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We can become lost in tribal arguments or we can look at the Minnesota ICE shooting to better understand asymmetrical warfare. In this episode we introduce a thought experiment where the line between combatant and non-combatant gets blurred.
A common tactic of asymmetrical warfare is to leverage public opinion through potentially deceptive media to garner animosity against the opposing force. Through this tactic, a militarily inferior force may cripple a superior army by inspiring domestic opposition to military action, turning the local or resident populace against the actions of the dominant force. The objective of asymmetrical warfare isn't to win a decisive victory on the battlefield, but through inspiring revolutionary action in the resident populace, legitimate or otherwise.
Victim Narratives plague our generation. Yet history tells a longer story. Black Lives Matter, Antisemitism, and White Men now have their own victim narratives. We are aware of the presence of victim narratives, but do we understand how they hijack our desire for justice in order to justify atrocities?
This weekend, a so-called Peacekeeper opened fire, shooting and killing a bystander at a No Kings protest this weekend. The presence of these armed individuals at left-wing protests has increased since the summer of love in 2020. Generally identifiable by loose, barely used gear, they present a specific type of danger to themselves and those present, similar to conscripted soldiers.
In this episode we cover how to identify low-skill, low-intelligence threats in both a military and non-military setting, some of the history of these self-proclaimed peacekeepers, and the moral behind training that has caught the ire of tyrants.
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When it comes to conversation on 5th Generational Warfare, we often get bogged down in the discussion on defining the terms, so much so that we are exhausted before getting to the application. James Lindsay joins the REDACTED Culture Cast as a guest to discuss not simply the description of how "woke" is used in a war-like fashion, but how to address it and what the rules of engagement may be.
We discuss the differences between tactics, strategy, and theology, and how they interact with one another. How do you identify a dishonest interlocutor? What is the proper response to entryism?
Look at the literature of Christian writers on Masculinity, and you'll see a long lineage of writers putting black ink to white paper on the war waged on masculinity. Does it disregard the conflicts they face? No. But does the imagery and metaphor of warfare do itself justice?
Is there a war on masculinity? Is it true, or, is Christian Masculinity being persecuted? What is the difference?
Just because Academia suffers from internal decay and the death of its legitimacy, doesn't mean we ought abandon the tenants of it's development. C.B. Robertson returns as a guest to present an argument regarding the use of language and how it applies to reality. Accurately conveying ideas from one person to another must pass through the lens of individual subjectivity and it has consequences about what we know about reality.
So we engage in the subject of subjectivity without the pretense of supremacy without the clause.
Some arguments are like communism: you cannot completely stamp them out, and every once in a while and old dispute must rise to the surface only for us all to realize that it's something stupid we are debating.
The comparison of competition shooting to tactical shooting is one of those subjects, full of passionate attempts at equivocating the two things and then claiming one to be the superior form of training. but this leads to a deeper, more impactful topic regarding Gun Culture. Perhaps we're not so demoralized because we're materialistic, but that we've been reduced to buying pouches as the only form of progress.
What does Gun Control and Christian Nationalism have in common? Particularly, the rhetoric against them. While bad arguments of a similar fashion do not make a justification for either, they do help illustrate the way rhetoric functions.
If not already, Christians should be prepared to face the horns of this dilemma: either chose to be condemned as a Christian Nationalist, or be gouged on the horn of an inevitably failed proposal, and be labeled as a hypocrite.
We are called to be in the world, but not of it.
In the same way, the right to self defense is not dependent on choosing the lesser of two evils.
There's plenty of buzz on the topics of such as AI and transhumanism when it comes to individual agency, questions about what it means to be human. However, such topics inevitably lead to ethical questions beyond if we can stretching deeper into whether we should. J Drago joins the show to talk about these subjects and more.
At the heart of the Identity Crisis in the West wrestles a contradiction where we are pressured to identify with great moral maxims and rules to live by, while simultaneously treat them as trivial. Our morals are both the center of our identity and mere aesthetics depending on the situation. Flippant, and Faithful, as if those two were not in contrast.
