i.e. it's an institution of white supremacy.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
All aboard the chutzpah express: GOP rips Obama after Dallas shooting
Worth reading if only for Ben Carson Ben Carsoning it up.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 July 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
If we are weak at home, we are weak around the world and this is an example of a weakness when our president goes overseas and has a terrible tragedy like this is an idea why we've got to solve ourself.
cool story bro
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
"I think all of us in public life, the president included, should reexamine everything we’ve said, everything we’ve done up to this point to see if in our public discourse we’ve contributed in any way," Rubio told reporters in Washington, adding, "I think all of us need to reexamine constantly in this country and whether it contributes to the nation moving forward or whether sometimes we're unnecessarily pitting people against each other. And I hold myself to that standard as well."
Yeah, Obama, I'm looking at you, you Divider in Chief.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 July 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
why in god's name does anyone in the press interview ben carson for anything? he's a retired neurosurgeon with no political experience or expertise who mounted an unsuccessful campaign for president. leave him alone.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
god forbid obama be out of the country when anything happens. wouldn't want our heads of state go to other countries for any reason ever.
fuck these people.
xpost Because he's an adult who entertainingly answers questions like a precocious four-year-old who watches the news with his parents?
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
our democracy is totally fucked.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
if they go this ham on obama, whose every word is measured to the utmost, imagine what they will say with hillary clinton, who is much more ham-fisted and less articulate, in office. oy.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
"All those protesters last night, they turned around and ran the other way expecting the men and women in blue to protect them. What hypocrites!" an audibly emotional Patrick said.
this is a perfect example of the kind of gut-level, nonrational response to things that seems to govern the right-wing mindset. it makes a kind of brute emotional sense, and it helps consolidate a vision of us-vs.-them, so let's just go with it.
it's also an example of the precise sort of thinking that people with authority are supposed to resist and dispel.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
It's also a crazy "us vs. them" because it assumes that BLM protestors are all agitators, are all anti-cop, and in reality most of them are people just like my neighbors, peaceful people, active in their community, church-goers and the like, just looking for some way to stop the violence.
― this is a salad for the BALSAMIC REVIVAL (Dan Peterson), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
So goddamned sick of the reflexive IF YOU BAN FIREARMS CRIMINALS WILL JUST GET THEM ILLEGALLY argument. Where do these morons think illegally-obtained weapons come from, the Illegal Gun Fairy? The only reason they're "readily" available is because they're either bought legally, moved across state lines and resold; stolen in shipping; or stolen from "law-abiding gun owners'" cars, homes and purses, for the most part. Dry up those three areas of supply and the market for "illegal guns" would become much less prolific.
(I say "readily" in scare quotes because most people don't need to go to the trouble, whatever gun they need usually being available at Wal-Mart, Dicks Sporting Goods or a local dealer; and if they were somehow not able to buy what they wanted there, the average person would have no idea who to go to to get one illegally.)
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Friday, 8 July 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
new inquiry runs a critical history of the AR-15
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/recoil-operation/
― goole, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
This week in Responsible Gun Ownership, local meth-head runs stop sign, crashes into woman's car, pushes her into intersection, exits his own vehicle and shoots her dead with a rifle.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/08/twinsburg_woman_identified_as.html
http://www.cleveland.com/solon/index.ssf/2016/08/solon_police_identify_man_char.html
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
http://www.pressunion.org/2016-toddler-now-shot-person-every-week-us-two-years-straight/
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
I saw that yesterday and was thinking of posting it to the "I am considering buying a gun" thread but couldn't find it
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
So crazy it reads like straight satire.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link
I am considering buying a toddler a gun.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure there's someone out there batshit insane enough to argue that maybe toddlers are the real problem.
