A Sudanese militant from an unspecified faction attempts to "look cool" for social media by brandishing a .50 cal sniper rifle on his shoulder, but he only succeeds in demonstrating to the world what a level 60 IQ looks like in action, as his optic is clearly mounted backwards.

I have had multiple people ask why I'm not covering the conflict in Sudan, and while I did try to sniff out footage of the various embassy evacuations; what I mostly found was video of third-world potatoes ineffectively hip-firing and overhead blind-firing in random directions. Personally, I'm just not emotionally willing to deal with such unbridled stupidity at the moment. So let this clip be your survey sample of how the Sudanese conflict is going.

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Will Killmore is a US Army combat infantry veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He has deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 172nd Stryker Brigade and 173rd Airborne Brigade. Following his time in service, he successfully pursued a certificate of journalism and has been a blogger for Funker530 since 2014. Follow Will’s bad takes on Twitter