There is a strain that runs through current political ideology that divides mankind into two parts. Some call them oppressors and oppressed, others see it as fascists and anti-fascists, but at the core it is the dividing of the population into two different categories: those who will inevitably do evil by their nature, and those who are justified in using violence so long as it is used to prevent the other from doing evil.
Technique, Skill, Tactic, Strategy, followed by Theology or Philosophy serves as a model for a progressive of abstraction from the individual to the objective when it comes to layers of choice.
In a recent clip, a speaker on MSNBC described Christian Nationalism as believing that Rights exclusively come from God, or at least, they are not granted by the State. Historically, the prevalence of this belief led to the persecution and even killing of Christians.
When a State sees itself as the granter or generator of Rights, it cannot abide by citizens appealing to a higher power.
The idea of combat being some rite of proving is neither new, nor something to be trivialized. Dreams of glory, the horrors of war, cynicism towards honor, and a demystification as pseudo-enlightenment all appear in both literature and the stories we tell ourselves and each other. In this conversation with Nic Magjack3r, he tells the story of his first gunfight, beginning long before with the years of training, some institutionally provided, and much done of his own volition, as well as the "fallout" after surviving a shootout.
In the conversation, we consider how he was perceived both before and after shots were fired at him, and how different professions and personalities reacted to that event.
If we are going to talk about ideological and information warfare, we would be foolish to ignore the intellectual or ideological injuries that a person may receive. On this this show we have talked about moral injuries where a person experiences a situation where they take part in, or are unable to stop an event which directly contradicts their moral system or values.
In a similar fashion someone becomes an intellectual casualty when their ability to evaluate information has been additionally damaged beyond what they would otherwise be capable. More specifically, when it is that one is deceived by false information, but that their ability to evaluate information and make judgements accordingly is directly injured.
These take multiple forms, often in the form of slurs and gaslighting, but in this case, if we are going to take it seriously that we are engaging in a conflict that spans from the spiritual, to the ideological, and intellectual, through propaganda, and manipulation, we would want to see the people who are injured, in this sense, healed.
In short, if we are going to use words with meaning, we better mean what we say.
Adventure, what a marketing term. We grew up on Lord of the Rings and watched as beloved characters embarked on a great journey. Ivan Loomis of Kit Badger joins the show to talk about spending a whole year shooting left handed, and balancing risk in thrill seeking. Join us in this episode as we talk about discerning good training, challenging the status quo on advanced skill, and turning to the mountains for a sense of adventure.
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Audio Warning: This was our first attempt at a recording with this many people. It's not the best sound but the conversation is worth the wait.
In this grand episode of the REDACTED Culture Cast, we are joined by New and Returning faces appear to discuss industry innovation, who we'd like to see come to SHOT SHOW, and center on Culture, Community, and Calling. A trade show first, and community gathering second, the biggest firearms industry event of the year draws more than just attention.
Watches, Cultural Commentary, and where we are going as a society all appear in this conversation.
Two recent events (depending on how you interpret the news cycle) help point out the relevance of Culture as a potential attack vector. In the interview by Tucker Carlson, Putin accused Ukraine of breaching the separation of church and state by banning the practice of orthodox Christianity. To us in the west, the nuance of this decision can easily be lost, considering that we are close to what we call Protestantism and Catholicism, by proximity, but not Orthodoxy. At the same time there is a group who claim to be the Church of Satan in America.
If we condemn the acceptance of the Church of Satan, then may we also accept the Ukrainian Government's condemnation of Russian Orthodoxy? If we accept that people have a Right to practice religion including the so called Church of Satan, are we required, then to condemn the Ukrainian Government?
This is how we start to understand Culture as an Attack Vector for war making between governments.
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they responded to the mere existence of Tucker Carlson's interview of Vladimir Putin. Cries of outrage, traitor, and denouncements, as loud as they were, quickly faded, and so should our intellectual respect for the minds attached to the mouths and keyboards making such claims. But all is not so simple, nor so clear, in the international world of intrigue.
