Cory Doctorow put it more eloquently in Pluralistic: Predicting the present:
And while Americans shoot people they’ve only just gotten angry at, they also sometimes plan shooting sprees and kill a bunch of people because they’re just generically angry. Being angry about the state of the world is a completely relatable emotion, of course, but the targets of these shootings are arbitrary. Sure sometimes these killings have clear, bigoted targets – mass shootings at Black supermarkets or mosques or synagogues or gay bars – more often the people who get sprayed with bullets (at country and western concerts or elementary schools or movie theaters) are almost certainly not the people the gunman (almost always a man) is angry at.
One day, as I was swimming in the community pool across the street – a critical part of my pain management strategy – I was struck with a thought: “Why don’t these people murder health insurance executives?” Not that I wanted them to. I don’t want anyone to kill anyone. But why do American men who murder their wives and the people who cut them off in traffic and random classrooms full of children leave the health insurance industry alone? This is an industry that is practically designed to fill the people who interact with it with uncontrollable rage. I mean, if you’re watching your wife or your kid die before your eyes because some millionaire CEO decided to aim for a $10 billion stock buyback this year instead of his customary $9 billion target, wouldn’t you feel that kind of murderous rage?
But the assassination of Brian Thompson is a wake-up call, a warning that if we don’t solve this problem politically, we may not have a choice about whether it’s solved with violence. As a character in “Radicalized” says, “They say violence never solves anything, but to quote The Onion: that’s only true so long as you ignore all of human history”.
The gun people were always more scared of brown people than theywere in love with the Constitution. All anyone needs to do to violate the Constitution with impunity is go along with hating brown people and the simple little 2A people think they’re on the same team.
I find it hilarious that Clinton got impeached in 1998 for getting a blowjob (and votes were 50/50!) when compared to this shit show and nobody has even thought of doing anything to stop it.
Because the gun nuts are on the “same side” as the fascists.
They’re just too stupid to understand that the fascists will come to take their guns eventually. They never want anyone to be able to challenge their power.
If the internet somehow went down completely… would people handpaint greentext on cave walls? Will we send paper airplane soyjaks from tribe to tribe? There’s something here about pattern matching, pavlovian conditioning, the structure of communication… for some reason I want to associate it with the “presentation” of a meal?
The way you know a plate of fine dining would be small and savory, consumed carefully and thoughtfully… but if you see a basket with big red and white checkered paper, you think it’s about to be a delicious heart attack that you know you’ll eat way too fast?
Anyway, thanks for coming to my pointless TED ramble
Wait 4chan is back up?
took them a bit, but its back yeah. i think they removed the board that the attack was executed threw though
Apparently it’s on Lemmy now.
Inb4: iT Is nOt aLl Of Us
get your greentexts, hot and fresh :D
You know that bullshit gets tired.
People acting like the armed left isn’t preparing.
Like, motherfuckers, the loud 2a advocates were all right wing. The motherfuckers this fake motherfucker is whining about are the ones backing this shit.
But, more important, why does every motherfucker shooting their mouth off about this think that you win a fucking civil war by just going out and shooting things? Like, does nobody get that attacks need useful intelligence, planning, logistics, transportation, and it can’t be out in the open, you gotta either fight it guerilla, or you’re just dead.
People are fucking morons.
People are fucking morons
Your lips to Gods ears
Don’t want to be stupid but wouldn’t be a good idea for (at least a portion) of the armed left to move to Canada? Like that, not only would they be able to operate more openly but would also be able to start laying the groundwork for a possible insurgency that would be activated if Trump annexes Canada. Then, many more people could be potentially required (i.e. Canadians) and would be able to destroy the regime.
lmao I’d move to canada in a heartbeat, but canada inexplicably
I’m an assholedoesn’t seem to want to let me in :(Well, that might be useful if Canada lets them in, lets them stay, and lets them both stay armed and arm up with the more aggressive tools of conflict. I don’t exactly see that happening though
At some point, not far away, the people who have guns will run out of food before they run out of ammo. The morons will work with the tools they have.
People acting like the armed left isn’t preparing.
Citation needed.
But, more important, why does every motherfucker shooting their mouth off about this think that you win a fucking civil war by just going out and shooting things? Like, does nobody get that attacks need useful intelligence, planning, logistics, transportation, and it can’t be out in the open, you gotta either fight it guerilla, or you’re just dead.
Exactly the point of everyone who ever pointed out that your guns are completely useless if your government ever goes off the rails.
Citation needed? Nice try CIA I ain’t no snitch.
