A fellow student!

Right, but the opposite isn’t true, the military isn’t full of ICE agents.

IME most still do.

IMO, we should all move back to Lynx and phpBB forums.

Fast, secure, lightweight, search & archivable. I’m only half joking.

I appreciate that your news sources don’t try to sugar coat his incoherent rambling.

I wish domestic American news sources would be so honest.

I’m most worried about magat goon squads in lifted F250s rolling up in my inclusive small blue city neighborhood in a sea of red. Which I assure you I’ll “do shit” about. But if you have some brilliant tactical plan feel free to lead the charge.

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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Summary of this thread: hey literally nazis are taking power and planning on putting marginalized groups into camps eventually, but also wanting a gun makes you a pussy you fucking degenerate just talk it out

Ok, but that has nothing to do with putting the seat down or leaving it up.

We’re all familiar with the tropes about finding happiness in poverty but “living wage” is an actual thing that can be calculated.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/

In my area, one of the cheaper ones in the nation, you need to make about $22/hr as a single person to cover food/rent/utilities/insurance/etc.

If you want to debate the merits of “bagging groceries” as a long term job or how much one needs to have to be happy that’s a different discussion but it’s pretty clear what people need to be paid in order to survive.

The ruling/owner class has waged a decades-long war to undo the forward momentum of the New Deal.

There’s plenty of blame to go around, but most of it belongs to generational wealth and the “haves” not the average person brainwashed by poorly funded and heavily propagandized public education.

Every accusation really is an admission of guilt with these people. They’re that uncreative and boring, all they can do state what’s happening and blame it on their perceived enemies.

An entire country of astronomy nerds sounds like a tourist destination to me!

Just eat less avocado toast and then you too can have an $80k lifted 4x4 you only use to commute back and forth to work.

Instead of helping vulnerable people they instead decided to let the Sacklers and Eli-Lillys promote hardcore opiates to doctors and patients while claiming they were safe and harmless; feeding the very same drug war machine that leads to a presumably innocent boat to be blasted out of the water and finished off an entire hour later.

It’s rotten to the core.

How many 0’s are in his bank account?

Yeah, he ripped that guy off.

Information wants to be free.

You mean Chiraq? Hell it’s such a lawless hellhole up there they should glass it just to get rid of the libtards. That’s what Sean Hannity told me anyway.

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.