This Episode was released in light of the immense processing time required to make the latest SHOT SHOW episode come to life.
While medication has focused on treating the physical injuries that can contribute to PTSD, it remains ill equipped to address moral injuries one may encounter in war. Beyond the stigma placed on military veterans, and a cruel incentive program directed at their mental health, the idea of PTSD, when reduced to merely physiological responses to trauma, only looks at half the problem.
A moral injury is defined as "When one feels they have violated their conscience or moral compass when they take part in or fail to prevent an act that disobeys their own moral values or personal principles," by the DAV (Disabled American Vets) or as "When someone does something that goes against their beliefs this is often referred to as an act of commission and when they fail to do something in line with their beliefs that is often referred to as an act of omission. Individuals may also experience betrayal from leadership, others in positions of power or peers that can result in adverse outcomes (2). Moral injury is the distressing psychological, behavioral, social, and sometimes spiritual aftermath of exposure to such events (3). A moral injury can occur in response to acting or witnessing behaviors that go against an individual's values and moral beliefs." according to Sonya Norman and Shinra Maguen for the VA.
The effects of moral injuries can be mitigated by individuals with a strong understanding of their moral foundation, and a dedication to it that surpasses their circumstances.
It is possible to look at a situation that takes place within our culture, acknowledge that happened was wrong, even to offer aid, without trying to turn it into a movement. In an time where a public display of implied suffering can be a financially lucrative grift, we are all in danger of become jaded and cold hearted towards our own people.
One form of entryism uses the (often legitimate) suffering and grievances of people in order to integrate a set of rules that ultimately overturn or undo a binding community. The French Revolution might have started with a legitimate grievance, but ended in Napoleon who immediately followed the Reign of Terror.
A side note, for those who read these: SHOTSHOW has a strange effect on the industry, where for those who attend, it seems quite easy to get in, and for those who do not, it appears exclusive, and sometimes with dramatic consequences. If it comes across as elitist and exclusionary, please forgive me. For many, SHOTSHOW is the one time a year where all our industry friends come together at one place, and we often get to reconnect with people we haven't seen for years, all in the neon light of that exhausting city.
This year had marked differences than years past, all on the level of the culture. If it feels like all is quiet on the industry side, the culture bustles with fear and loathing and anticipation for what comes next. And it often does that every year until something does happen and we call it a pandemic.
2023 was a painful year, and the sentiment is that it's only beginning.
The question remains, what is the IT that is only beginning? What is the cause or explanation of the upheaval? Books have been written on the subject, and they pile up on bookshelves and in influencer's reading lists, but do they end up helping or perpetuating the problem.
In this episode, I put forward the theory that we are experiencing the end of an age, the Secular Age as Charles Taylor puts it. In order to explain what that means we go into three different definitions for the word "secular" and what their end might mean.
The landscape of discussion on masculinity hosts many tribes. Some demand specialization, others, annihilation. All of which appear unhappy about the state of masculinity in the West.
Questions about masculinity are ultimately inquiries about not only his identity, but about society, government, and how we should live. Kenneth W. Royce, Author of over 15 books, provides the Modules for Manhood, three books that cover a great breadth of topics, giving the reader an introduction into the many things he believes a man should be good at, or in pursuit of.
Topics include Money, Power, Liberty, Guns, Family, Food, Farming, Training, Religion, Relationships, Work, Character, and more.
One line in the books even played a major role in sending me to school for Philosophy.
The Ends Justify The Means You have to break a few eggs to make an Omelette
And similar phrases are not only used to moraly justify atrocities, but are wielded rhetorically as a call to action instead of a moral argument.
Whether a case of desperation, or of utilitarian ends, we take a look a this form of moral argumentation and see if it holds water.
Three layers challenge the legitimacy of such sayings: 1. The Argument is Incomplete. 2. I struggles under any moral scrutiny 3. It only serves the short term.
