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rivermonster , in Georgia teacher fired after reading book on gender to fifth-grade class
Tigbitties , in Nickelback, Chris Brown, and other stars scored $200 million in taxpayer funds meant to keep arts groups afloat during the pandemic. They won't say what they did with the money.
@Tigbitties@kbin.social avatar

Was it cocaine and hookers?

andallthat ,

Thank you! Everyone acting like hundreds of hookers’ and pushers’ livelihoods don’t depend on these guys. It’s just tricke-down economics at work!

dethb0y , in Russia’s lander experiences ‘emergency situation’ while approaching lunar surface

Be interesting to see if they can sort it out prior to landing or what

rivermonster , in Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead
Shortstack , (edited ) in Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead

The reality is that terrorists like this guy are armed and carrying all the time, but the second amendment is for all Americans including liberals, lefties, moderates and everyone in between.

Im not advocating for violence, in fact having a concealed carry permit nearly always means the exact opposite. Someone being aggressive? You walk away and let them win. Someone tailgating you? Let them pass.

Carrying is about situations like this, between a shop owner with a rainbow flag and someone out looking for an excuse to murder someone over rage bait.

ThrowawayPermanente ,

We need more people who think like you

Shortstack ,

There’s more than you realize.

You likely don’t hear much about it because liberal gun owners don’t fetishize guns or base their personality around them like the chuds on the other side of the fence do. Guns are tools, not an identity.

fosho ,

the problem I have with this is that you’re basically saying more people should have guns. a significant part of the issue is that there already are too many guns around and accessible and that is statistically going to result in more alterations resulting in shooting. you can talk about how much respect guns should be given all you want. but if more people have guns then there will be more gun violence.

Liz ,

It’s a balance between individual rights and societal safety. You have a right to defend yourself from threats to your life and safety by using deadly force. To say otherwise removes the ability for a good chunk of the population to adequately defend themselves. I’m related to plenty of people who cannot defend their life against the average male aggressor without a gun, and you are too. At a certain point size and strength are insurmountable.

But yes, encouraging people to responsibility engage with firearms for self defense use means that there will be more guns floating around, which means more accidents, suicides, and murders. Just as with any other choice for the rules of society, it’s a trade-off. How much do we value keeping the right to adequate self-defense as a universal right? How much do we value preventing accidental injury and death?

The classic comparison is cars, simply because the annual death numbers are similar, and pretty much no other reason. But even so, we can draw parallels. Cars have mandatory features that reduce the likelihood of injury without impacting the usefulness or general experience of using a car. So too do guns, with nearly all guns having to meet industry requirements for safety, like being able to handle an overpressure event, and being drop-safe.

Cars have a licensing procedure (though it’s essentially a joke here in the US) and a licensing procedure would be fine for guns, so long as it can’t be used to restrict access (racist approvals and denials would become a problem in a hurry). My ideal licensing program would be a free handling skills course where failure would require some sort gross negligence, and even then you’d still get racist denials.

And really, this is the fundamental problem with guns: I (and many others) view them as a necessary tool to accessing a highly valuable right. The chances you’ll need a gun are very low, but the cost of not having it can be very high. You don’t have full control over whether someone else will attempt to take your life, and I don’t want to say to a large chunk of the population “we’re going to take away your ability to defend yourself in order to save other people who would still have that option either way.”

And I want to be clear, I completely agree with the other person. If you’re going to bring guns into your life, you had better learn medical skills, social skills, and you had better train with your firearm in somewhat realistic conditions. You should carry pepper spray, you should practice learning how to actually effectively calm people down, you need to learn how to safely store your guns and ammo, etc. Etc.

I get the desire ban guns in order to save lives, but you’d also be endangering others. Compare that with the car analogy, and banning cars would have a similar trade-off. Some people would live thanks to not getting in a car accident, others would die thanks to not having the same level of mobility (which has about a billion knock-on effects for quality of life).

MyEdgyAlt ,

Without regard to the rest of your comment, somehow the lack of guns works ok in Europe and they aren’t all exactly equally sized.

fosho ,

I think your argument sounds good until you look at other countries. I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing there aren’t more violent attacks on vulnerable people in countries that have gun bans. I think it’s possible you’re exaggerating the fear of attack without factoring in the overall safety benefits of removing so much gun violence. I’m convinced that if it could be done the benefits would fast out weigh the draw backs.

obviously the reality is that actually accomplishing this task in a country whose identity is so pathetically attached to guns is the impossible task. there’s already just too many gun nuts so that ship had long sailed.

regardless, to me there’s no question whether it would be better or worse for there to be more people with guns.

Liz ,

Oh, no, it’s just that I don’t weigh all violence as equal. I have a different value system then you do when it comes to interpersonal violence and that’s okay that we disagree there.

