• Deceptichum
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    6 months ago

    Extra panel: Americans with all their guns not using them, yet acting as if shits serious.

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      6 months ago

      Americans own guns because of a mixture of toxic masculinity and a former ‘frontier’ culture that was reliant on (and permissive of) hunting.

      The idea that private gun ownership is going to overthrow an otherwise-functioning government is a delusion peddled by the gun industry.

      If things come down to it, it’s not going to be whether or not Billy Bob and his friends have an AR-15 in their closets that’s going to decide how things go.

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        6 months ago

        The idea isn’t to overthrow a government, although that would be nice.

        If one man losing an election can protect so many, surely a more proactive approach would be the best move?

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          If one man losing an election can protect so many, surely a more proactive approach would be the best move?

          Political violence rarely stabilizes anything, and dead politicians often become martyrs. If you’re advocating assassination, you might as well go the whole nine yards and advocate civil war because that’s where the dominos are gonna fall once political violence is normalized - or else fascism, if the public has no appetite for civil war.

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      Why don’t you come fix it for us?

      Oh, so you don’t want to get mowed down by tanks either? Why would you support genocide bro?!