HeavenlyPossumJan 26

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.

Show threadThe Great Llama Jan 26

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I suspect they have to concentrate on THAT aspect because it's a lot less uncomfortable than facing the realization that they're just a handful of bad political choices from a similar mess.

"We made the guns illegal, so it'll be fine," is their equivalent to, "We'll vote them out in the midterms, it'll be fine."

Show threadPaddy DukeJan 26
@TheGreatLlama @HeavenlyPossum 100%. It’s just a comfort blanket embroidered with “That could never happen here.”
Show threadThe Great Llama Jan 26
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Those blankets are awful cozy. I don't really blame them for doing what we've been doing for 80 years.
Show threadG.G. For Now
@TheGreatLlama @paddyduke @HeavenlyPossum just read this book, very pertinent to this subject. In short: non-violence good as mass movement idea, not to preclude violence as self defense or defense of others, without the possibility of violence as defense it is hard to move forward given violence is present in the world.
Jan 26 at 6:15pmWeb
Show threadLevkaJan 26

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See also:

https://archive.org/details/robert-franklin-williams-negroes-with-guns/Black%20Power%20Movem/

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