The media will tell you that Soldiers are trained to dehumanize their enemy in order to become more efficient fighters. The propaganda sacrifices our own soldiers on the alter of efficiency, leaving them later to pay the price in the form of PTSD and trauma. And while we can be critical of the military, and of media, and of our politicians, none of this really matters if we don't take responsibility for our own thoughts and actions. Turns out, Dehumanization makes you Weak.
Or at least that's my thoughts on the matter. John Soden, a former Ranger, instructor for Method Endeavors, and student of Psychology joins the show to talk about the aftereffects of dehumanization. This episode addresses the multiple layers of responsibility that comes with war fighting, and how those who have the least skin in the game are most likely to dehumanize the enemy.
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The subject of Civil War is once again in the mainstream, this time brought forward by a trailer by the very namesake. Dark Humor gets many of us through our tough times, but if this means anything, it's that we're not there yet.
As a result, we are once again engaging with Just War Theory, having to do with some problems that the classic model struggles with, particularly when it comes to dealing with the morality of killing in War.
A time for honest intellectual engagement, we'll be sure to make some time for the levity soon to follow.
But along the way, we deal with an important lesson when it comes to what makes the greatest of contemporary warfighters so dangerous, how we can harness it, and what warnings it comes with: sanction.
By my estimation, since the Second World War, the West has taken for granted why men will voluntarily go off to war. It generally minimizes it into some semblance of the male fantasy or selfish ambition or patriotism. However, how we, ourselves make these decisions, or think about Just War Theory as individuals, has consequences for our lives that go well beyond internet clout. As it appears war is creeping into the lives of the individual, we must consider why it is we, ourselves, would consider going to war or engaging in violence at all.
The book mentioned early in this episode is "Killing in War" by Jeff McMahan.
If entrance into the military counts as initiation into Gun Culture (it doesn't, but work with me here), then I have spent 15 years in various parts of this community. What are the lessons to be learned from it? First, we all enter naive, whether into a job or a discipline or a skill tree. As we learn where we need to correct our way of thinking, we are faced with options for growth, or resentment.
Second, group constitution takes second place to group attitude when it comes to success. Think of it like skills being the foundation, but not the cause for a good community.
Finally, whether shooting competition, training tactically, or looking into new gear, we build this community that you're likely a part of, by spending time with one another.
We don't talk about gear too much on the REDACTED Culture Cast, but when we do, we do it with a flair of the unorthodox. Cody, the man behind Bargain Bin Tactician, tells his story of entering into Gun Culture, searching for community after moving, and how he has approached gear from the outside looking in.
The curse and cure of gun culture is how much it is centered around items. In a sense, what we spend our money on is the best reflection of what we consider valuable, even if what we say and what we buy doesn't match up. Bargain Bin Tactician has brought a level of media professionalism to his production without limiting his learning curve to dictate equipment first, uber alles.
May light hearted episode of the REDACTED Culture Cast remind you that though this community deals with serious topics, we are not slaved to a doom-and-gloom mindset.
If war is simply conflict between Governments or states, and the use of armies targets the politcal, which economic warfare attacks a people's market or access to resources, what would it look like for a hostile country to use culture as an attack vector in a warlike fashion? Define it too broadly and innocent people will suffer as they get swept up alongside insurgents, producing a breeding ground for more conflict. Define it too narrowly, however, and insurgencies will be left to roam free under the guise of humanitarian aid or religious organizations.
Much of American culture lives in contradiction. It wants it's government to stay out of their business, except when it comes to supporting it. It's okay with government meddling, so long as it's bothering someone else. And anarchy provides no alternative.
In this episode we revisit Politics, Economics, and Culture as three different attack vectors between peoples, and take a look at pitfalls to avoid when scrying culture as a potential attack vector.
Putting community building into practice, Brent built a community through volunteering his time and experience to put on events for those who wanted to attend. Instead the basic Pistol and Rifle classes, they went well beyond including shooting from and around vehicles, to a version of a foreign weapons day. An antidote to the pessimism that hangs over Gun Culture, this conversation demonstrates that not only can we visualize what we want to see, but put it to action.