To me, removing a potential victim’s ability to protect themselves isn’t worth removing a potential victim from being attacked at all. To me, they’re not a 1:1 trade. You probably disagree, and that’s okay, but I place a high value on an individual’s agency, to the point where I’m willing to let them live in a slightly more dangerous society to get it.

This trade-off exists in all areas of life, and I don’t necessarily side with personal freedom in all of them (I would ban cars if I could), but I do in this area.

fosho ,

so selfishness then. got it. your desires for yourself are more important than what’s better for everyone. you can’t pretend this is your choice for others. it’s definitely for yourself.

Liz ,

Uh, no, it’s so that everyone has the ability to make the choice for themselves. We could force everyone to live in padded cells for their own safety, but we both agree that’s ridiculous. We’re just arguing over what is and is not an acceptable trade-off between safety and agency.

fosho ,

in this case there’s only really 2 options: better for society or better for yourself. you can’t argue it’s better for everyone to have the choice to own killing weapons when it’s clear that position results in more gun violence and death.

Shortstack , (edited )

You’re not wrong and I mainly don’t disagree with you.

But look at it from another perspective.

Those millions of guns in households are largely in the hands of conservatives since gun ownership skews heavily towards white people, males, and those living in rural areas which we already know also skews conservative, within which is a subset that fantasize about having a reason to murder their neighbors over dumb shit like colorful flags or opinions.

Liberals are much more diverse of a population than conservatives which means that when it comes to liberals, women or poc the odds of them having a fighting chance are not great in a life or death situation they didnt create, vs who is most likely to be the aggressors, conservative white men.

My take on it is that the cat is already out of the bag. In a perfect world I would prefer not having easy to operate life-ending tools spread freely throughout the country, but that’s not the reality we live in. The best shot we have is to even the playing field so to speak even with the downsides it presents. The current status quo is letting terrorists gun us down with impunity and that doesn’t sit well with me.

SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

I mean… I kind of get where you’re coming from but “with impunity”? The shooter is now dead. If they weren’t dead they’d be either executed eventually or in prison for 50+ years, or more likely, life.

Shortstack , (edited )

The trouble with this is that like @Liz pointed out in her comment about individual rights vs societal safety, from the perspective of the individual being shot, it is with impunity.

That woman had a right to life and safety and some stupid asshole came along and ended that no matter what justice the shooter rightfully faces after the fact.

SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

Yeah that’s fair.

RecursiveParadox ,
@RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world avatar

I disagree and think the core problem of too many guns could be solved the same way other Anglophone nations did it.

However, your argument was very well written, and I appreciate both its intention and its focus on the human.

tacosplease ,

I’m open to a solution, but it’s unrealistic to expect Americans to give/sell back enough of their guns for it to work like it did in Australia.

We have A LOT more guns here, and each one lasts 100 years or more. We could give up 99% of them (we wouldn’t though) and there would still be like 6 million guns here.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Demanding people give up their guns would just cause an open civil war. The solution that worked in other countries wouldn’t work here because the ideology is different.

Shortstack ,

I have no faith that what has worked in europe would work here given the political and cultural landscape before us. If it was feasible for america I’m not sure we would be in this situation now.

I wish it was, you and me both, but until that changes I’m simply accepting the lay of the land for what it is and reacting accordingly. We can work towards a better solution in the meantime; these actions and thoughts are not mutually exclusive.

However, your argument was very well written, and I appreciate both its intention and its focus on the human.

Thanks for the kind words. It is rather annoying being the change I want to see in the world though.

Vlyn ,

Carrying doesn’t do crap for self defense. The moment a crazy asshole pulls their gun at you and shoots you won’t even be able to comprehend the situation quick enough and get your own piece out of the holster.

The crazy asshole always wins as they shoot first (they are usually cowards on top, so you might just get shot in the back).

More guns just leads to more crazy assholes with guns, I feel much safer in European countries.

Shortstack ,

In the situation you outline, yeah you’d have no real chance at protecting yourself. And those situations do happen in cases like the Las Vegas hotel shooting or any of the various school shootings we’re seeing all over these days.

In many other cases even the most craven assholes need to work themselves up to shoot another human being.

That means arguments, harassment and threats.

These are helpful advance warning signs that tell you that you’re entering dangerous waters and de-escalation tactics take priority. Many of our lady friends can already tell from a mile away if someone is dangerous even before they start flapping their mouthholes as a matter of everyday survival.

If all of that fails and I hope to god that it doesn’t, that’s when having a concealed weapon gives you a fighting chance at defending your right to live. Especially for women, guns are the great equalizer.

More guns just leads to more crazy assholes with guns

You’re right, this is true.

