• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Let me translate this:

    You (the Outgroup, meaning leftists) can’t have guns. If You (the Outgroup) does this, We (the ingroup, the right) will kill you. You have no rights, We have no restrictions.

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      7 days ago

      it looks like the start of a civil war. i hope it doesn’t come to that, but it really looks like that’s where it’s headed.

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        If we keep society together and martial law isn’t declared before midterms then we might be good. We might go to sweep them without a civil war. But should martial law be declared or we don’t get the midterms for whatever reason…

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          Then it’ll fracture along state lines, ie states that have the wherewithal to stand up against the feds. Which if they don’t organize among themselves will be … California. Maybe New York. And the little ones will be steamrolled. Although I’d guess the purple states that insist on more autonomy and are more difficult to police (AZ, Colorado, Montana, Utah) will just sort of fly under the radar.

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            I think states will still band together a bit. New england would probably stick together. California, Oregon, and Washington. All of the south, including Florida now, would stick together too.

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        7 days ago

        If only we were so lucky. Americans aren’t going to stop this themselves, the rest of us need to arm ourselves and prepare to defend each other

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    I really think you all aren’t properly focusing on the word “you” here. By “you” he means “not them”… So he essentially is saying “You libtards can’t have guns, because us Maga-idiots will shoot you if you do”.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    So MAGA, let’s check the scoreboard:

    • America First - yeah, NO.
    • Release the Epstein Files - Who?
    • Lower prices on day one - tariffs are more important
    • 2A Champion - Only for who they choose.

    So what are you still in for? The voracious Corruption? The Pedophilia? The virtuosic incompetence? The sending Americans to die in another endless foreign war to make oil companies wealthy? Paramilitary Death Squads having spontaneous firing squads in the streets?

    This is what you voted for. Is this the free America you envisioned?

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      And everyone of them will say to you completely honestly, “it’s a freer America than if I had voted for a Democrat.”

      At this point it’s tribalism. Anyone who still supports Trump and the Republicans will always support them. Being Republican is part of their identity, it’s the identity they share with their family, friends and coworkers. It’s the identity of their community. They’re not going to walk away from all that just because one irresponsible ICE agent killed one guy in a democratic city. They can’t, they’d be walking away from everything they’ve known. Like their football team, they’ll cheer their team on no matter what because it’s their team. Simple as that.

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    And you’re still saying you don’t have a king ruling over you , America?

    He really shit all over your second amendment rights there. Wiped his royal butt with it.

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    “Gun control” will continue to be a means of controlling undesirables while the fash base is still supported.

    These current attacks are a good example. They’re attacking protesters in non-fashy areas. They’ll find similar ways of controlling guns for themselves.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    If I were a left leaning gun owner in the States, I would offer the same rhetoric the right has been spewing every time sensible gun control is attempted:

    MOLON LABE.