There are a lot of liberal and leftist gun owners, they just don’t wear them as identity or gender affirming care.
“How do you know if your conservative neighbor bought a new gun?” “Don’t worry he’ll tell you.”
But more broadly, yes we’ve let the right RUIN the very principles that we could have held onto and come out on top. If we kept guns and the American flag we wouldn’t be in a fascist state right now. I’m not even kidding. We gave them nationalism AND the tools to keep it.
Fucking soft-ass whinging lefties are still circling around issues of principle when we’re literally losing the entire country. “Oh no, that guy said the R word once! We should make 48-minute essay pieces on youtube calling out their bad behavior while flying the flags of our own particular ethnicity or identity as we retreat to Discord to get emotional comfort from our niche group of parasocial clingers who will never actually challenge us!”
I am fully aware this is going to piss off some Lemmy users who read it and they will obtusely think that I’m anti-pride or saying that we should use slurs. I’m not saying that (but thank you for proving my point). I’m saying we fixated on the wrong problems instead of attacking the right with actual populist ideas that would have also had a measure of help with issues of equality and human rights. We allowed the right to make it a “bad guys versus good guys” fight when we could have made it a “They’re hurting us all, we all deserve better” fight. We have misjudged with great naivety just how uninvolved and uncaring the average American is about issues outside of their immediate lives, We have tripped up BADLY because our idealism had no wiles or strategy. I guess it was all worthwhile if you can be the most ideologically pure leftist in the camps.
There are a lot of liberal and leftist gun owners, they just don’t wear them as identity or gender affirming care.
“How do you know if your conservative neighbor bought a new gun?” “Don’t worry he’ll tell you.”
But more broadly, yes we’ve let the right RUIN the very principles that we could have held onto and come out on top. If we kept guns and the American flag we wouldn’t be in a fascist state right now. I’m not even kidding. We gave them nationalism AND the tools to keep it.
Fucking soft-ass whinging lefties are still circling around issues of principle when we’re literally losing the entire country. “Oh no, that guy said the R word once! We should make 48-minute essay pieces on youtube calling out their bad behavior while flying the flags of our own particular ethnicity or identity as we retreat to Discord to get emotional comfort from our niche group of parasocial clingers who will never actually challenge us!”
I am fully aware this is going to piss off some Lemmy users who read it and they will obtusely think that I’m anti-pride or saying that we should use slurs. I’m not saying that (but thank you for proving my point). I’m saying we fixated on the wrong problems instead of attacking the right with actual populist ideas that would have also had a measure of help with issues of equality and human rights. We allowed the right to make it a “bad guys versus good guys” fight when we could have made it a “They’re hurting us all, we all deserve better” fight. We have misjudged with great naivety just how uninvolved and uncaring the average American is about issues outside of their immediate lives, We have tripped up BADLY because our idealism had no wiles or strategy. I guess it was all worthwhile if you can be the most ideologically pure leftist in the camps.