Unfortunately the cost of encountering a rather persistent strapped terrorist is extremely high even if the chance of it happening to you is low.

Vlyn ,

Well, I rather live in a country where pretty much no one is strapped (except police and military and even then not all of them).

Even the whole hero fantasy a lot of Americans have, it doesn’t work out. There is a famous video of someone shooting up a mall. A random guy carrying tried to sneak up on him. Then the girlfriend of the shooter popped him right in the head from behind (as he didn’t notice her following at a distance).

DLSchichtl ,

It’s not about self defense in this case, I think. It’s about sending a message that they/we/the lefties ain’t gonna take it laying down. If you truly want to see the right shit themselves, start arming lefties.

Vlyn ,

You mean start arming black people. Fastest way to get gun regulation in the US.

tacomafish12 , in Marijuana and hallucinogen use, binge drinking reached record highs in middle-aged adults, survey finds

It’s cause we don’t stigmatize weed and hallucinogens like past generations have. The booze is probably because of COVID, or that we’re just all a bit depressed with being fucked over by life in general. Booze has always been there, but weed and hallucinogens don’t leave you fucking hungover.

kromem , in Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead

The bio of the victim from her store’s website:

Lauri Carleton’s career in fashion began early in her teens, working in the family business at Fred Segal Feet in Los Angeles while attending Art Center School of Design. From there she ran “the” top fashion shoe floor in the US at Joseph Magnin Century City. Eventually she joined Kenneth Cole almost from its inception and remained there for over fifteen years as an executive, building highly successful businesses, working with factories and design teams in Italy and Spain, and traveling 200 plus days a year.

With a penchant for longevity, she has been married to the same man for 28 years and is the mother of a blended family of nine children, the youngest being identical twin girls. She and her husband have traveled the greater part of the US, Europe and South America. From these travels they have nourished a passion for architecture, design, fine art, food, fashion, and have consequently learned to drink in and appreciate the beauty, style and brilliance of life. Their home of thirty years in Studio City is a reflection of this passion, as well as their getaway- a restored 1920’s Fisherman’s Cabin in Lake Arrowhead. Coveting the simpler lifestyle with family, friends and animals at the lake is enhanced greatly by their 1946 all mahogany Chris-Craft; the ultimate in cultivating a well appreciated and honed lifestyle.

Mag.Pi for Lauri is all about tackling everyday life with grace and ease and continuing to dream…

What a waste. A tragedy for that whole family for literally nothing. No reason at all other than small minded assholes.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Yeah, it’s the second civil war starting. Expect to see more terrible garbage like this on your feeds as we reach 2024 and beyond.

figaro ,

I’m curious, do you actually think there is going to be another civil war?

pinkdrunkenelephants , (edited )

We’re literally already in one. We’ve been in a cold civil war for about a decade now (arguably the past few decades), and the war’s been growing hotter with every mass shooting and tragedy like this one.

This is how civil wars are fought in the modern age. It’s not all fancy suits and muskets. It’s large swaths of people with opposing views killing each other over it at every opportunity, like this one.

Why do you think school shootings happen? Or mass shootings in general? The vast majority of them are committed by members of right-wing hate groups and it’s part of this civil war they’ve been waging against the left. The whole point is to eradicate the left or force them to submit to their will.

bamfic ,

The first civil war never ended. It entered a cold phasw for 150 years or so. That’s heating up now.

GlendatheGayWitch ,

There were even people waving the battle flag of the Confederate army/navy when the neoconfederates invaded Congress on January 6, 2021.

I still can’t believe that these people are getting such light sentences for taking up arms and invading the Capitol.

prole ,

If they were communists, they’d have been executed by now.

afraid_of_zombies ,

A viewpoint like that is very subject to confirmation bias. Literally any crime is held up as evidence that it is correct. Look at the terms you are using “cold” “about a decade”. It isn’t a who, what, where, why, and how. It is vague.

Reverse it for a moment. Treat it like a claim in science. What evidence would you use to try to prove your hypothesis wrong?

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

My guy, it’s obvious to the rest of us what’s going on and if you can’t observe current events for five seconds and see it for yourself, nothing I ever tell you will change your mind.

The truth doesn’t depend on you believing it. All I have to do is express it. It’s up to you what you decide what you’re going to do with it. Listen to it and you have a chance to prepare and you might survive when it all blows up next year. Don’t and you won’t unless you get lucky – at the very least, you’ll suffer the way refugees of civil wars always do. It’s your choice.

afraid_of_zombies ,

These are rhetoric tricks. Refusing to defend your viewpoint and trying to use carrot+stick.

