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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • standing still trying to get a gun out of wherever they might have it

    this is why i said “get capable” in the first comment, which for some reason too many people think just obtaining the gun is enough to be able to use it safely/correctly, and that’s not the case.

    fair points about the “stand your ground” stuff though. i live in a rural bumfuck area and am always telling out of towners don’t EVER drive up on someone’s property if a) they don’t know you and b) they’re not expecting you. the census bureau couldn’t even hire anyone to do exactly that to collect census data; they started with an offer of $15/hr and had to keep raising the offer. it ended up at like ~$20/hr


  • he likely would have been killed instead of just getting getting wounded

    you are basing that on…what? the fact that he was only wounded is irrelevant. he could have just as easily been killed. or the shooter could have missed, in which case it probably would have never even made it to the news. either way, this vapid argument of “having a gun = you’re going to get killed, therefore, don’t have a gun” needs to go away. if someone’s going to shoot you, they’re going to shoot you. and the number of those “someones” is increasing by the minute.

    again, do what you want. i’m packing






  • She added: “And the other thing that’s interesting, I was thinking about this the other day, is that eventually regimes make science and medicine bow to their ideology. So the communists would, you know, use psychiatrists to say that dissidents or journalists who didn’t agree with the regime had to go to psychiatric hospitals.

    this is extremely dangerous (because what do you do when a state-owned “psychiatrist” accuses you of being “mentally unstable”? say “no, i’m not”?), especially now with facial recognition technology–remember they were able to find most of the j6 insurrectionists, aided by social media posts. and that was before a blatantly fascist dictator owned the NSA, FBI, etc

    if you’re going to go above the radar, then you need to be careful. mask up, leave your phone at home, cover tattoos–all of it. assume any place you’re protesting is covered by 24/7 surveillance cams. i live in a tiny town and even here, there really isn’t a spot downtown that isn’t covered by at least 2 cameras, let alone the spots where people protest


  • if you have people who depend on you being alive especially kids, elderly parents, friends/family who are less than 100% white/straight/male/documented/evangelical/etc-- it’s really time to get rid of the anti-gun mindset

    yes, zero guns = zero gun crime

    but that’s never going to happen. what we’ve had and will have for the forseeable future is a fascist state, full of “patriots” just waiting for a reason (or no reason) to shoot someone with impunity, as evidenced by the OP article and countless others. will justice be served? probably not. should you bring a knife nothing to a gunfight?-- NO.

    your choice is your choice. but a lot of the noble ideas of making society better-- no guns, better healthcare, better environment, better education, and on and on-- that’s all out the window for now, and it’s time to think of survival. because people are still getting shot in the back for no fucking reason whatsoever.

    get armed. get capable. do not let decent people become extinct because of “nO gUnS eVeR” stuff—that’s exactly what they want









  • i hope every fucking 3rd party voter has to choose between rent and eating along with all the pridefully ignorant bumblefuck maga knuckledraggers

    edit: LOL i love how the “vOtE 3rD pArTy!!!” chuds have literally nothing to say anymore–can only downvote.

    “i DoNt WaNnA vOtE fOr GeNoCiDe!!!”

    great job, fucko. now we have genocide in gaza AND in america

    enjoy your fucking tariffs. and if you’re less than 100% white/male/straight/evangelical/republican, then enjoy all the things that go along with being “other” in a fascist state (hint: fucking genocide)