― DJ Untz Hall (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
How often do dogs shoot people?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Mind you, in America, they do
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/3d-print-a-serial-free-handgun-at-home-with-the-latest-ghost-gunner-update/
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 00:48 (six years ago) link
tbf the second amendment says NOTHING about bench top machine tools
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
the founding fathers knew 3D printed guns were coming and wanted everyone in the future to know that the second amendment is not to be modified or reinterpreted NO MATTER WHAT.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 02:19 (six years ago) link
Shakey, you've got a friend:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/guns-second-amendment-nra.html
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
there's a truck parked here with a decal on the back window of an AR-15 superimposed onto an American flagalso a bumper sticker that says "REGISTER LIBERALS"
this fucker should be pulled over every day of his life
― brimstead, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
This circular appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer yesterday. Right next to the comics section insert.
https://i.imgur.com/lbdC88W.jpg
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 27 October 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
Those suckers are pricey. It's funny in a way what a bourgeois pursuit it is, all the "working class redneck" stereotypes notwithstanding.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 27 October 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
Hey, you sell enough Oxy . . .
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 27 October 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html
― Lee626, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
https://www.breakingviews.com/considered-view/exclusive-fedex-drops-nra-deal-by-snail-mail/
― sleeve, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
I'd like it to become a liberal talking point that the need to own more than, say, five guns is a sign of mental illness.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
long way to go
if your gun discourse doesn’t start and end with the fact that the most marginalized of us all should be armed then i’m tuning out lol. gun ownership as revolutionary praxis is where it’s at.— diasporic shawty 🅴 (@cybermarxisttt) June 14, 2019
― groovemaaan, Saturday, 22 June 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
dumbassery doesn't discriminate
― k3vin k., Saturday, 22 June 2019 04:21 (four years ago) link
all the twitter marxist kids are v into that kinda take right now
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 22 June 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
https://socialistra.org/
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Saturday, 22 June 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, June 22, 2019 12:38 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as someone who has recently entered his thirties I can condescendingly say that “I get it”
― k3vin k., Saturday, 22 June 2019 05:03 (four years ago) link
If they were equally armed, I'd put my money on Twitter marxists to win a civil war vs alt-right maga chuds
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 22 June 2019 05:04 (four years ago) link
guns vs. nuclear weapons on drones, wonder who will win
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 22 June 2019 07:17 (four years ago) link
For the majority of lefty gun ppl it's not about "winning", it's about not disarming if cops won't.
― Simon H., Saturday, 22 June 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link
it's the position that serves gun companies the best, so there's at least one winner
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 22 June 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
yup lol
― k3vin k., Saturday, 22 June 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
"it's about not disarming if cops won't" is basically indistinguishable from the right-wing case for private citizens owning guns (except their version is "it's about not disarming if the government won't")
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 22 June 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
at my brother's house while his fam is on vacation, feeling a certain kind of way about a certain kind of amendment
had to clear out the downstairs guest room for myself, clear it of what you may ask? fucking ammunition is what, so much fucking ammunition, boxes filled with boxes full of bullets (that redundancy is not a typo), literal kegs of shotgun shells, i pick up a shoebox and bullets spill out, i take a mug down from a shelf and it's brimming with bullets
and rifle scopes, and tripods, and nra-branded rifle bags, and heaps of stinking camo clothing, body armor, game bags
"game", ugh
and i pile it all onto the piles of the same shit that fill up the rest of the basement
i've probably handled tens of thousands of dollars' worth of this trash in the past couple days and i feel dirty
i go to wash my hands and bullets pour out of the faucet
i look around and realize i'm in a log cabin made of bazookas
repeal the second amendment
― bule bulak oying (cat), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
some of us take our childhood trauma and turn it inward upon ourselves and some of us buy barrels of ammo i guess
― bule bulak oying (cat), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
yikes! i guess he goes hunting a lot? or the firing range?
or maybe he wants to murder us all!? *ducks*
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
he wants to finally feel safe, and i also want to finally feel safe, and the ways in which we try to make ourselves feel safe are exactly opposite, and did i mention that his house stinks? the whole place smells like ass and dead things. i go out to the porch for fresh air and it smells like rotting meat because there are jars full of squirrel tails lined up on the rafters.
and there's this, it's like there's, my brain isn't putting it together right but all this killing equipment is haunted. cursed. i keep feeling like it isn't far off from mountains of child porn.
― bule bulak oying (cat), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
Would be pretty funny if all he had was ammo but no guns.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
if i felt like opening up any of the many gun cases, storage lockers, etc., i doubt i would be met with a cloud of butterflies
― bule bulak oying (cat), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
but that would be pretty funny