Why not answer my question? It will be easier than bring out stuff that would have been caught that easily.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

It’s the truth. It’s like asserting that because I can’t give the scientific explanation for why the grass is green, it must not be, while I am pointing at the grass on the ground and showing you its color.

Again, it’s up to you to be willing to accept the reality in front of you and what has been happening innthis country for decades together. It’s up to you to be willing to overcome your own pride to save yourself and your family from what’s coming. I can only lead you to water. It is you who must choose to drink. Choose wisely. Your family depends on it.

afraid_of_zombies ,

’s like asserting that because I can’t give the scientific explanation for why the grass is green, it must not be, while I am pointing at the grass on the ground and showing you its color.

Your analogy is false. We have as much data as we want that grass is green. We have no data about the future since it hasn’t happened yet. To predict the future to any degree we have to look at trends of the past and apply the scientific method to it.

Again, it’s up to you to be willing to accept the reality in front of you

Forgot the name for this one. It is when you assume the conclusion to get the conclusion. I know it’s a basic logical fallacy.

I can only lead you to water.

Ok your Cassandra/Jeremiah routine is wearing thin.

Choose wisely. Your family depends on it.

Bifurcation, and FUD.

Intralexical ,

Forgot the name for this one. It is when you assume the conclusion to get the conclusion. I know it’s a basic logical fallacy.

Tautology. Circular reasoning, if you will.

Polydextrous ,

…what the fuck are you talking about.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

I’m giving an analogy to demonstrate why his basis for denialism is wrong. He demands a scientific explanation for why an easily observable phenomenon is the way it is in order to accept what his eyes see. It’s not enough for him to look at something and see it for what it is.

As in he needs to be told why the grass is green to accept that it is green. It’s not enough for him to just look at it and see for himself that it is, in fact, green.

Replace “grass is green” with “civil war is happening”, and you’ll understand.

Intralexical ,

…Right. So, based entirely on faith, with nothing to substantiate it, and with a healthy dose of some weird Messianic complex.

Also, as another commenter pointed out, we actually have surprisingly robust data affirming that yes, indeed, the spectral albedo of grass does show peaks in the 530-550nm range correlating to M-type cone photoreceptor cells­— I.E., Is green. Civil war isn’t the sort of thing you’re going to be able to pass off as self-evident.

catchy_name ,

Here’s a podcast where the first handful of episodes lays out what it’d look like if a civil war were to happen and why the author thinks there’s a reasonable chance that it could happen.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…/id1449762156?i=10…

slumlordthanatos ,

I do really like Robert Evans, but this is something I wholeheartedly disagree with. Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo could definitely happen, but I think it’s far more likely that we’ll see an American version of The Troubles. I don’t think there are enough people who would truly be willing to fight and die over this; but there’s plenty of people willing to commit terrorist bombings or acts of sabotage if they think they can get away with it.

PRUSSIA_x86 ,

I think the most likely scenario is a dissolution limitation, similar to what happened with the soviet union.

nilloc ,

The Soviet Union didn’t collapse from political rhetoric and hurt feelings.

And the morons with enough guns and ammo to fight a war are far too economically comfortable to want actually want one.

If the shit really ever did hit the fan having a few chickens and a garden is going to get you a lot farther than a few thousand rounds.

afraid_of_zombies ,

The bar for starting a podcast is a 10 dollar headset.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

You should probably look into the person behind it before you throw out your own worthless opinion that had no bar at all towards publication.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Show me what I said that was opinion. Oh I am sorry, was that a strawman?

I stated a fact. “The bar for starting a podcast is a 10 dollar headset.”

Ser_Ocelot ,

Oh so that was a non sequitur unrelated to the podcast link posted, since you didn’t specifically criticise that specific podcast?

Robert Evans is a journalist btw

afraid_of_zombies ,

So he has a 11 dollar headset?

prole ,

I haven’t listened to the podcast, so maybe I’m wrong… but isn’t the “it” in “it could happen here” referring to fascism, not a second civil war?

Pretty important distinction imo

nutsack ,

there aren’t enough psychopaths to have a civil war over lgbt flags

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Don’t tempt fate by challenging it.

nutsack ,

if there’s a civil war that stupid, then the country deserves to end

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Honestly, it should have ended a long time ago.

nutsack ,

why are they downvoting you? fuck america suck my balls lmao

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Because they support the status quo at all costs, even their own family’s lives. That’s what propaganda does to a motherfucker.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Nah, it’s just a chance to finish the job Reconstruction failed to do.

Asafum ,

Lmao.

While I agree that is what should happen, there is literally nothing about current day Democrats that makes me think they’ll actually take the hard stance and punish people for their actions. We’ll have Biden or whoever is in charge at the time saying some bullshit “we need to heal now. We’ve been though rough times, let’s welcome our neighbors back home. Blah blah blah no repercussions other than for the ring leaders.”

