If Israel is around in 100 years I’ll eat my shorts. They’re speedrunning being turned into a crater

I only respect Spain more for having standards.

He actually can implement temporary sanctions but afaik they also fall into another emergency power provision and I don’t know if they can override existing trade deals from congress.

As somebody in the US, same.

1. Republicans since the 60s have only ever had two ideas: invade countries and lower taxes on the rich.

2. Trump is surrounded by republicans and is a 90 yr old narcissist. He either has dementia or doesn’t give a fuck what happens

3. he has reached new levels of unpopularity due to his status as an epstein style sex predator of kids, his killing of americans in an attempt to punish ‘santuary cities’ by violating the constitution using ICE as a political tool, as well as tariff bullshit.

4. trump when in a pinch tries to do a new “newsworthy event” to reset the news cycles. Often it will be some advisor of his that has the idea. Its clear that being surrounded by republicans “invade iran” is probably a regular mantra.

5. he needed a new diversion and “invade iran” was one of the few ideas left.

The last couple mastodon updates made it easier to access the trending feed (which afaik has existed since 2021) and added features like quote posts. Bluesky starter packs and custom shareable feeds are definitely its major perks.

The odds though bluesky will get bought up by right wing billionaires in the next 10 years is almost 100% unless there’s a major change in media management laws so don’t get too attached to bluesky since there is like a nonzero chance trump jr buys it with his crypto bribes.

Hell yeah I’ll follow them on masto

Luckily most his real income is from the US government and consumers cannot impoverish this level headed and clear minded ketamine addict with their misguided purchasing decisions.

I think its mostly about WW2 and Vietnam.

Being blocked has never hurt so much.

“buy a gun” is the 1776 line. You can’t really think that offering the same exact advice as fascists is actually effective, do you?

Go ahead and block me. Imagine the kind of trite bullshit I’ll miss out on.

You never addressed my first post. You literally did a “how you train with gun without buy guy” gotcha thing then just never addressed it. You still havent addressed it, truth be told.

So again, you’re just responding to shit. Its not even new bullshit. I’m just saying the same thing over and over again in different ways. “Buy a gun” is an overprescribed oversimplified conclusion and the reason you didn’t connect it to kent state is not because it would be “boring” but because its trite “go out and vote” type bullshit.

If its a stupid platitude and you’re writing an otherwise good post about kent state, yes.

Let things be complex. You don’t need to prescribe gun ownership after fucking kent state. You don’t need to tell people to go vote, either. Its so fucking dumb.

You said the magic platitude. If somebody put “go vote” at the bottom of the kent state shooting I would also have issues.

You’re clearly just reiterating your belief in gun ownership and not addressing anything. “Buying a gun” is the tankie version of libs saying “go vote”. Solves nothing, they say it will fix everything. Might help in a very niche scenario that nobody disputes but is so ridiculously overprescribed as to be a useless platitude.

If you’re actively hunting notable fascists that’s totally different than just “buying a gun”. That is a very specific type of gun use and like the kirk shooting was somewhat tragic because the kid that shot him will be going to prison. He bartered a lot more than a few bucks for that outcome.

If like a couple dozen people started doing that the fascist movement would likely lose most its notable members in a year.

There’s 1.5 guns per person in the USA, but we also have the largest prison population per capita in the world.

I can’t name an authoritarian that started by disarming people. My guess would be there comes a point where disarming the populace happens in authoritarian process as part of “disarming the enemy”. When the enemy is the public, you disarm all of them.

So succesful authoritarians eventually just reach the point where the public is the enemy. They either get there by killing people or imprisoning them or starving them.

In the US they’re making housing unaffordable. You sell your gun to pay rent, problem solved for the wealthy. There’s much higher death rates for homeless people. There have been a number of stats that say the US has similar death rates to societies in civil wars.

If guns were used as a solution I think we’d see more sherriffs and deputies being shot during evictions.

I clearly went too far because I was satirizing your mischaracterization of other people’s arguments that you really didn’t address but said you did (powerful obama giving a medal to obama meme energy).

I’m obviously more of a syndicalist. Buying “a” gun won’t do anything meaningful in and of itself. We need some people to buy a lot of guns and ammo. Not everybody needs to buy a gun, there’s more guns than people here as it is. The gun threshold, if anything has already been reached. If it gets to the guns mattering we’ve already lost a thousand battles.

We need lots of people thinking about each other. We need people thinking about things like food, water, waste, etc. Like the US government has never caved because somebody shot a bullet at them. They cave because airports get shutdown, because trash stops being collected. The guns help if it goes further, but the step before the guns is the determinate on whether the guns will work or not.

Like a bunch of military drones come through your door you won’t even have the opportunity to kill a single fascist. You’re just dead, killed by a guy essentially playing a video game. A missile is the same thing. There’s no heroic fantasy where just owning a gun lets people takedown a fascist.

My main real issue is the one size fits all prescription. “Buy a gun” is just so overly simplistic and dumb and we more than likely have enough.

Thanks debate-me-bro so glad to have you on my side. I can’t wait for the glorius revolution where we all look at the guns on our mantles and jack off to them.

You ruined the entire post by ending it with a poorly thought out conclusion. “Buy more ovaltine” level of dumb at the end. All you have to do to change my mind is edit the ending to something not as dumb.

Yeah, I agree, you really fucked up the ending to an otherwise good post.