• @[email protected]
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    4414 days ago

    My opinions about guns have changed over the years. I used to be of the opinion that nobody should have guns in this day and age, what’s the point aside from ego boosting and sport.

    Then a cheeto puff did a treason on jan6.

    I’ll give up my guns only after the fascists give up theirs. Non negotiable.

    You want to “prevent tragedies”? fund programs for welfare and healthcare. Tax the rich. Break up megacorps like google, albertsons, nestle. Enact and enforce employee protections. Raise the minimum wage. Ban airbnb and heavily tax empty residences. Universal basic income! Did I mention fixing the healthcare system? More that I’m forgetting to list.

    Miserable parents make miserable kids, and miserable kids lash out. For the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet, this shouldn’t be hard to figure out.

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      2514 days ago

      … Nestlé…

      But surely it’s proper for one company to control the entire food supply. I mean you wouldn’t want to be a communist and not let the free market do as it wishes

      /s in case the italics and words aren’t enough

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        1514 days ago

        i have on occasion been accused of being a communist. Usually when I point out that people deserve rights.

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      1314 days ago

      also fire every single cop in the country and replace them all with people who actually believe that they’re supposed to protect and serve.

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        The problem is that all of those ex-cops would still exist and still be American citizens. They’d 100% create a far right militia, at the very least. No doubt about it.

        Unless we shipped them off to Russia or something.

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      Yea, you could totally win a gun fight against the US military 🙄

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      -414 days ago

      That is such stupid logic. “Oh people want to violently overthrow the government? I want them to easily get guns” The fascists should be the exact reason you want to have strict gun control

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        1114 days ago

        It doesn’t work that way when they already all have guns. If you wanted to do it your way, you’d have needed to start on that gun control about 100 years ago.

        Because the cops are not going to take the fascists’ guns, even if they were outlawed. They are vastly outnumbered by armed citizens, and they are scared of them, and many of the cops are the same fascists too.