• misterdoctor
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    546 days ago

    USA, the land of seemingly unlimited guns yet none of you will do anything about the dictatorship that is happening before your eyes.

    Remember how America has the largest military on the planet, and how even our local police forces are armed with machines of war and mass destruction. Yeah, every single one of those guys works for the dictator so forgive me if I don’t go John Fucking Rambo on the White House with a repeater I bought at Walmart.

    We’re showing up to protests by the millions, we’re using our voices, we’re pressuring elected leaders to stand up and fight back, we’re fucking trying to stop this shit, so honestly fuck off with this sort of reductive armchair general critiquing.

    • @[email protected]
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      376 days ago

      Remember how America has the largest military on the planet, and how even our local police forces are armed with machines of war and mass destruction.

      This guy went against a column of tanks with two bags of groceries.

      Americans can’t get organised to march with their guns to see how far the military will defend the dictatorship, when you make it hard for them.

      So for years we’ve been right about the 2A, completely useless and only there to feed the military-industrial machine, weak egos and gang violence.

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        186 days ago

        He also got disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Not exactly the example I’d use.

          • @[email protected]
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            76 days ago

            By pointing out American hypocrisy through a reductionist view of gun politics in the U.S.?

            If you can’t figure out by now that the majority of blue voters are not the ones who were arming themselves… or that they were the ones voting for gun control… what are you trying to say, again?

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                  6 days ago

                  The time for my contributions to matter to the problems in the US is kinda gone.

                  The point is that it’s up to you now.

                  I’ll do what I can to help but it’s not like rational dicussion of policy will matter much now, will it? Now would be the time to utilise the 2A if it had any leg to stand on, but as we’ve been telling the American conservatives (and other gun enthusiasts) for years, it doesn’t.

                  Ironic it went this way but literally, what can I do?

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                    So, let me get this straight, you think that you’re entitled to being a smug prick because of what? Because you’ve said something to someone? Who? How much do you want to bet that it was someone who already agreed with you?

                    Beyond which, I’ve gotten into a discussion with you before - what makes you think you’re particularly gifted in convincing… anyone? Of anything? How many people, we’re talking hard MAGA conservatives (you know, the people who need to be unbrainwashed) have you convinced?

                    Please, tell me what you’ve done Lord Dasus - give me your receipts. Show me what you’ve done. Prove it.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    16 days ago

                    Ironic it went this way but literally, what can I do?

                    Well if we could harness the power of Smug you could light up the world.

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        56 days ago

        Yeah and he died. Get off your fucking high horse and stop pressuring people to commit suicide in the name of what you think is right.

        • @[email protected]
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          156 days ago

          Oh no, is standing up to dictators and fascism dangerous?

          Well better just lick boots then, huh?

          It’s not like fascism ever endangered any lives, right? It’s not like we had this exact conversation about “resistance not being the answer, we can’t be expected to put ourself in danger” 100 years ago.

          And back then we let the fascist fucksticks get all the way to engineered killing camps. Are we gonna let them get that far — again?

          And if you’re gonna say something about me being a keyboard warrior, I’m ready and trained and in the Finnish reserves. I don’t like the idea of having to engage in combat, but I’ll do what is necessary if it comes to that.

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          56 days ago

          Honest question and I don’t want to antagonise: If it came to it, what would you give your life for?

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      86 days ago

      Sit there and wait for them to kill you instead. Guns are your only hope. Until you wake up and realize it you’ll watch your countrymen be killed en masse. Possibly your own family and friends. Just because it’s not you right now doesn’t mean it’s not going to be.