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  • You are shifting the goal posts. My point is simply that the delusion of an armed insurrection against the government is naive in the extreme. It will never play out the way you imply by saying “the crazy Nazis are in charge so don’t give them a monopoly on force”. They already have the monopoly on the only force that matters in any realistic internal conflict scenario.

    As for vaccines: your right to be a moron stops at the point where it endangers others. Your right to be an idiot does not supersede my right to life. That is a well understood principal in US law. Are you allowed to skip the vaccine? Sure. But I’m allowed to require you show proof of vaccination before letting you on my private property, including my place of business. And the same goes for public property too. The metal detectors used to keep guns out of government buildings is proof of this reality


  • neatchee@lemmy.worldtoRelationship Advice@lemmy.worldFeeling defeated
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    Please take a deep breath, then read what’s next slowly, focusing on the meaning, not just the sounds. Read it over and over if you have to.

    Ready?

    Your abuser needed to put you down. They needed to make you hate yourself. They needed you to believe they were the only one who would ever love you. Because they knew that if you ever realized how strong, how worthy, how amazing you actually are… you’d leave.

    Keeping you from believing in yourself is the chain they used to tie you down. You are strong. You are loveable. You are worthy. You are so much more amazing than you could possibly know. And the very proof is these wretched feelings that were placed in you by an evil person to keep you caged.

    Every time you start to think these negative thoughts, I’d like you to say to yourself - out loud if that’s what takes - “these scars don’t define me. If the things they said were true, they’d never have needed to say them at all. These thoughts are the proof that I am so much better than that asshole would ever let me be.”

    You can defeat this

    You can be powerful

    You can find love that is beautiful and kind

    I believe in you


  • The point is that if the total IDF death count in Gaza is that low after more than year of fighting, you and your rifle aren’t gonna do shit against the government if they’re able to convince the military to attack Americans on their own soil.

    Like I said, I’m not trying to ban guns outright. If you want to defend your family from other crazy civilians with guns, I can appreciate that.

    But this conversation started with a comment about Nazis being in power. You cannot fight that kind of power with the firearms available to civilians. Only other civilians with equally weak armaments

    And my original comment was simply pointing out the hypocrisy of reversing course on vaccines when kids start dying when there are thousands of deaths every year, dozens of which are children in schools, and our leadership won’t even consider strengthening background checks or banning bump stocks





  • If you think the type of arms you can get your hands on will help one iota you are gravely mistaken

    Should the people ever need to fight the government of the US there are only two things that will matter:

    1. How much of the military joins which side

    2. Which nations supply each side with arms

    Either the people get some of the military on their side (along with the planes, tanks, drones, etc they bring along) and are propped up by foreign interests, or the military steamrolls any resistance.

    This has been true in every major conflict in the last several decades. You either have the support of military assets and foreign governments or you lose.