• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    As I said, guns cannot protect one from Fox News.

    In other words, we are taught, from childhood, to resist classic tyranny, like a British King, or external propaganda like Nazism. That’s gun culture: people ready to tell foreign soldiers stepping foot on their home exactly how they feel, from the end of a barrel. A sort of ‘people’s militia’ is the fantasy, and part of our history.

    It’s so engrained that I think it blinds people to internal propaganda, and surpresses critical thinking. And that was kinda OK for awhile, but now it’s gotten out of hand and, well…