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

These same people couldn’t go three weeks without a haircut in 2020. There are some who’ll shoot someone over a pride flag, but not enough to fight a war. They’d be begging to surrender the first time their grocery order doesn’t arrive.

pinkdrunkenelephants , (edited )

Actually American gun owners have about 78-157 billion bullets stockpiled between them, most of them right-wing. They regularly train with their weapons and have made this second civil war into an important aspect of their culture. A lot of them believe it’s the end times because the book of revelations talks of brother turning against brother.

The left is actually woefully untrained and outmatched, and that’s because of years of nonviolence being browbeaten over their heads and used to propagandize them to do nothing to meaningfully advance any of their causes. The left was fattened up with decades of propaganda and are now ready for the slaughter.

So is the right, really. The only ones who are going to win this coming civil war are the BRICS countries.

sndmn ,

Your ass is not a legitimate source to pull facts from.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Statistical averages are, however. 47% of Americans own a gun. They have on average 500-1000 bullets on hand at any one time, enough for one or two trips to their gun ranges, which totals up to 78 to 157 billion bullets.

Just because you are insulted when faced with the fact that the left is woefully unprepared for that does not make it not true. Reality does not bend to your wishes.

You can either accept the facts as I present them to you and prepare yourself, or when this whole thing blows up next year, suffer. Your choice.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

I take offense of your using “the left” to refer to the unarmed liberal masses.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

That attitude is why the left will be killed by those right-wing cult scumbags.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Ok lib

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Jesus Christ, you actually are offended 🤦 Look, if you care about ensuring the right wing loses, which you’ll need to do to prevent fascism and genocide, you’ll put aside your pride and fix the problem. You don’t, and everyone suffers. It’s as simple as that.

Beaupedia ,

I think you’re confusing us finding you insufferable with us being offended. Your weird little fantasies are cringey and boring, not offensive.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

And you’re really bad at hiding it, too. But the reality of my words is there whether you want to believe it or not. I can only lead you to water, you’re the one who has to make the choice to drink. The only one who’s gonna suffer from it is you and your family if you don’t. 🤷

SupraMario ,

500-1k rounds is nothing. Most of us have usually 10-20k rounds. 500 rounds is what I burn through in a range day. Hell I’ve got probably 50k 22lr at this point alone. And that’s just for plinking. 9mm/308/x39/556/54r/20g/12g/45 combined that’s probably another 40k rounds.

Most of us buy in bulk, ammo isn’t cheap, so when deals come around you buy as much as you can afford.

So I’d say your estimates are on the low end.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

That just makes the situation even worse. I worry for next year.

SupraMario ,

Huh? Having ammo doesn’t make anything worse. People have been stock piling it for decades now. Ammo doesn’t expire if it’s properly stored. I don’t see how having it magically makes anything worse.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

It does when it’s mostly right wingers hankering for genocide doing it.

Apex_Fail ,

As a left leaning individual with multiple firearms and plenty of ammunition for them, might want to consider there are plenty of us are part of that 47%.

Obviously a sample bias, but quite a few fellow veterans that I went to college with could put my meager collection to shame and share similar viewpoints.

That being said, your doomer outlook and gross oversimplification/assumptions are a joke. There will be no civil war, assholes will continue to be assholes, and you are still making this shit up as you type. Most of these Meal Team 6, cosplaying motherfuckers are too chickenshit to have an altercation where they aren’t the only one with the scary broomstick, and 99% of the blowhards wouldn’t last a day in an actual combat scenario let alone a “war”.

Bigots are bigots and will constantly attempt to suppress that which doesn’t align with their narrow minded worldview, however a civil war is not on the horizon… JFC get over yourself.

TwoWeebles , (edited )

I think liberal gun owners have 1. A much better grasp of the first rule of fight club, 2. Don’t have a fetish about what amounts to a tool.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

There’s no real evidence to substantiate that claim, but a whole lot of right wingers are open about their gun ownership. Which I agree is stupid, but that’s just how reality is.

Some sauce:

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there is a stark partisan divide in gun ownership. About 44% of adults who identify as Republican or lean Republican say they own a gun, while just 20% of those who identify as Democrat or lean Democrat say they do, according to Pew.

Where a person lives also plays a role. The Pew survey found that 46% of those who lived in rural areas said they owned a gun, while only 28% of suburbanites and 19% of city dwellers owned a gun. The Northeast has the lowest rates of gun ownership at 16%, while roughly a third of people in the South, Midwest and West report personally owning a gun.

