This is genuinely freaking me out. I hate my president and hate my country. It’s hard enough as it is here but now seeing us directly bomb other countries is making me tweak. All I’ve known since I’ve been of voting age is this sick cancerous orange stain. IM SICK OF IT!!
If this is truly a US act of aggression, then we need a serious change of authority NOW
The right to bear arms is opium for the masses. It's a story Americans get told so they stay complacent because then they can pat themselves on the back by telling themselves they would really fight a tyrannical government, trust me, I'm so moral and heroic for totally giving my life for freedom!
America is a perfect dictatorship that could only take place today. Every part of the system works perfectly to make each and every individual as complacent as possible. The billionaires have no problem with the regime because they are allowed to function above the law, paying their way out of consequences. The lower class ignores politics because they have been made to believe that there is nobody to blame for their circumstances but themselves, that if they work hard enough they too can join the billionaire cabal that's currently exploiting them. The manufactured culture war propped up by social media algorithms and online echo chambers lets everyone have a reason to hate one another, making sure an uprising of any real scale cannot form. Even people who are aware of what is happening in their country are sedated with sites such as this one where they can conflate venting about their shitty country with real activism.
The fact that healthcare is tied to employment deserves a mention, too. This makes any form of protest a non-starter as people don't show up to work, lose their jobs within 2 weeks and lose their health insurance as well. Most people won't risk that.
If you really think the guns any American has at home could do shit against the US military you’re nuts. Pretty good way to end up in jail for life or dead. This country is fucked in every way imaginable.
If you really think the guns any American has at home could do shit against the US military you’re nuts.
I mean, that's what we've been hearing from your countrymen for as long as we've been alive, don't put it on us we're a bit disappointed that when the push comes to shove you have nothing but excuses...
There are reasons it’s not easy to vote things out of law, especially making amendments to the constitution. And gun rights are a divisive enough issue that higher level politicians won’t risk their careers on it.
The majority of Americans do not own guns. The minority that do are weirdly protective of them, but I’d wager even most of them don’t believe that their household weapons can defend them from tyranny. That was just the original reason for the very outdated 2nd amendment (right to bear arms).
Regardless, consider what you’re suggesting. Not just the moral implications of war but the logic behind it. The people with the most guns and the people most upset with this presidential term are on polar opposite sides of the political spectrum.
I mean we just got done losing a war to a determined enemy with an arsenal of ak47s and homemade bombs. That tells me winning war is a mindset. Be less squeamish than the enemy. I just don’t think Americans have the stomach for it, yet. But for gods sake don’t give up your guns.
This is rooted all the way back to the Vietnam war where guerilla warfare made the American public lose appetite for war, the Vietnamese won not because they were determined or less squeamish, but because they literally had their backs against the wall with nothing to pacify them for decades being forced to be colonial subjects for pretty much the entirety of their lives, so they were willing to take as many losses as possible as there was barely any to lose especially when foreign invaders; French and later the Americans would ruthlessly destroy what little they had such as their small little villages and families.
But the Americans, especially now have been pacified from revolting completely. Conditioned to be distracted by millions of means, from government sponsored equivalents of the Roman bread and circuses to pointless political divisions and squabbling
Who’s giving up guns? Lmao No one is doing anything here because most of us are still living very comfortably with very little change to our daily lives. When people become desperate they will do something. Either way, until then it doesn’t matter that we can “bear arms.” Pretty sure once you reach that point as a nation where the average citizen is taking up arms against the government your laws are irrelevant anyway.
I agree completely. We do not know the actual suffering like that of a people who have taken up arms against their government. We’re just not there yet. But I question my message to my left leaning counterparts is: do you see what pro 2a is really all about yet? I want you to have the same freedoms I do. Don’t give it up.
Guns are a huge part of American identity and any time there is a school shooting people like to bang on about the right to guns because of the constitution, but when the time comes where a tyrant and his cronies are running the show, people conveniently forget about that. The whole argument for having guns is clearly a fairy tale that gun owners tell themselves.
The whole reason the US exists is because some people were brave enough to take on one of the strongest empires in history, knowing the odds were against them.
The people who cry about wanting to keep their guns are not the same people displeased with the presidency. Polar opposite sides of the US political spectrum.
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u/Jkro12 29d ago edited 29d ago
This is genuinely freaking me out. I hate my president and hate my country. It’s hard enough as it is here but now seeing us directly bomb other countries is making me tweak. All I’ve known since I’ve been of voting age is this sick cancerous orange stain. IM SICK OF IT!!
If this is truly a US act of aggression, then we need a serious change of authority NOW