@vonnieda @HeavenlyPossum @thomasjwebb I hope the responses to this show you the types of clowns you will encounter on Kolektiva. I’m not sure if it’s a Russian troll farm, the biggest collection of idiots this side of a Trump rally, or a combination of both.

They tell people not to vote… then when that leads to fascists taking power, they say violence is the only solution. Self-fulfilling prophecy from keyboard warriors that will never take up arms in a rebellion of any kind. An absolute clown show, and not the funny kind of clowns.

@mls14

You hate kolektiva? Block the instance...

I think we both know you will not accomplish anything here. Just save yourself the headache and leave...

@vonnieda @HeavenlyPossum @thomasjwebb

@PandaCab @vonnieda @HeavenlyPossum @thomasjwebb I want to see what opinions are out there even if I disagree. For example. I didn’t realize until this conversation that there were many gun nuts on the left too. I thought the gun-lovers were almost all with MAGA.

So, maybe they are trolls. Or maybe they are just very similar to MAGA in most ways, but do it from the “left”? Either way, I definitely learned something.

@mls14

I might be wrong but your previous comments implies that you do not think kolektiva users have good arguments, and that they're trolls at best. I feel like you have already made your mind...

Furthermore, seeing other opinions doesn't mean you have to interact with them... You barged in a thread you don't like and apparently makes you annoyed or even angry.

Why? This is *weird*.

@vonnieda @HeavenlyPossum @thomasjwebb

@PandaCab @vonnieda @HeavenlyPossum @thomasjwebb Is it any weirder than the interaction you started with me?

I got quite upset at somebody saying “buy guns” on the day of a mass shooting targeting children. I don’t regret it; more guns is unquestionably a very bad thing.

@mls14

You swooped in to accuse me of

- being a Russian agent
- being a member of the KKK
- causing Donald Trump’s second presidency
- fomenting violence in the US, and
- being like MAGA

So yeah it was pretty fucking something

@thomasjwebb @PandaCab @vonnieda

@HeavenlyPossum @mls14 @thomasjwebb @PandaCab @vonnieda These liberals wish I was getting paid by the Russkies. I serve up these hot takes for free, baby. I came to all these feelings & opinions as a natural result of living in the USA. I learned all this marxist/anarchist theory on the taxpayer dime at public colleges and libraries.

You have focused on gun ownership as an individualist consumer issue. Do you also advocate disarming the police? If not, then you’re not consistently anti-gun.

@HeavenlyPossum @mls14 @thomasjwebb @PandaCab @vonnieda In my city, the police actually commit a plurality of homicides. So it seems the fastest way to cut gun violence would be to disarm them.

Realistically, the USA has so many guns that we need something like demobilization on the scale of a country recovering from a civil war. Violence is facilitated by weapon access, but caused by social inequality. Pacifist Quaker/Amish farmers have guns too. They just use them responsibly for farm shit