Think Squid Game.

All good, I get it now!

I am not arguing in any way for disarmament. But the fact that’s all anyone seems to think I’m saying is kind of proving my point.

Nobody defended the Republicans,

I didn’t suggest they did.

How do you plan on resisting once you’ve been disarmed? Just vote out fascism? …Yeah that’s always worked.

You seem to be arguing against a point I haven’t made.

The only reason you would want to be disarmed, is so that you have an excuse for your passivity.

You seem to be arguing against a point I haven’t made.

But you are really committed to fearing that decades old bogeyman more than the wolf at your door it seems.

That doesn’t change my point whatsoever, even if I agreed with your characterization of the parties, which I do not.

I don’t feel it’s substantially changed, you’ve just added more detail. You don’t need to care about my opinion though, and I’m not suggesting you should; I’m just sharing how I see it.

I just think it doesn’t matter. We live in an economy designed to suck every possible penny from every person and pay them the least amount it possibly can, to ensure the enrichment of the 1%

Someone wants to keep a few more bucks in their pocket rather than spend more in some principled stance that will change absolutely nothing anyhow, I’m not going to judge them for it. Life fucking sucks for just about everyone in the US right now, to varying degrees. On the list of things I might judge my fellow man for, that seems ludicrously privileged and self centered.

You don’t get to decide who is poor enough for it to be “OK” for them to buy the cheap tier. I mean, sure, you do get to have that opinion of course, but man I’m sorry I think you are really kind of a jerk to have this attitude.

Democrats will happily disarm everyone and hand the keys to the nation to the Republicans.

Even today when the Republicans are years-deep into proving that all the worst things we’ve ever suspected about them and their motives are true (and more) folks are still more worried D wants to come take their guns away.

R is literally dismantling our government and trampling the rights of an ever-growing segment of our population, on a speed run to authoritarianism, but folks are still yelling about that tired bogeyman instead of using the 2A as they have always claimed they can’t wait to do. (Edited to add: And I’m not even suggesting anything super dramatic. A few folks open carrying would probably be enough. You know, like all the magas that camped outside of polling places with their AR for purposes that were 100% not voter intimidation.)

You will scream about how Dems want your guns all the way up until the brownshirts show up to take them. The fuck is wrong with some of you?

I think it represents a timely reminder that we now know those who scream the loudest about the 2A, and how we can’t do a damn thing about gun violence because it would erode their freedoms, have no interest in using it the way they’ve always proclaimed they must, as long as the right people are being hurt.

And I’m not actually anti-2A so much as I am anti-a-particular-sort-of-gun-enthusiast.

It’s literally the reason the cover art exists. To entice you to judge it positively and pick up the book for a closer look.

Whenever I hear anyone say that, I conclude it’s one of those things that somehow meant something slightly different when the phrase was coined. Either that or we’re all just a bunch of goobers.

So you’re angry that the poor are choosing the cheap option (🤔) because it helps the wealthy win? You’re righteously indignant because they ignored that “Doing without is an option” and decided to spend some entertainment dollars in a way of their own choosing?

Ok, but I don’t really find that very convincing.

This is straight up victim blaming.

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100% I got it! 🙂 I just feel the need to correct that whenever I see it because from time to time you see a maga who knows what nazi stands for, and likes to “remind” everyone that the nazis were “socialists”, but they usually don’t know or don’t admit the rest.

(not that I thought you were doing so at all!)

Edit: LOL I actually didn’t get it when I typed that, but I really do now, sorry for my comprehension issues!

With the exception of extremes like nazism, a leftist government would allow

With no disagreement intended to your overall points, I feel compelled to mention that Nazis were not/are not leftists by any means, and that although the word “Socialist” is right in there, this was because Hitler co-opted the name.

I’m sure there are better articles than this one, but it was the one I could find the quickest: https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/

Good point that makes sense!

Sure, but if fetuses are people, you should be able to take out a policy at about 6 weeks.

Perhaps I’ll retire there as a dental floss tycoon. Sounds like a good place.