New Upper Receiver on the Way

I think I’ll continue swimming against the current. It’s a beautiful day, and I feel great. The reality you live in depends on your relationship with God, not your lockdowns, creepy vaccines, or ridiculous, ineffective masks.

Last night I did something I had been trying to talk myself out of. I bought an AR-15 upper in .204 Ruger. It has an M-Lok handguard and a 1:10 twist, which is somewhat faster than the much-criticized industry standard of 1:12. It has a fluted varmint barrel 22″ long. People say you need about 21″ to make the .204 Ruger achieve top speed, and without top speed, .204 Ruger is somewhat pointless. It’s all about speed.

I use the present tense, saying “has,” as though the upper already existed. The company that makes it says it’s shipping uppers 1-4 weeks after they’re ordered. I’m hoping I’ll be more toward the one than the 4, because .204 Ruger is unpopular. Demand should be low.

For all the blue-state whiners who may come to check my blog, take heart. The .204 Ruger cartridge is not very useful for killing human beings.

I have never been a big fan of the AR-15, but my feelings keep evolving as I learn. I still think it’s a bad choice for self-defense because of the reliability issues. But it’s turning out to be a great choice for nearly everything else.

I thought the AR-15 platform was inherently inaccurate, because everyone said so. They said they got poor results with it. Of course, most people couldn’t hit their own rear ends with a pistol. Probably less that 1% of the shooting population is worth listening to when it comes to accuracy. I have learned that the platform is actually very accurate, so that concern is gone. Gas guns like the AR-15 are harder to shoot well than bolt guns, and very few people know how to shoot them, because they don’t get training. You have to be a better shot to run an AR-15. You have to know more. Once you do, you have a semiautomatic platform that holds 30 rounds and may shoot into under 0.5 MOA, depending on your ammo and the quality of your gun.

Not only will an AR-15 shoot well; learning to make it shoot will make you a better shot, all-around. The things you do to make an AR shoot well should also be done when shooting other types of guns. This makes the AR a better choice for beginners than a bolt gun, because it teaches you more. A bolt gun is like MIG, and an AR-15 is like TIG.

There go my accuracy concerns.

What about other advantages? Here’s a big one. The AR-15 is made to hold lots of stuff. If you hunt, there is no telling what you may want to put on your gun. A light. A bulky night vision scope and illuminator. A heavy thermal scope. The stocks bolt-action rifles come with are not made for all that junk, but AR-15 furniture is.

The additional firepower is clearly a plus. Some states limit magazine capacity for certain applications, but sometimes you can have all you want. I have a Thompson Center rifle which is limited to three rounds in the box. Three! They refuse to make bigger magazines, and no other company makes them. What if I shoot a pig and wound it, and I need to finish it off? If you screw up badly enough, you could need up to 10 rounds to do the humane thing. That’s not going to happen if I’m operating a bolt and changing magazines. Another thought: some animals charge hunters. You can see hogs do it in videos. Do I really want to face an angry pig with one round gone and three remaining?

It seems to me that an AR-15 or AR-10 is a great choice for someone like me. I’m not doing benchrest shooting, so I don’t need a super expensive target rifle. I need something practical and accurate for hunting and for the type of target shooting I do. I need the option of bigger magazines. I don’t need a perfect curly maple stock. I need something that works. It all adds up to AR-15.

For self-defense, I still say it’s Eastern bloc all the way. The odds that an AR-15 will stop up when I need it are slim, but the odds that a Vz-58 or AK-47 will stop up are vanishingly small. And 7.62x39mm is just plain better for self-defense.

This is how things look to me right now. Maybe the picture will continue to change.

I was resisting getting a new upper, but I am getting old, and what good will an expensive coffin do me? BLM and Antifa nuts will just dig me up and steal the brass handles and sell them to buy crack.

On the political and religious front, there is momentous news. Parler is dead. Who didn’t see this coming? When did I start telling people conservatives and Christians would be thrown off the Internet? Maybe 2009? It has been obvious for a long, long time.

People who have no idea how things work have been high-fiving and chest-puffing about Parler and Gab, saying they’re where real conservatives will go to be safe from censorship. Well, one down and one to go.

The amazing thing is that Parler set up its tent in Jeff Bezos’ front yard and expected to thrive! They depended on Amazon Web Services for hosting! “Hello, Mr. Hitler? Is it okay if we build a synagogue on top of the Führerbunker?”

Gab is still online, and in true self-serving conservative bigwig fashion, Gab’s CEO is taking advantage of Parler’s demise by poaching members. Come on over! You’re welcome! Of COURSE you’re welcome. What business doesn’t want another business’s customers?

It reminds me of Pajamas Media. Fight the exclusionary leftist Internet cabal! Join our exclusionary right-wing Internet cabal!