AS two veterans, we address differences and similarities between out similar timeframe in the military. From TBI, to leading a platoon versus teaching in the civilian world. Until recently, Civilian training looked like leveled courses, but we're seeing that shift. Enjoy the Episode as we engage with both sides of Gun Culture, engage in the subject of training, and building a vision for the future.
Three methods of approach, three subject that produce the context for our lives. We take a look at three different subjects: Politics, Economics, and Culture to consider what we are working with when it comes to either side of the Is-Ought divide. Politics deals with governing systems, whereas economics deals with markets, but how to people formulate how these systems should function is a different question entirely.
Correction in the description: Hume's Fork refers to the difference between A-Priori and A-Posteori Information. More on that Later.
Closing Music: "Make It Right" by The Toxic Avenger
Now that the holidays have breached your calendar with a flash bang and a flame-thrower, we've got Paigeosity back on the show to talk about cultural momentum. Don't forget to steamroll your family members when it comes to Gun Culture while eating the meatbird.
For all the bluster Gun Culture blows about being elite, or an elitist, or an expert, it rarely takes the time to adequately consider what it is that makes someone truly an expert at something like CQB. The military is, contrary to their role in society, mostly concerned with looking good for a certain political class of officer. The Individual citizen, however, might bring a new wave of cultural momentum to the fight.
Those who encounter violence and war will be tempted to see themselves a combination of the light and the darkness in this world. Various forms of religious iconography, as well as cultural keystones mimic this concept as if a person can be servant to two masters, wrestling between them.
But the source of light has no equal. The concept of dichotomy as a form of identification becomes an idol, steeped deeply in one's worldview.
In the mind of Clausewitz wars had a beginning and and end, or at least they should. But when we look at the ways peoples have waged war against each other, the timelines more often reveal a long fringe on either end of the conflict. These blurry edges may manifest on a timeline, as well as in the use of irregulars to wage unlimited warfare.
In today's culture war, as it is described, the fighters are not only non-state actors, but informants, ideologues, and activists who utilize insurgent-like activity to sow disruption in a population. With the globalization of media and the internet, we in the west are starting to see this happen more and more. The question remains: what do we do about it?
Both Army Rangers and Special Forces call back to Robert Rogers in their lineage. Today, the missions of the Green Beret and the Tan Beret are vastly different, so who is right? Zach Masek joins the show again to go deep into the history of Robert Rogers starting with his rise to fame and his fall from grace.
If you ask the soldiers of fortune, you'll find out they don't really do it for the money. This common thread was reflected in the life and tragedy of Robert Rogers. The man who is credited as being the founder of modern special operations set the mold in more ways than one, whether in standardization, or the sad but common trajectory of the special operations veteran without a war to fight.
Follow Zach Masek on YouTube at the Dead Warrior Society.
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As the Levant once again gathers the attention of the world, we have an opportunity to learn about not only how wars are fought, but how those similarities are repeated the world over. Israel, being considered a nation-state, is expected to engage in regular warfare, against an opponent not held to the same standard in political discourse. The importance of this war remains immensely personal to some, but to all, it serves as a model by which to understand one form of asymmetrical warfare.
And when we look into the history of war, it's not as unusual as the media portrays. Whether we look at how Special Operations engage in war, or at the history of American warfare, we find similar examples of irregular warfare as a means to an end.
It can be quite funny to watch fools opine grandly about how they are, themselves, a free thinker, without a single consideration for what that means other than a cookie-cutter-counter-culture to the presumed status quo. The phrase has rotated through the decades, including free-thinker, critical thinker, independent thinker, or someone who thinks for themselves as an intellectual version of the virtue signal.
Let's take a look into what it means to honestly think for yourself.
Two guests join the show today, both with former appearances on the REDACTED Culture Cast, and both with a strong take on the grime and grit of both this culture and the industry. At the table, we have three voices: an Active Duty Soldier, a Veteran, and a Citizen.