So clearly right wingers are twice as likely to own guns as left wingers, meaning they will likeky win a civil war when it comes down to it, and given what they want, you can’t afford to continue being in denial about this. Your life is at stake here.

prole ,

And you think all of that 47% are not only right-leaning, but crazy enough to use those firearms to murder people unprovoked?

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

I know so. I used to be a centrist who ran with them for several years, so I know their ways and habits, and how and what they think. They are just waiting for some kind of signal to start, and that signal will likely be Trump going to jail or being barred from the presidency under the Constitution upon conviction.

CSharp ,

What moved you from a centrist to a militant leftist?

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Interacting with them for a long time.

ArthurParkerhouse ,

It kinda sounds like you listened to the original run of the “It Could Happen Here” podcast series a few too many times. It could happen here, but the probability of it sparking is very low, and even then the probability of that spark growing beyond anything more than localized/isolated incidents is even lower.

Bytemeister ,

Yes, they have a lot of guns. On the other hand, we’ve had to tell them, at least twice in my lifetime, not to drink bleach to cure diseases.

They won’t last a week.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

They’re really, really not as stupid as you think and underestimating them to make yourself feel better will only result in suffering for you and yours. It’s enabled them to do so much damage already.

If they’re really so stupid, how did they manage to pack the courts and get abortion banned? Get Trump elected?

Bytemeister ,

I’d say there are more gun-owning Democrats than there are critically thinking Republicans. Trump voters are the kind of people that fall for Nigerian prince email scams…twice.

TheJims OP ,

They elect figurative Nigerian princes… every fucking time

ImmortanStalin ,

You’re confusing normal Americans with the owners of the country. Also, plenty of militant leftists are armed in the US and not all gun owners are crazy fascists.

nilloc ,

The ones that think they can win a civil war are pretty fucking dumb. They do have a lot of weaponry though and that is something we should be concerned about and needs to be acted on.

A bunch of Dems arming up isn’t the answer though. We need to make sure the war mongers don’t get back in charge and we need to keep hunting down the dangerous threats and arresting there asses.

sfgifz ,

I’ve seen enough Doomsday Peppers to know that these “prepared” right wingers will be gasping for breath on the floor when it actually comes time to run and do something physically strenuous. Fat fucks couldn’t even breath through a thin mask, their brain cells are the only thing they’ll slaughter due to lack of oxygen.

Catasaur ,
@Catasaur@lemmy.catasaur.xyz avatar

That’s what you hope. The reality is that they’re armed and militant, and people will be shocked when they start going door to door.

SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

Are you confusing Y’all Quaeda with the Gestapo? Wtf. Even if 100 militias somehow defied everything we’ve been seeing for decades and somehow evaded getting caught early in the planning phase due to the surveillance state, what makes you think anything they’d do wouldn’t be shut down by military police within a week?

It sounds almost like you’re getting off on a weird horror fantasy from a super shitty movie.

Catasaur ,
@Catasaur@lemmy.catasaur.xyz avatar

The denial about encroaching fascism makes about as much sense as denying climate change.

SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

Right, comparing me to a science denying asshole without providing a single shred of argument… definitely has me convinced now

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

A lot of the people brigading are actually alt-right dipshits from other servers. Some are left-wingers in denial … and when this thing blows up next year, they might die. :(

CSharp ,

!RemindMe 1 year

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Does Lemmy even have a RemindMe bot?

SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

Flat out stupidity, this comment

prole ,

OH MAN IM SO SCARED

pinkdrunkenelephants , (edited )

Oh look, found an antifascist. Yeah, you guys are way too little in number to really be able to do anything about them and you guys know it. There is over a hundred million of them armed to the teeth and a few thousand of you, tops.

Look in the thread. A lot of these motherfuckers even deny that a second civil war is starting or has been going on. They cling too closely to their narrative that it’s just hopelessly misguided brainwashed chumps committing random acts of violence instead of seeing it for what it really is: a collective act from a fascist political faction, and they cling to it because letting it go would send them down a spiral of fear because they cannot cope with the very real possibility they’ll likely die at the hands of one of those cultists unless they change their perceptions and prepare.

So what makes you think you’ll get the manpower to really stop the right? Can you convince enough left wingers that using violence against those scumfucks is okay in time? Can you convince the denialists in the thread to change their minds?

ArthurParkerhouse ,

The right seems to be blinded by the thought that the US Military would support them, but luckily the modern US military would never support any side of a civil war and would simply squash any serious attempt of a fascist rebellion. What are they even going to be able to do? They can’t shoot down drones with their AR-15s.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Actually a lot of veterans are right wingers and right wing regulatory capture is so extensive, including in the military, that some of it would, in fact, help them. But not one inch of it would help the left, in fact, all of it would only harm them under guise of keeping order like they did back in the 2020 uprising.

