• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    So where are all those second amendment loving NRA patriots that believe that they need military grade firearms to protect their freedom from the tyranny of the government?

    Because if you’re waiting for the opportune moment, this is it.

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      13 days ago

      All these years we’ve been told that the reason it’s necessary to let innocent children die in mass shootings is just in case the need to overthrow a tyrannical government arises. Guess they died for nothing

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        13 days ago

        You know what fully ended school shootings? The pandemic lockdown. We know what causes school shootings; schools are an underfunded nightmare pressure cooker half a step away from the prison system. We know how to fix it, change the system. Since we rushed back to the system that causes the shootings as quickly as we could, I guess you could absolutely say they died for nothing and will continue to die for nothing, probably until there are no more humans left to die for nothing.

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      13 days ago

      You keep disarming yourself. The right has all the firearms. Who is driving the fascist? Is it the left? No… it’s the right wing…stop trying to disarm yourself, you make no fucking sense.

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        13 days ago

        There are lots and lots of lefties with guns who know how to use them. Many of them live in the Pacific Northwest, though certainly not all of them.

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          13 days ago

          What? The PNW has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US.

          What are these lefties armed with? Rocks?

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            12 days ago

            In the PNW you can buy AR-15s, shotguns, rifles, semi-auto pistols, and more.

            I think you’re confusing PNW with New York or some other location with “strict gun control”, which really just means that you travel to another state to purchase firearms anyway.

            Firearm sales have tripled since 2000, that’s our bread and butter.

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    13 days ago

    He’s not lying … crime IS on the rise in DC…

    His crime, his cronies crimes, his family’s crimes, all rising sharply…

    From crypto scams with rugpulling, to grifting people into buying Trump labeled goods, to insider trading and willfull stockmarket manipulation, from breaking the rule of law to punishing political opponents, to taking bribes and giving bribes so not to be accused, from lying about proven data to forcibly adjusting them to his will. And the crime list is growing almost daily…

    Each accusation is an admission of guilt.

  • Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I’ve developed a game plan for when this hits my city

    • I will not comply with any check points
    • I will force them to arrest me
    • I will demand a jury trial
    • I will be co-council with my attorney, he runs the case
    • I will make my own closing remarks

    Which will be

    "I refused to comply with a military-armed checkpoint. That is true.

    But my question to you is this — why was that checkpoint there in the first place? Are we at war? No. Has there been a terrorist attack that warrants such a measure? No.

    So the question before you isn’t simply why I refused to comply… it’s why the military was conducting random checkpoints in the streets of our community at all.

    I thought this was the United States of America — not Iraq, not Afghanistan. Our streets are not battlefields, and our neighbors are not enemy combatants.

    You, the jury, have a choice. You can accept this new reality — one where the military can set up checkpoints in our neighborhoods — and find me guilty.

    Or you can take a stand and say this is not the America we are meant to be, and find me not guilty.

    Those are the lines I wish to be judged by, because that was my intention from the very start."

    • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      From now on, whenever I see somebody doing the TACO thing, I’m going to assume they are accelerationists trying to get Trump to do something horrific. I don’t know why else you would do it. Surely nobody has deluded themselves into thinking they can just bully the guy out of office and then everything goes back to normal, right? Right?

      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        So tiptoe around the bully and change your behavior in the hopes he decides to leave you alone?

        Screw him, and screw his feelings. We have the right to free speech, it’s not “free speech as long as we don’t upset a jerk.” If he goes off the rails and pulls a Nero over it, that’s on HIM. I’m not gonna tiptoe around him with this “he who must not be named” crap in the hopes that he can be appeased by keeping quiet, and I’m ESPECIALLY not going to do it for MY servant, which is what he, as the president, is.

        • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          No, don’t tip toe. Actually do something. Go agitate. Get fucking angry. Throw a brick through a window. Start a community garden and call it the “Fuck Trump Garden”, but calling him taco on the internet is probably the least helpful thing you can be doing. Do it, chicken. Fucking do it. Bawk bawk bawk bawk. Chicken.