Political Memes

I'd argue the US does not have a leftist party. When I was young, we had a centrist party and a right party. I've watched in my lifetime the right decide to go further right, and the centrist party go right to chase some purported 'balance'. (This was all Bush/Obama era, before Trump/MAGA entered the game)

We do not have a leftist party. We have the right and extreme right parties. And we only have two because of a mathematical flaw in the iterated first past the post electoral system.

And we might not even have two parties. The DNC and RNC have so many overlapping funding sources and so many behind the scenes organization that they could be seen as two divisions of the same team. Even if no explicit link can be found, despite the theater the two organizations have a healthy symbiotic relationship - each preferring the devil they know over any third party upset.

With all of the above, many intelligent people have checked out - the marginal benefit of supporting the D's over the R's just doesn't justify propping up a system that is fundamentally broken at it's core.

(P. S. I personally don't agree with that conclusion and will swallow my pride to vote for the best available candidate, but I think painting the people that don't agree as wholesale fools is a very unhelpful way of framing things.)

The Center pursues stricter gun control. The Left isn't opposed to gun control in theory but they encourage people to buy assault rifles and share 'Under No Pretext" memes.

(“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary” ― Karl Marx)

The left pursues stricter gun control.

I’m not opposed to gun control but take a look at Canada at the moment, one mass shooting from an individual who did not have a license to posses or acquire firearms to begin with and the government goes and targets sport shooters and hunters who do have the appropriate licenses? It’s been 5 years and it’s clear they’re removing all semi-automatic rifles from licensed individuals private possession, calling them “assault rifles”.

If I had a conversation with the Public Safety Minister it would go a little like this; If these are Assault Rifles that belong in the military, why aren’t we suppling our troops with these rifles then, why did NATO reject sending these firearms to Ukraine, why did Bill C-17 not prevent these firearms from entering the market for the last 30 years?

I’m skeptical of the idea that this can mostly be boiled down to mental health (or at least that mental health reform alone is a valid fix) and not social issues. Mental health is certainly a component, but if we actually listen to psychologists they’ve been saying that the massive amount of news around shootings makes further shootings more likely. There’s also no diagnosis or mental illness attributable to the majority of mass shooters to treat to begin with.

Using the Kirk shooter as an example, according to his friends he was incredibly deep into channer-style irony poisoning. What is therapy supposed to do to fix that? You can’t therapy someone into better mental health if they don’t want it.

Not trying to jump down your throat or anything, this is just one of my regular soap boxes.

The APA has repeatedly claimed that mental health is not a major factor in mass shootings.

I don't think "mental healthcare" is a silver bullet (pun intended) to fix the problems. That's not going to fix the consolidation of power and wealth. That's not going to get people shorter work weeks, and more quality time with friends and family. That's not going to break up the media megaliths that profit from anger inducing feeds.

Health care will help, but the problem is conservatism and it's shitty brother capitalism.

Like anyone will rise up against the fascists. Most of the gun enthusiasts are siding with them.

Closer to 97 iirc

More specifically Christian Nationalists.

I mean, tbh, we have over 600,000,000 guns and trillions of rounds of ammo in ~45% of the pop's hands, no registry to know who/where those are, and at those numbers we're a larger "force" (no organization) with more guns and ammo than most of the world's militaries combined (and larger/more than ours "alone," well, combined with our police actually). Sure they have the fancy toys, but..

You'd have to go door by door and search literally every house AND somehow make sure the people to be searched don't stash shit before you get there with someone who has been searched, and you'd have to get them all (not miss one hidden in floorboards), AND you'd have to restrict home depot purchases going forward, AND somehow not get smoked by a "cold dead fingers" ass motherfucker, all so we can make sure our totally not fascist government is the only one possessing arms.

Good fucking luck. Even if someone could which is a big if, idk if they should considering that last bit.

That's going to be the norm for this administration. The only thing that "matters" is the very first thing to be said. All the media blindly run with it and the Reich wing media won't do a correction later on if it's proven to be otherwise.

America has a pretty impressive social firewall around it, we don't get to see what its like in other countries. The average median American voter believes countries like Sweden and Norway are nations of unpopulated wilderness with old-fashioned, quaint villages where people wear silly hats and bake nice desserts for tourists.

Nah, every school shooter have been defaulting as Muslim since forever and more recently trans, until it was found that, once again, it's a cis white boy.

We got a hint of that with the Mormons. And the right always chooses to believe any shooter is trans so....

We will probably see a few more assassinations until people start shooting up protests.

As an American...

I would love to. Please get me the fuck out of here!

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