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Why is that guy breaking trigger discipline on a propaganda poster?

by PoignardAzur 2y ago

nradov 2y ago
Trigger discipline is a decadent Western concept.
- rjsw 2y ago
  All the pictures of Taliban fighters that I saw after they took over in Afghanistan have good trigger discipline.
  - c22 2y ago
    Because they're trained by CIA.
sandworm101 2y ago
He isnt posing for a poster. That image appears cut from something else.
- trhway 2y ago
  It doesn't matter. That is for example painted poster https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voennyy-patrioticheskiy-nashe-delo-pravoe-pobeda-budet-za-nami-914221674/?__rr=1&abt_att=1&origin_referer=yandex.ru https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voenn... or another https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg (and if it reminds you something with 4-limbed symbol from 80+ years ago - it isn't an accident, it is the nature of the current regime in Russia) While it sounds like a pun, there is no "trigger discipline" in Russia (I myself an ROTC officer). In USSR/Russia the "never point your barrel at anybody or anything" discipline has been taught instead.
  - sandworm101 2y ago
    There is a little more to Russian rules. They don't allow carry with a round chambered. They find it very dangerous that so many american guns are carried at the ready. With no round chambered, the trigger is far less of a worry.
    - trhway 2y ago
      Absolutely. It is so fundamental, at the instinct level almost, that it didn't even came to my mind to mention it. Until absolutely necessary, you never chamber your weapon - "what if the trigger gets accidentally pulled!" :) Even military guards on duty are by the military regulations explicitly prohibited from chambering their weapon until necessary: 209. Часовому запрещается: ..., досылать без необходимости патрон в патронник, ... and only when the guarded security perimeter is about to be breached and the guard has already issued 2 verbal warnings, only then the guard chambers the round and makes the first warning shot toward the sky: 211. ... Если нарушитель после предупреждения "Стой, стрелять буду" продолжает движение, часовой досылает патрон в патронник и производит предупредительный выстрел вверх.
- yencabulator 2y ago
  Yet the question remains. Surely he is not aiming at a target, preparing to shoot.
  - sandworm101 2y ago
    Unless the goal is to make him appear dangerously aggressive. Intimidation and fear are bread and butter propaganda tools.
dmoy 2y ago
There was a (not really propaganda) photo op shot of a US naval captain of a big ass ship shooting a rifle with a backwards scope earlier this year. I think the reason tends to be that the people involved in prop and photo ops actually have no clue about the particulars and just want it to look cool. It's equivalent to "why is X in movies always so unrealistic?" for various values of X (e.g. hacking, law & courts, guns, etc) (By people involved I mean the people taking the pictures, editing, publishing, etc. Though in the US captain one, I guess also the guy in the picture too)
- itishappy 2y ago
  Guy lost his job. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100305/navy-commander-photo-rifle-scope-mounted-backward https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100305/navy-commander-...
  - dmoy 2y ago
    Oh ok that's funny, I hadn't heard about that Hmm not enough details to say whether it was due to the incident or something else. I will choose to believe it was because of the backwards rifle thing though because that's hilarious
xormapmap 2y ago
He isn't? The patch of green on the finger is his middle knuckle. His finger is well outside the trigger guard.

Why is that guy breaking trigger discipline on a propaganda poster?

nradov 2y ago

Trigger discipline is a decadent Western concept.

rjsw 2y ago
All the pictures of Taliban fighters that I saw after they took over in Afghanistan have good trigger discipline.
- c22 2y ago
  Because they're trained by CIA.

sandworm101 2y ago

He isnt posing for a poster. That image appears cut from something else.

trhway 2y ago
It doesn't matter. That is for example painted poster https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voennyy-patrioticheskiy-nashe-delo-pravoe-pobeda-budet-za-nami-914221674/?__rr=1&abt_att=1&origin_referer=yandex.ru https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voenn... or another https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg (and if it reminds you something with 4-limbed symbol from 80+ years ago - it isn't an accident, it is the nature of the current regime in Russia) While it sounds like a pun, there is no "trigger discipline" in Russia (I myself an ROTC officer). In USSR/Russia the "never point your barrel at anybody or anything" discipline has been taught instead.
- sandworm101 2y ago
  There is a little more to Russian rules. They don't allow carry with a round chambered. They find it very dangerous that so many american guns are carried at the ready. With no round chambered, the trigger is far less of a worry.
  - trhway 2y ago
    Absolutely. It is so fundamental, at the instinct level almost, that it didn't even came to my mind to mention it. Until absolutely necessary, you never chamber your weapon - "what if the trigger gets accidentally pulled!" :) Even military guards on duty are by the military regulations explicitly prohibited from chambering their weapon until necessary: 209. Часовому запрещается: ..., досылать без необходимости патрон в патронник, ... and only when the guarded security perimeter is about to be breached and the guard has already issued 2 verbal warnings, only then the guard chambers the round and makes the first warning shot toward the sky: 211. ... Если нарушитель после предупреждения "Стой, стрелять буду" продолжает движение, часовой досылает патрон в патронник и производит предупредительный выстрел вверх.
yencabulator 2y ago
Yet the question remains. Surely he is not aiming at a target, preparing to shoot.
- sandworm101 2y ago
  Unless the goal is to make him appear dangerously aggressive. Intimidation and fear are bread and butter propaganda tools.

dmoy 2y ago

There was a (not really propaganda) photo op shot of a US naval captain of a big ass ship shooting a rifle with a backwards scope earlier this year. I think the reason tends to be that the people involved in prop and photo ops actually have no clue about the particulars and just want it to look cool. It's equivalent to "why is X in movies always so unrealistic?" for various values of X (e.g. hacking, law & courts, guns, etc) (By people involved I mean the people taking the pictures, editing, publishing, etc. Though in the US captain one, I guess also the guy in the picture too)

itishappy 2y ago
Guy lost his job. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100305/navy-commander-photo-rifle-scope-mounted-backward https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100305/navy-commander-...
- dmoy 2y ago
  Oh ok that's funny, I hadn't heard about that Hmm not enough details to say whether it was due to the incident or something else. I will choose to believe it was because of the backwards rifle thing though because that's hilarious

xormapmap 2y ago

He isn't? The patch of green on the finger is his middle knuckle. His finger is well outside the trigger guard.