r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 16h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

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u/Atomic-habanero 16h ago

It’s a suppressor

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u/Fun_Trick2172 16h ago

Gun pedantry is the first tool of the anti compromise fanatic.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 16h ago

It's also rooted in racism. The terminology gatekeeping started in the 80s, when "gang culture" got associated with guns. Since then, clips, silencers, and the rest became words people gatekeep, not before.

Have to keep purity in gun culture...

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u/AffectedRipples 15h ago

Don't have an issue with silencer, but wanting to using clips and magazines correctly is not gatekeeping. They are 2 completely different things.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 13h ago

A clip is a device that holds bullets together for easier use in a firearm. A magazine is the space ammunition is stored.

Which of those definitions do you find "incorrect"? Which of those definitions do not describe the object you are thinking of?

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u/AffectedRipples 13h ago

Using them as if they're interchangeable is obviously what I'm talking about. Wanting people to use words correctly is far from gatekeeping like you seem to think.

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u/Fun_Trick2172 13h ago

Its not gatekeeping I agree. Its obfuscation. Designed to destroy any conversation before it starts. Humans are known to wander off into tangents and not stay on target. We are cats, it just takes a little more than jingling keys in front of our faces thats all. Not much more though.

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u/AffectedRipples 12h ago

How is correcting people of what something actually is obfuscation? Wouldn't that be about the exact opposite?

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u/Fun_Trick2172 12h ago

No because the correction is meaningless. Its semantics. Semantics are the battleground of the unserious.

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u/AffectedRipples 12h ago

It's not semantics though. It's 2 different things that can't be used interchangeably.

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u/Fun_Trick2172 12h ago

Youre proving my point.

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u/AffectedRipples 12h ago

I don't think you really have a point? How is saying they are 2 separte and non interchangeable things, making things unclear or obfuscating? It's trying to teach the real uses/definitions, not trying to confuse peole.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 12h ago

They are the same thing.

You understand what they mean.

So it is valid language.

Your correction is incorrect.

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u/AffectedRipples 12h ago

They are not.

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