ArthurParkerhouse ,

They would quash any serious attempt at civil war or revolt of or between any political extreme in order to maintain the current status quo. The government and the military are both owned by the corporate class. The left is a very very small minority in the US and they don’t even have a mainstream political influence or party. The US just has the socially liberal right-of-center Democrat party and the far-right conservative Republican party.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

The right wing has succeeded at enough regulatory capture that they only stand to benefit from the military “intervening” AKA helping them.

There was a skirmish of left vs. right protesters a couple of months ago at some school board meeting. The right wingers were the clear aggressors, but the police only arrested the left wingers.

That’s what the military would actually do, accomplishing the goal of slapping down the left, all under the guise of legality and status quo.

And you’ll fall for it.

ArthurParkerhouse ,

Well, I suppose we’ll just have to disagree, but even though I find your opinions and perspectives to be mostly generalized embellishments and without nuance I still appreciate you for providing them.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Well, I find your denialism stupid, dangerous and harmful for this country too, but we’re pretending to agree to disagree so we can be sarcastic and fire emotional barbs at each other on the down low, so who am I to judge?

ArthurParkerhouse ,

Glad that you agree.

prole ,

Imagine speaking derisively about anti-fascism. That kind of makes your a fascist.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Imagine calling yourself an antifascist while refusing to acknowledge basic and obvious problems your group has that can and will be exploited by the right wing when they snap and try to kill you all next year.

Could you possibly stop being arrogant for five minutes and genuinely look at the situation objectively?

Tenesto ,

Right wing gun owners average BMI is like 40+

All the guns in the world won’t help you win a war if you can barely walk a mile without getting winded.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Has anyone ever done a study or survey on that?

BobKerman3999 ,

Didn’t some of them try to take over a cabin somewhere and they were flooded with dicks deliveries and relented?

Stern ,
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afraid_of_zombies ,

Bring it on fate. You useless fucking concept developed by village shamans

Gork ,

Not just the shamen, but the shawomen, and shachildren, too!

ininewcrow ,
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They said the same things in Germany in the 1930s

30mag ,
  1. I don’t think they did.
  2. They would have been correct as far as Germany not having a civil war. However, it was because too few opposed the Nazis, not because the country did not contain enough “psychopaths”.
asg101 ,

Yeah, it’s the second civil war starting

The first civil war never REALLY ended, just went a bit cold.

Wollang , in Nickelback, Chris Brown, and other stars scored $200 million in taxpayer funds meant to keep arts groups afloat during the pandemic. They won't say what they did with the money.

Other stars like Bonnie Raitt and Justin Bieber paid their production crews from their own pockets when the pandemic canceled their concerts, Arko noted.

Fuck me. Never thought I’d ever have even a speck of respect for Bieber, but I guess I do now.

WhatAmLemmy ,

Bieber actually turned into a surprisingly down to earth adult after being a massive douche in his teens. It was around the Comedy Central roast I started to respect him and he’s continued to come across as a genuinely good person since then. Even in candid clips.

Steeve ,

Child star goes through a douchey phase, tale as old as time

prole ,

Many of them don’t make it through.

I feel like Jason Bateman is a great example of child star who became a douche, then survived and grew out of it.

thedrivingcrooner ,
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I’m not gonna pretend like he’s doing great things and all but I also have a strong suspicion he’s got a reputation reversal PR team that controls every aspect of his social life and that’s why he’s always hanging out with the mega church pastors that wear their swimming trunks down to their ankles in public to show off their pelvic tans and have only positive news clips where he’s praying for Africa and throwing wads of cash into subway station crowds. He’s becoming the new Ellen.

Riven ,
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As long as he keeps pretending with good actions it’s a step up. I would rather him be fake and help the crews with his money than not.

Wollang ,

Well shit. It’s always nice when people grow and mature, wish it happened more often! Good for him.

iconic_admin , in Feds determine five Chinese solar panel companies have been skirting US tariffs

Good. Tariffs are stupid. They’re a tax on the people and only serve to slow adoption of green energy technologies.

BackOnMyBS , (edited )
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US is trying to move it’s manufacturing to Mexico for geopolitical reasons in the short- to medium- term and economic reasons in the long-term. Tarrifs makes things from China more expensive, so investors/developers will be more likely to find other places that make them more money, like places that dont have tarrifs and are near by.

gullible , in American Airlines sues Skiplagged, claiming cheap tickets are ‘classic bait and switch’

American Airlines has no reason not to do this. Their public image is that of an unsecured burning trash pile beside a children’s hospital. What, are people going to hate them slightly more?

agitatedpotato , in Rail whistleblowers fired for voicing safety concerns despite efforts to end practice of retaliation

Shocking that the industry who needed the government to make it illegal for their workers to strike after forcing a deal aren’t treating their workers well.

toastus , in Nickelback, Chris Brown, and other stars scored $200 million in taxpayer funds meant to keep arts groups afloat during the pandemic. They won't say what they did with the money.

