Edit context: Hasan is calling out right-wingers for getting upset about leftists carrying guns.
Go far enough left and you get your guns back.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
― Karl Marx
Im so goddamn hot for this shit
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I watched the whole thing he said and was immediately ready to join the Philly Black Panthers. Don't worry about the fact that I'm a MidWest white lady.
You can join the white panthers. The white panthers back up the black panthers
Or maybe it's time for a new Rainbow Coalition to rise from the ashes.
I'm sure this time the FBI won't sabotage it. Surely.
It’s overdue
Is this true or is this the white power equivalent because some people got mad?
The White Panther Party is legitimate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Panther_Party
I can understand the concern at least, it's a white supremacist thing to co-opt things.
Idk about today, but the original panthers did have a solidarity org for white folks, called The White Panthers.
If you've ever heard the band, The MC5, they were in the White Panthers
The Rainbow Coalition also included an org called The Young Patriots, which was a communist group that organized white southerners and Appalachians who had migrated north to big cities
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"You want to live in a world without the need for guns, yet you use them when necessary. Curious! I am very intelligent."
Most leftists don't think all guns are always bad so I'm not sure what value they're supposedly turning on here. Pretty sure the prevailing complaint on the left is about how easy it is to acquire a firearm, not that people have them.
I support people's right to own weapons but it should be a lot harder to purchase and there should be MUCH greater punishments if the weapon you own is used in a shooting (I'm thinking parents of school shooters who poorly secured their guns)
i dont think that comment is in reference to leftists turning on an antigun stance but right wing media turning on their hardline 2nd amendment stance to vilify them for it
Ohhh, I guess I interpreted the quoted tweet as positive
It helps to have the context of the views of the speak. Hasanabi is a left guy (I had to double check this).
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I read that as Hasan questioning the MAGAt if there was any value rightoids won't forfeit since they are stereotypically very 2A and now this guy's positing as if owning guns to guard against a tyrannical government is bad.
If he was trying to criticize leftists or liberals, why'd he choose a right wing source of the news to react to?
To be fair, I don't really watch Hasan, so it's possible my interpretation is completely wrong as clarified in one of his streams.
Yeah, that's how I read it too.
The thing about reactionaries is that they think rules are for other people. It's only hypocritical if one takes them at their word, but they only care about winning points in arguments. They'll argue any position if they can twist it into sounding reasonable, and they'll steal the language of liberation from the left to do so.
Their singular principle is that entrenched power must defend itself, because they know benefits them directly. They sincerely don't care about the second amendment; they don't think it applies to everyone, only "real" Americans who look and act like white supremacists.
These people don't understand nuance. If you're against general unrestricted availability of guns, but are not against all availability of guns, you've already lost them, they'll label you as "anti-gun nut" and then be shocked if you say you own a gun, call you "out" on turning on your own convictions.
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The Second Amendment is meant for SHOOTING SCHOOLS and TODDLERS SHOOTING PARENTS NOT Protecting your Neighborhoods!
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Every protest needs to have a line of armed people standing right in front.
That, more than anything, will make ICE think twice before attacking. (Because they're pussies.)
Reminds me back in the day was browsing a socialist gun subredditt at my brother's house and my brother was shocked. He said "socialist have guns!"
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
― Karl Marx
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I have it on good authority that there are far, far more liberals and leftists armed in the USA than anyone can imagine.
The difference is when you're not an ammosexual you don't have to constantly scream and whine and cry about your guns. You just have them and know how to use them and not think about them 24/7.
Why do people think that's a leftist?
Sounds like every single american who sees masked guys in their neighborhood and hasn't turned on the news in a couple years.
Liberals don't like guns and Republicans like Ice, so who does that leave?
Lots of left leaning people have guns we just don’t make them our entire personality
I have four myself. I hate to carry one though. I'm too aware of the responsibility involved. I'd rather be beaten up than kill someone.
It leaves the regular americans who are not into political tags. You know, most of us.
History books are gonna stick people and movements into categories whether they actively espouse the labels themselves or not, but tbf not reading history books because "we're not like those other countries" is about as American as it gets, so rock on
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I don't like guns. But if you got 'em, use 'em.
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I'm not a big fan of guns. But fuck these losers for having a problem with people displaying their guns. Suck a donkey dick ya pussies.
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The fact that they said "leftists" instead of "liberals" made me think they weren't a right-winger.
Even liberals call most leftists liberals...
I got more context from the thread.
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You're not a hypocrite for following the current law and also wanting to change the same law.
One opinion is about what an individual's best choice is, given the situation.
The other is about what laws would be best for a society to have.
What's best for an individual is not always the same as what's best for a group or society.
Real leftism has always been pro-gun. This liberal anti-gun nonsense is childish.
Its not childish. In fact the Democrat leaders that push for it are the same ones trying to betray the american people at every turn. Which makes it a Republican Tactic to keep Democrat voters defenSeless and further more to make them think it is their own idea to be defenseless.
Its a wild and crazy mentality to have, I know, and yet here we are in a world where Republicans dont want Democrats to have protection from them and Democrats also dont want Democrats to have protections from Republicans.
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The problem that we frequently run into is people who only want what's best for them at the cost of society, while still wanting full benefits of being a member of said society.
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"Oh my god! You hypocrite! You are not supposed to fight back! You have morals remember?!?"
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