Mastodawn

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@WiteWulf/115962212168435175

There is something particularly obscene about watching Americans literally fighting and dying in the streets of Minneapolis to protect their immigrant neighbors from a fascist pogrom and choosing to focus on “gun violence” as an abstract issue to solve by disarming those same Americans.

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HeavenlyPossum Jan 26

I get the sense that more Europeans than I had I realized have crafted their identities around a sense of smug superiority over primitive, barbaric Americans and a handful of stock issues like “the guns.”

Which is how you end up with people who probably imagine themselves to be sensible liberals laser-focused on “gun violence” as if it is a cultural trait rather than on the guns that literal fascists are currently using to murder people on the streets.

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Uzi Bobuzi

@HeavenlyPossum Oh for sure. I lived in the UK for four years around the turn of the millennium. Every single Brit that heard I was American would start talking about how we're all gun nuts here. They didn't want to hear anything different. I got a lot of scorn for being an American while living in Europe, including being held personally responsible for the Bush presidency (which I never supported). I was told when we traveled to SE Asia to tell people I was Canadian for similar reasons.