this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
1225 points (96.9% liked)

Microblog Memes

10376 readers
2474 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SirDerpy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No we ask how is he still alive. At that range if they meant to kill him he should be dead.

No. And, I'm disappointed so many blindly believed.

The initial information was 200-300 yards. A good shooter with range ammo (medium quality) and a decent rifle will shoot about 2 MOA or "minutes of angle" accuracy. A better shooter with better ammo and rifle will shoot about 1.5 MOA.

The math conveniently works out such that 1 MOA is 1 inch at 100 yards. At 1 MOA and 100 yards range, the distance from the furthest spaced rounds in a small number of rounds will be 1 inch.

At 300 yards 1.5 MOA is 4.5 inches. At 200 yards it's 3 inches. At 300 it'd take three shots to be sure. At 200 it's a likely one shot kill.

The news of 200-300 yards was intentional uncertainty. We sheep aren't to know the actual risk to Trump's life.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] klemptor@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A yard slightly less than a meter. So 500 yards is 457 meters.

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

it would've been so cool if they just set 1 meter to 1 yard

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

George Washington explains it here: https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk