Buying into antigun rhetoric is one of the biggest missteps “the left” has made in recent decades.

We have an authoritarian fascist state coalescing as we speak and there are still leftists advocating gun control. It’s a losing argument in the U.S. right now. I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.

The shadowy cabals the rightwing says are behind everything is classic projection again, they’re controlled by shadowy cabals of rich people. One of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It’s really impossible to overstate how bad these people are and they’re winning.

The coup was successful, they’re in power and if they don’t want to give it up they won’t.

Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Establish secondary lines of communication and start preparing.

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What actions are you referring to? I appreciate Steams contributions to the Linux ecosystem but that’s about it, and even that is completely self serving. Locking everything on their platform behind DRM? Taking a 30% cut of everything sold after monopolizing the PC gaming market?

He’s a big proponent of microtransactions and was one of the first to introduce lootcrate mechanics for skins. Skins that you can buy/sell with real cash off-site. There’s a billion dollar online casino ecosystem where you use skins as chips to play games that’s basically targeted at kids. Valve is completely aware of it and it breaks their ToS but they profit greatly so they look the other way and continue to push shitty scratch off ticket loot boxes to kids. There really is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.

Unless you know about some great philanthropic work he’s doing?

I understand and don’t necessarily disagree with any of that but let’s not pretend GabeN is anything other than another greedy billionaire.

And they purposely target kids with addictive loot crate mechanics and look the otherway while loot/skins are sold on 3rd party sites.

Maybe GabeN really needs a 7th yacht but maybe he’s just a greedy bastard who wants all the money.

Even if its displayed it’s not tracked here, and with federation even if it were tracked it’d be useless/out of date.

It’s even more meaningless than the other site and every time I see someone talking about it I want to tell them to go back there if internet points mean so much.

I would trust an impoverished juggalo with the concept of family over the current situation.

“And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist. Motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.”

As someone who was an adult when it came out but didn’t see it until years later.

It’s an adequate live-action adaptation of a classic piece of animation. With Christmas coming up you should probably go ahead and give it a watch, if for no other reason than to say you did.

I prefer Jims acting and the roles he’s chosen, but Adam seems like he’s probably a nicer person.

And the existence of charged particles is really just physics so in a way sex is really about math.

I feel like most people just want to pick one and stick to it; stop changing it back and forth every other season, my body will adjust to the changing days just fine on its own.

They somehow successfully rebranded. Boomer might be a slur now but it wasn’t always.

I feel like The Me Generation was a better name anyway, selfish pricks.

Now with Vitamin R

Less “he gives people stuff” and more “he exploits peoples desperation for views.”

NOBODY likes politicians.

Pol·i·tics /ˈpäləˌtiks/: from the Latin poly- meaning many; and -tics, meaning blood sucking parasites.

We should string up the billionaire families that created and profited from the opiate epidemic, we agree on this.

I actually saw some of those guys yesterday! I my situation they were escorting/ushering two pro-Israel counter protesters. I didn’t notice anything like that last time. I also noticed several guys masked up and in gloves ready for battle, a few in helmets that were definitely cops or very serious protesters.

Most of them are “studio gangsters” who tell imaginary stories they just make up.

Snoop has always been extremely tactical in his decisions and statements. His image is carefully crafted and maintained and i agree with you 100%

This was kind of funny though.