Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

@lucifargundam Well, if you sat on the toilet backwards, I suppose you could rest your elbows on the tank. That might be less awkward for one of them, but maybe more awkward for the other.

@ares @clmerle @TonyStark
The world we live in is one in which police tear gas peaceful protestors and poor people go to jail for decades for minor crimes while the wealthy get away with corruption and even insurrection. I don't think we will have recourse to the law when the shit hits the fan.
To me, it looks like it's going to turn into Rwanda but with more guns and cars.

If you chase two rabbits, you will catch neither.

Those same stupid people believe this meme is about them.

@clmerle @TonyStark @ares 5 or 10 years ago, I would have been in whole-hearted agreement with everything you just said, but now things seem a little different. Voter suppression, Gerrymandering, activist judges with lifetime appointments; we are losing the battle.They won't go for buy-backs or trade-ins. They want their guns in case they get a chance to kill one of us, and that's worth more to them than any buy-back. We've always had a backround level of gun violence, but it has spiked dramatically lately. The only thing that's changed is the far-right went further right, and Fox and other hate-media are egging them on and inciting violence. They promote Stochastic Terrorism that targets school children and defenseless civilians so that you become so disgusted by the violence that you willingly give up your guns, but they won't give up their guns. Then they will have guns and we won't, and that's not a position that I feel comfortable with. The way I see it playing out is, either we stop the hate-media from brainwashing our friends and family, or we will need guns to fight back against a genocide. I think the "good first start" we need is taking down Fox and the Murdoch empire of hate. Then restoring the Assault Weapons Ban will be a lot easier to achieve.

There's an old saying, "A sword is useless in the hands of a coward." Unfortunately, firearms don't have that feature.

@obeto We should find a way to take back the word from them.

@obeto
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
Clarence Darrow