And in good faith, we bring more than more complaints to your table.
- The difference between the Culture and the Industry. - What their differing goals are or should be. - Community Building, in a Tangible Environment. - Gun Culture Eat's it Own.
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The argument is made, time and time again, that if we could just get rid of religion, we would be able to end all wars. Yet that belief requires a willing ignorance to what religion is and how, at the core of each and every philosophy, is a fundamentally religious idea.
The idea that we could eliminate war from taking place wherever there are men reveals more about the person who believes it, than about the world as it is. Clausewitz described War as politics by another means, or at least poor translations of "On War" suggest that. Mao and Lenin viewed war as a part of Culture, or at least the way they waged their campaigns certainly implied so. And then there's the question of economics, that if we could solve the problem of scarcity in the world, we would end all reason for men to go to war with one another.
Each of these theories portrays different metaphysical ideas, different worldviews. And how we think of them in relation to war affects how we believe we ought fight one.
At the beating heart of this community and culture is the idea that all men are created equal. That there is no distinction between citizen and soldier when it comes to rights. That there is no difference between free man and party member when it comes to using logic and reason to regulate ourselves and our country.
Or at least that is the ideal. This scathing criticism of Gun Culture comes at the heels of yet another case where our enemies amass social and fiscal capital to be wielded in economic warfare against us, while we complain to our hearts malcontent in order to eek by another day and another year.
And that is the way we will move forward: step by bloody step. We will be discouraged, but we will not be defeated. We will be downtrodden but we will not be made to beg. We will be betrayed, but we will not give up hope that this culture and this community, and this moral philosophy which grounds our rights as free men will never be wiped from the face of the earth until every one of us is no longer here to carry it in our hearts.
By now, most of us are familiar with the trope of the hyper-alert, hyper-aware veteran who's level of situational awareness often looks like a display. In that grey space between the white picket fence and war on an industrial scale, this posture will not only make you a target, but one that is easy to predict.
You will often see people concerned with self defense identify their greatest threat to be the casual opportunist. Nothing like declaring your value with the lowest common denominator. However, an adversary with even the slightest modicum of self awareness will likely start gathering information on you, seeking to know your pattern of life in order to identify weaknesses.
This is where the hyper-alert self-defense guy comes into the picture. Not only is he aware of his surroundings, he's so aware that he has to tell everyone about it. He's so aware that he makes himself out to be a target.
In addition to that, most people who exhibit public displays of self awareness turn out to be compensating for a lack of achievement in their current or prior employment.
Much of how we describe ethics in war comes from a tradition that was born relatively recently in comparison to the history of warfare. In premodern times, before the renaissance or the enlightenment, the scale of warfare often extended well beyond the warfighter, even as different creeds and belief systems set limitations on the man wielding the sword.
During the enlightenment, as Europe inched closer to the idea of a balance of power, various nations, kingdoms, and warriors began to place limitations on the warfare they waged, at least until they reached a certain level of desperation.
In some ways, that tradition of limited warfare never really manifested, and in others, what was left very well died on the battlefields of World War 1.
Now, we are here in an age of decentralization, where not only nations go to war against each other in every way but the official way, and grey zone between combatant and non-combatant is the most lively battlefield at play.
So, in this episode we address how the idea of warfare has changed from age to age, and how it looks to be rhyming, if not returning to a pre-modern, but more genuine format, partially by breaking down the barrier between the professional warfighter, and the citizen capable for becoming a warrior.
Another Ranger joins the show, this time one with the capability to pass the high standards of the Ranger Regiment when it comes to functioning as a Medic. We discuss the credibility of recent terrorist threats, and go so far as to take a shot at the golden question: what is terrorism.
Tim Selbrede both stands out and fits into a cohort of men like him who have gone out into the world, experienced adventure, and lived to tell the tale, only to come home to a country that doesn't honor him for the achievements he finished in defense of the Nation.
Recently graduating DARC, the next feather in the cap means a question of what comes next and how we continue as a community in the coming months, years, and generations.
