting side by side with a bunch of k***s

Ben-Gurion: How about side by side with an expansionist imperial power?

Eden: I could do that

2 panel comic Panel 1: Massively aggressive cop fly kicks a door down while screaming “Bluesky PD” Panel 2: Cop then points gun directly at the reader and hisses “We received reports you were having fun for a second”

POV: u posted a little joke on blue sky. com

When the Americans and the Soviets both agree that you need to stop...

"Stay vigilant, patriots! The Deep State is going behind Trump's back and using immigration raids as cover to take your guns."