Is that Chris Brown pasta not a thing around here?

Hylactor ,

Be the pasta you wish to see on the world?

toastus ,

I mean I might.

But while I enjoy to consume some nostalgic pasta from time to time I never saw myself on the producing side.

dlhextall ,

A verbal argument ensued and Chris Brown pulled the vehicle over on an unknown street, reached over Robyn F. with his right hand, opened the car door and attempted to force her out. Brown was unable to force Robyn F. out of the vehicle because she was wearing a seat belt. When he could not force her to exit, he took his right hand and shoved her head against he passenger window of the vehicle, causing an approximate one-inch raised circular contusion.

Robyn F. turned to face Brown and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand. He then drove away in the vehicle and continued to punch her in the face with his right hand while steering the vehicle with his left hand. The assault caused Robyn F.'s mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her clothing and the interior of the vehicle.

Brown looked at Robyn F. and stated, ‘I’m going to beat the shit out of you when we get home! You wait and see!’

The detective said Robyn F. then used her cell phone to call her personal assistant Jennifer Rosales, who did not answer.

Robyn F. pretended to talk to her and stated, ‘I’m on my way home. Make sure the police are there when I get there.’

After Robyn F. faked the call, Brown looked at her and stated, ‘You just did the stupidest thing ever! Now I’m really going to kill you!’

Brown resumed punching Robyn F. and she interlocked her fingers behind her head and brought her elbows forward to protect her face. She then bent over at the waist, placing her elbows and face near her lap in [an] attempt to protect her face and head from the barrage of punches being levied upon her by Brown.

Brown continued to punch Robyn F. on her left arm and hand, causing her to suffer a contusion on her left triceps (sic) that was approximately two inches in diameter and numerous contusions on her left hand.

Robyn F. then attempted to send a text message to her other personal assistant, Melissa Ford. Brown snatched the cellular telephone out of her hand and threw it out of the window onto an unknown street.

Brown continued driving and Robyn F. observed his cellular telephone sitting in his lap. She picked up the cellular telephone with her left hand and before she could make a call he placed her in a head lock with his right hand and continued to drive the vehicle with his left hand.

Brown pulled Robyn F. close to him and bit her on her left ear. She was able to feel the vehicle swerving from right to left as Brown sped away. He stopped the vehicle in front of 333 North June Street and Robyn F. turned off the car, removed the key from the ignition and sat on it.

Brown did not know what she did with the key and began punching her in the face and arms. He then placed her in a head lock positioning the front of her throat between his bicep and forearm. Brown began applying pressure to Robyn F.'s left and right carotid arteries, causing her to be unable to breathe and she began to lose consciousness.

She reached up with her left hand and began attempting to gouge his eyes in an attempt to free herself. Brown bit her left ring and middle fingers and then released her. While Brown continued to punch her, she turned around and placed her back against the passenger door. She brought her knees to her chest, placed her feet against Brown’s body and began pushing him away. Brown continued to punch her on the legs and feet, causing several contusions.

Robyn F. began screaming for help and Brown exited the vehicle and walked away. A resident in the neighborhood heard Robyn F.'s plea for help and called 911, causing a police response. An investigation was conducted and Robyn F. was issued a Domestic Violence Emergency Protective Order.

rivermonster , in Nickelback, Chris Brown, and other stars scored $200 million in taxpayer funds meant to keep arts groups afloat during the pandemic. They won't say what they did with the money.

Our local catholic private school stole $750,000 and then defaulted on it like most PPP loans. Fucking insane.

Phlogiston , in AP, other news organizations develop standards for use of artificial intelligence in newsrooms

I think the legal teams are out of control and have a vendetta against the tech because chatGPT passed the bar exam. I’m kinda sick of their blanket bans paired with “but learn to use it” BS.

This is a stupid policy statement. The tech will be used by teams just the same way autocorrect or grammar checkers are used — simply because it’ll be baked into all their editing tools within a couple of years. Similarly they’re going to keep using licensed image libraries and will transition to AI generated images as their licensed libraries transition to the tech.

ChrisLicht , in Both Parents Agree: The Child Is Being Harmed. Which One Will the Court Believe?

Jesus, this is dark.

kamenlady ,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, poor kid - whatever is happening, it’s destroying his childhood

some_guy ,

Yeah, for serious. There are so many conflicting reports and noted failures by various experts and the judge. Hard to determine how much to rely on anything anyone is saying. Poor kid.

neuropean ,

Truly one where I’m not sure if I’m better off having read it.

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