I won’t believe the left is actually seriously preparing until I start seeing some Onion links around. We’re probably on a list just for using Lemmy, which is notoriously leftist, and talking about this stuff publicly, unveiled, with a registered account is honestly below Hegseth level OPSEC
After what happened to Fred Hampton, I doubt the armed left are going to pop their heads up publicly unless they’re ready to do something and know they’re not going to get whacked immediately.
Sorry, I forgot they were supposed to provide you personally with a detailed overview of their plans on a public forum lmao
I wasn’t the one who used the “the armed left is preparing” argument in a public forum. I just consider it a stupid argument to use if there isn’t any evidence that that is happening.
Spotted the bootlicker.
You know that words mean things and you can’t just use them randomly because you don’t like what someone said
Asking for evidence of illegal activity is totally not what a spook would do, right?
If you’re worried that posting more than “nuh uh” publicly would negatively impact your ability to take action, then you’re in a position where you aren’t safe posting anything about it. Not even your little “nuh uh”.
Either stop LARPing (because you aren’t part of any organizing), stop making yourself more vulnerable by posting shit like this (because you are part of something and being stupid posting this shit), or just save some time and turn yourself in because you’ve already fucked up.
I have too much to lose to do anything drastic, but you all would be well served to do some serious learning about how criminals and hackers get caught, and how to protect yourself with proper opsec.
Yeah, someone not believing the notion that the “armed left” is about to stage their insurrection is totally a ciamossadfbi spook. Maybe I am the spook and maybe you really have detailed information on when and where the United People’s Liberation Army of the Free and Democratic Republic of, I dunno, Eastern Minnesota will finally make their stand!
Or maybe, everyone on this God damn platform is just LARPing.
To quote some German songwriter: “Du hast Angst, dass sie dich töten, weil du einfach zu viel weißt. Ich hab Angst, dass du dir glaubst, dass du im Ernst so wichtig seist.”
Well, the other side of it is that it doesn’t matter how good your planning and logistics are if you only have rocks to throw when you get there
Nobody with a lick of sense ever said that a civil war against an established and well equipped government was going to be fought on battlefields, lined up and infantry vs civilian infantry.
And it takes more than guns, as the Iraqis and Afghanis showed. But calling guns useless in a revolution or civil war, much less as a resistance or insurgency is just stupid.
I feel like it’d have to be a lot like Vietnam, with vets communicating 1 on 1 with soldiers, convincing them not to side with the government (trump has marginalized vets, after all). A military coup would be the best case scenario here. You convert his military, you remove his power.
Guns are pretty much giving the government the excuse to just shoot you as a crazy gun nut (or extremist group,…) and shoot you without any morale repercussions in the people they use to do so and without any PR nightmare in the greater population for them.
They’re already abducting and deporting academics on the flimsiest justifications based off social media posts disparaging Trump and/or Elon. We’re past the point that they need to label people something as heavy as gun nut to justify their actions.
The alternative being?
Non-violent protests in large numbers would be one option. It is much harder to get the military or police to shoot a crowd of a few tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, especially when it is people from their own communities. And when you do it anyway you have a very hard time suppressing it in your and the international media.
What do non-violent “protests” do? Why would police ever really try to supress them if they don’t serve any purpose other than virtue signalling? Do you protesters expect Trump to stop ICE raids because “wow, I guess these signs with me drawn as a pig are really making me think”, or MAGA supporters to stop voting for him because you wasted your sunday out in the sun walking around?
What do shootings do? Do you genuinely believe a couple of people with handguns or rifles are going to achieve anything at all?
just use signal, heard it’s pretty good
It actually is good, though. Russians are resorting to sync scams in Ukraine so they can get intel, if Signal was breached they wouldn’t need to do it
“We’re good on OPSEC”
It actually is, up to a point.
We gotta go all malcom x on this bitch
By any means necessary
In the Internet age? Good luck
we’ve been in the “internet age” for almost 30 years now.
we’re in the algorithm, AI, deepfake age now, the Methods and tactics used for an Information war in the 2000s was less effective in the 2010s, and all but obsolete in the 2020s
Me a Europoor master race :)
Looks like all that wealth you got in your tech elite is really going great isn’t it?
spills the beans on a hot mic
hadn’t heard that one
pretty sure Trump was against burning flags too, what’s the new lore there
The post is mixed up. I’m sure it’s referring to:
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social at 9:37 a.m.
Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs. Stocks soared on the news, closing up 9.5% by the end of trading.
Racism, homophobia, ableism… Yay 4chan on lemmy! \s
Who upvotes this trash? And then y’all wonder why we have fascism.
>Goes into community about 4Chan
>Gets upset
How could empire do this to me.
