Temporarily Doctor DoomOh, the knowledge that if I'm ever shot in the back after leaving an event for Jewish young professionals and repeatedly shot as I’m crawling away, the New York Times will wax philosophical about my murderer.
samiamsamNYT is disgusting
Tengrain 🇺🇦The murderer booked a ticket to a Jewish museum event to kill Jews. He would have killed more but his gun jammed.
NYT and many other outlets and personalities and organizations online spending time parsing out whether or not street murder of civilians is just part of normal behavior.
Gee, I wonder where this leads.
@Tengrain @samiamsam Debating violence as a way to solve problems isn’t solving any. Neither is the violence.
If anyone finds that questionable out there, they don’t need to hang out with me.
MJ@TonyStark @samiamsam @Tengrain
I think a lot of people have amnesia or are cool with purposefully suppressing reality.
For example, the Black Lives Matter movement started with Black and POC people marching for justice and ended with white people setting shit on fire and attacking police for fun while we kept telling those freaks to get out of our movement.
Those white people? They’re now Free Palestine.
liferstate@MJ A certain number of people on the far left have convinced themselves that if shit isn't being set on fire, if there's no spray paint involved, it's not a meaningful protest. But the fact is you can't build a mass movement if normies stop showing up for protests because they have a reputation for getting out of hand.
@samiamsam @liferstate @TonyStark @Tengrain Well off whites who want an excuse to break stuff and let POC get arrested. This is what anyone who says “we need to consider stronger means” wants. Their own militia.
@MJ This is why I don't feel great about leftist gun culture. "Militias can be Good, Actually, if the people forming them have correct ideas" is how movements get infiltrated by people who care more about a particular aesthetic of Resistance than about making real change outside the subculture.
DB@liferstate @MJ @samiamsam @TonyStark @Tengrain Liberal gun owner here. Don’t know about extremists on the left, but no one I know wants violence or is looking for violence. That said, I’m hearing from people about how to stay safe (leaving firearms aside), resist Fascism, and the very real, IMO, possibility that we devolve into resistance to RW militias and a response by insurgency. #liberalgunowners
@lawyersgunsnmoney @liferstate @MJ @samiamsam @TonyStark
I’ve told Republicans for years that liberals do indeed own guns and know how to use them! Thanks for proving the case for me!
Anyway, despite enjoying “Red Dawn” (Kid of the ‘80s here!) I don’t think a militia stands a chance against the full force of the military. I wouldn’t encourage that.
@Tengrain @liferstate @MJ @samiamsam @TonyStark The MAGA people don’t believe, but it’s true. There are millions of liberal gun owners - responsible, diverse and just quiet about it. I don’t advocate for creating militias (which are illegal). If the US military began attacking US citizens I think it would be divided between the MAGA/Fascists and those who don’t want to shoot their neighbors
@lawyersgunsnmoney @Tengrain @liferstate @MJ @TonyStark
i am a liberal gun owner
they don't think we exist
they are are incorrect
@samiamsam @lawyersgunsnmoney @Tengrain @liferstate @MJ I’m for everyone being able to exercise their rights, although statistically the ownership doesn’t really make us any safer.
But yeah, liberal gun owners exist. One of the dumber things I’ve seen here from the leftists is the criticism that Kamala Harris talked about gun ownership as if that was a horrifying thing for her to talk about and it disqualified her from being electable for them.
But, most of them are box of rocks stupid.
@TonyStark @samiamsam @Tengrain @liferstate @MJ I think my ownership of firearms keeps me safer - others who don’t want to or who don’t feel safe based on their own self assessment (good for them!) or they are rightly concerned about kids around shouldn’t have them. I agree about that criticism of Kamala - she has the right to protect herself too. They are as dumb as a box of rocks
@lawyersgunsnmoney @samiamsam @Tengrain @liferstate @MJ I’m just a big person on statistics. It’s a thing for me and statistically it doesn’t match up. Maybe a lot of people do it for the wrong reasons or are careless. But that part is hard to study. A significant number of people have their guns used in an unintended way, like a family member gets a hold of it. Our gun homicide rate is awful for a high income country. Sad.
Anyway, hope it never gets to the point where anyone has to worry.
@TonyStark @samiamsam @Tengrain @liferstate @MJ It’s a big country and safety, like real estate, is local. I am aware of the statistics and don’t deny them. It doesn’t change my opinion about how to keep me or my family safe. Given the rise of the new Gestapo, LE on their side, the encouragement of RW militias thru pardons, I see more reasons for being armed,