• @[email protected]
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    322 months ago

    The alarms have kinda been sounding since Trump declared his candidacy. I can only hope the FBI et al. are doing their jobs and preparing to counter insurrection, and that the National Guard are on alert.

    • @SirDerpy
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      I hope that law enforcement is protecting me.

      If you’re rich then you’re well protected. If not, buy a gun for self defense.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 months ago

        That’s a poor paraphrasing of what I said. I’m not going to the capital with a gun. All I need is a safe transfer of power to the duly elected president.

        • @SirDerpy
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          -72 months ago

          To the capital? No need. The threats already at my door.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            You’ve got some kind of agenda here and I don’t even know if I agree with it or not, but it has nothing to do with what I said here.

            • @SirDerpy
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              The FBI isn’t protecting you from shit because you’re poor like the rest of us. Buy a gun for self defense.

              Not understanding is a choice you’ve made. I’m fine with your choice. But, pretending it’s a failure to communicate on my part is the sort of gaslighting that’ll alienate many, online and IRL.

              • @[email protected]
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                42 months ago

                I don’t think it’s a failure to communicate. I think it’s a case of you injecting your agenda where it doesn’t apply because you want a soapbox to stand on. That is off-putting and alienating. Chime in with your spiel when it’s appropriate to the context. Police protecting me has nothing to do with presidential succession and it’s weird to bring it up in that context.

                In another context I might well agree with you, but right now it feels like an attempt to redirect to make this about your agenda. You don’t need me for that.

                • @SirDerpy
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                  I see. Anything you don’t like is an “agenda” warranting ad hominem.

            • @SirDerpy
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              No, neoliberal minimization.

              • Todd Bonzalez
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                The concept of neoliberal minimization is at your doorstep and you need a gun to defend yourself from it? Lmao.

      • @Doomsider
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        22 months ago

        Found the gun manufacturer!

  • @_lilith
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    142 months ago

    Because more people now consider politically motivated violence acceptable. That’s the whole story.

  • @[email protected]
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    112 months ago

    I’m skipping this one because I don’t need to be made depressed about the situation and I absolutely agree that we’re lined up to experience domestic-terrorism.

  • @barsquid
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    72 months ago

    Is it because right-wing terrorists are increasingly radicalized every year?

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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      22 months ago

      Can’t even tell what it is on my screen, a nun doing coke off a manila envelope?

  • @Treczoks
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    22 months ago

    If you ever needed a reason that Americans should not own guns…