Later in the episode he shares some advice when it comes to re-evaluating your medical capabilities after they may have gathered some dust or your IFAK has gone to disarray.
And yes, this episode was published on the day when Luther nailed the 95 theses to the door of the church in honor of Tim being a Catholic.
How much of this community consists of freeloaders, riding on the coattails of those putting in the work? How many people in this community coast on the free subscriber level, but complain when they are not granted access to the small, tightly knit circles that make up the Gun Culture?
1. Freeloaders, and Mooches. No one likes a Sandbagger. 2. The trouble with sponsorship in this industry. 3. Hoarding information. 4. Lowering Standards are your fault. 5. Cult activity versus community building.
Are you tired of the Drama? Good, because you might be part of it.
Everywhere we look, it appears that the world is falling apart. The institutions have been corrupted, and not by crafty tyrants whose strength we could at least respect, but by petty despots, who used subversion and slimy tactics to undermine the very thing which upholds them. The great academies have been consumed by illiterates. Politicians beg and steal to enrich their own pockets.
There is nothing that Man can create that is permanent, and for this we are thankful. We don't even have sovereignty over life itself.
And be ready. The news cycle is about to begin, and it's going to be brutal.
The Flux Defense Raider has been on the scene for a few years now. This Flux Raider review is less about the Chassis alone, and more about how, with the right parts and a little bit of garage engineering, one can make the tool sing.
Is it worth the attention or is there more to it than meets the eye? The Flux Raider has garnered attention, and for good reason: it challenges the status quo. Still, one might need to make a few adjustments to hone the platform into what they need.
This build includes parts from SIG SAUER, Lead & Steel, Reptilia, Obsidian Arms, RovyVon, and More.
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Hailing from a family with an adventuresome past, Peter Ildefonse joins the show to argue that our Rights reside downhill from our responsibilities. When we talk about worldviews, he addresses a problem: while many of us take effort to define and understand our worldview. Yet he raises the question, how many of us see ourselves as the exception to the rule which governs everyone else?
This idea is only the beginning, and Peter shares lessons learned from family members who dramatically escaped and later, trained citizens in skills meant to resist his tyranny. We get into the myths behind the IYKYK, take a peek at gatekeeping, and a look at cultures which would die off without supermarket.
Peter argues that we have a responsibility to resist injustice, and from that responsibility, we understand our individual right to bear arms.
We're hearing politicians and pundits wax poetic about the threat of sleeper cell terrorists attacking America. All attention is then directed at the idea of an illegal alien entering the United States through a porous southern border, to then integrate into a community keeping nefarious plots and abilities under the floorboards until they receive a call from a foreign commander.
What's more close to home, is that the idea of what we call a sleeper cell already exists in America, only they're chanting Black Lives Matter and burning down a police precinct.
Further, Gun Culture has put a great interest in the idea of Recce or reconnaissance, and the interest is genuine, only the terms are a little off.
Books mentioned in this episode: "Why Young Men" by Jamil Jivani https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=redacted00-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=6d4868dc7e1a33a34ee0ef85b6c35173&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=why young men
"War of the Flea" by Robert Taber https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=redacted00-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=31c987b8d66d0e065c6b69fdd973391d&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=war of the flea
OPSEC, short for Operation Security is Military Jargon for keeping information vital to the security and success of an operation out out the hands of those who would use open source intelligence gathering tools to gain leverage against one's unit, people, or community. Maintaining a clear control of OPSEC is difficult to measure unless you are actively capable of discerning what an opposing force knows about you and your plans. Traditional and cultural references includes spy novels, thrillers, and a news broadcast that's a little to revealing about what is really going on behind the curtain.
A double edged sword for any society which claims to be free, OPSEC includes governments actively taking steps to compartmentalize information and restrict its spread across even its own population.
We start by comparing OPSEC to the board game STRATEGO, which helps build the concept. However, in our world where terms like "5th Generation Warfare" regularly appear in political discourse, the idea of Operation Security runs the risk of inciting paranoia.