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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So MAGA, let's check the scoreboard:

  • America First - yeah, NO.
  • Release the Epstein Files - Who?
  • Lower prices on day one - tariffs are more important
  • 2A Champion - Only for who they choose.

So what are you still in for? The voracious Corruption? The Pedophilia? The virtuosic incompetence? The sending Americans to die in another endless foreign war to make oil companies wealthy? Paramilitary Death Squads having spontaneous firing squads in the streets?

This is what you voted for. Is this the free America you envisioned?

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

And everyone of them will say to you completely honestly, "it's a freer America than if I had voted for a Democrat."

At this point it's tribalism. Anyone who still supports Trump and the Republicans will always support them. Being Republican is part of their identity, it's the identity they share with their family, friends and coworkers. It's the identity of their community. They're not going to walk away from all that just because one irresponsible ICE agent killed one guy in a democratic city. They can't, they'd be walking away from everything they've known. Like their football team, they'll cheer their team on no matter what because it's their team. Simple as that.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let me translate this:

You (the Outgroup, meaning leftists) can't have guns. If You (the Outgroup) does this, We (the ingroup, the right) will kill you. You have no rights, We have no restrictions.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Cool, cool, see you in the rice fields then.

[–] sh00g@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago
[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we hold ICE protests in schools every day then the feds will work to keep guns out of schools?

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

YOU can't have guns. THEY can have guns.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not true. Rich people can always have guns.

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[–] Feedback17@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The stupidity of right wing people who aren't rich never ceases to amaze me.

You've heard of "a rising tide raises all ships", right?

These clowns honestly think "sinking undesirable ships raises the seafloor", and much prefer that methodology even if the gains are marginal.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

oh, but they will all be billionaires one day!

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

And you’re still saying you don’t have a king ruling over you , America?

He really shit all over your second amendment rights there. Wiped his royal butt with it.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

"Gun control" will continue to be a means of controlling undesirables while the fash base is still supported.

These current attacks are a good example. They're attacking protesters in non-fashy areas. They'll find similar ways of controlling guns for themselves.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Guys... what is happening to your country?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago

Not even sure if it's "my country" anymore

Rich white conservative men have stolen it, now I'm just a "subject" I guess... lol 🫠

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

Unchecked fascism. Beware.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

it looks like the start of a civil war. i hope it doesn't come to that, but it really looks like that's where it's headed.

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we keep society together and martial law isn't declared before midterms then we might be good. We might go to sweep them without a civil war. But should martial law be declared or we don't get the midterms for whatever reason......

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then it'll fracture along state lines, ie states that have the wherewithal to stand up against the feds. Which if they don't organize among themselves will be ... California. Maybe New York. And the little ones will be steamrolled. Although I'd guess the purple states that insist on more autonomy and are more difficult to police (AZ, Colorado, Montana, Utah) will just sort of fly under the radar.

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[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 107 points 1 day ago

“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.

“Take the guns first, go through due process second,”

  • Donald J Trump, Feb 28, 2018

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 120 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The NRA is frantically running the numbers to see what will increase public fear, and thus sales figures for the gun companies, the most.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

something something FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Cleaned my rifles over the weekend, they're cycling great now.

[–] nicgentile@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (11 children)

In a twisted way, Trump is inadvertently trying hard to prove that more guns in the hands of untrained people with no background checks are a bad idea, something NRA was hoping to keep down. The cat is out of the bag now.

Anyway, fight girls.

[–] poopsmith@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They will whinge about this for a few days before he finds some shiny thing to distract them with.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 75 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Quick question...

Did they take the gun from the 34x convicted felon?

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Why does he need a gun when he has an entire army and nukes? Apparently if you're a felon you can't have a pistol but it's no issue being in charge of the most powerful army in the world and one of the biggest nuclear arsenals.

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump is an east-coast elite real-estate lich, he doesn't give a shit about guns at all. He's always just paid people to carry them for him. Literally, he's the consummate cartoon fatcat. That's why he has zero qualms saying over and over he wants to take them or restrict them, he's not a constitution thumping conservative, he's just an old parody.

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[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 days ago (10 children)

It's a fun take, and Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber, so let me enlighten you all on how that would kind of go:

The MAGA crowd is a combination of idiocy, brain damage, and then dark tetrad people.

They don't care if their cult leader is hypocritical, they'll defend everything he says, even if it hurts their own interests; they'll cherry pick, gaslight, and deny basic facts.

When you see them from a point of clinical detachment, their behavior makes a kind of twisted sense. The mistake is the assumption that they're just like you, and can be reasoned with or moved using empathy. Their worldview is fundamentally different, and typically only changes via direct experience: "leopards ate my face". Sometimes not even then.

It's downright infuriating at times because it reminds me of that antisemitism quote:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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[–] Zamotic@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago

I really think you all aren't properly focusing on the word "you" here. By "you" he means "not them"... So he essentially is saying "You libtards can't have guns, because us Maga-idiots will shoot you if you do".

A federal agent did not kill a civilian. A Confederate soldier killed an American citizen.

[–] housedogpartyfavor@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

he’s gonna start missing having CNN and NBC News in the press pool if he keeps this up.

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