That went really well, didn’t it?

I may actually join, just to watch things unfold. It can’t make things any worse for me. Sodomy is an abomination! If you reject Jesus Christ, you go hell! Caitlyn Jenner is a man! I’ve said more than enough to get me on the persecution list.

Parler may get new hosting. Doesn’t matter. It has been shaken once, and to intelligent people, that shows it can be shaken again, with permanent results. Gab may be doing better right now, but the Internet is still part of the grid. It’s enemy territory, and it will be taken away one way or the other.

Conservative-friendly platforms will only be permitted to exist if they become so full of carnal people they advance Satan’s causes.

The left is violent and stupid, so we should be violent and stupid! The left relies on social media, so we should rely on social media! It won’t work. Statists are insiders, and we’re outsiders. The rules are different for us.

It’s wonderful, how Satan uses carnal conservatives and Christians to justify tyranny. A few benighted people executed a fleeting, minor riot in DC. A few true imbeciles put up Nazi and white supremacist content on Parler and Gab. Now we are all tarred as terrorists. It’s like gun control. A schizophrenic idiot who plays first-person-shooter games 14 hours a day shoots up a school, and the statists say it proves your pastor shouldn’t have an AR-15 to protect his 14 adopted Somali kids.

When did we decide unpleasant views justified depriving people of their platforms? That’s new.

Remember the Skokie case? A bunch of American Nazis decided to march in Skokie, Illinois, a neighborhood full of Jews. They complied with the law, just like other parade organizers. When the authorities tried to stop them, the courts stepped in. It’s legal for Nazis to parade in Jewish neighborhoods unless they break the law. In the United States, it’s legal to be a Nazi, a Communist, a jihadist, a Satanist, or a Klan member. It’s legal to write books and publish newspapers promoting your craziness. It’s legal to have TV shows and radio shows. Why, then, is it illegal for a Nazi to have a Facebook account?

Answer: because Satan needs a way to silence Christians. Holy-Spirit-led Christians are overwhelmingly conservative. Nazis and white supremacists also tend to be hold some conservative views, although Nazis are statists and closely aligned with the left in many ways. If Internet bigwigs can find enough Nazis and racists on conservative social media, and if they can mainstream censorship (which our government is not allowed to do), then they can silence lots of Christians. This will make the world seem more statist than it is, and people are unthinking herd animals. If they think everyone else is a statist, they will become statists, too.

Nazis and other nuts should be allowed on social media, and the correct response is to counteract their propaganda with truth. As people with common sense have always said, banning speech you don’t like leads to the banning of important, beneficial expression. The people who do the banning will always be corrupt, and they will always be unfair. It’s better to let people rant. Jesus was unpopular. The prophets were unpopular. If they were on social media today, they would be banned.

They’re already banned in many stores. Try getting a store clerk to say, “Merry Christmas.”

Some people say the winners write history. That’s not really true. Leftists write history, even when they lose. It’s how they shape the future.

You’re going to be censored online. Get used to the idea. No one is going to put up alternative services which will last and keep us in touch with each other. You need to hear from the Holy Spirit. He is our Internet.

Armed uprisings and new social media sites are carnal solutions, and you can’t win a supernatural war with carnality.

We’re going to lose. God is going to remove us from the world. You need to separate yourself from the provocation, which is just Satan, trying to get you to step out from under God’s protection. To sort of paraphrase the message of the old movie War Games, the only way to lose the war Satan is trying to start is not to play.

The Bible says we are supposed to be the head and not the tail. Here’s something God told me: wherever the head goes, the tail goes. Tails follow heads. That’s how animals are built. When Satan was cast out of heaven, he swept a third of the angels down with him with his tail. That means they followed him. Jesus was supposed to be their head, but they didn’t listen.

If you let Satan’s effort to tempt you to get carnal with the statists, you will be chasing his tail, and you risk ending up where he’s going. He’s a loser. Let him lose without the pleasure of your company.

Statists will torment us as much as our supernatural situations permit. Big deal. Once your body is gone, you will never see these people again. Remember what Moses said about Egypt’s army? “You will see them again no more forever.” Won’t that be nice? The statist terrorists can’t go where we’re going. They won’t be able to have parades in heaven. No more rainbow banners, naked men in body paint, or giant pavement propaganda graffitti.

It’s terrible that people will be destroyed, but it’s not as bad as going with them and continuing to be subjected to their presence.

They’ll get rid of me sooner or later, even though I pay my own hosting fees. Get ready for it. I don’t care. Not a big deal. I may as well thank everyone who has read this blog over the years, although don’t get too full of yourselves, because it’s not like you gave me a kidney. Maybe I have a year left. Maybe a few months. I can’t tell, so I thank you now.