On X, Kirk insisted, "Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel 'safe' by taking freedoms away from others. Don't fall for it."
Things like the TSA changes post 9/11 are primarily security theater, ineffective security requirements that make it seem like it makes you safer while just being a waste of time.
Most of the changes in the Patriot Act removed citizen rights for "security" yet have resulted in very little else apart from removing those rights.
Minor quibble: the messaging is violent. It is designed to stir (mostly negative) emotional reactions which are then used for even more violent rhetoric.
So, yes it appeals to violent people, but it also makes people hateful and violent.
There's a word for it in German: Volksverhetzung and there's law against it since after WW2. Guess why.
In my town the shitty tent in front of a supermarket that for years has sold Let's Go Brandon and other dumb Trump merch recently transitioned into Grateful Dead merch and other tie-dye crap. To say Jerry Garcia is doing back flips in his grave would be an understatement.
We genuinely have churches that'll have congregants bring in their guns en masse to have them blessed so that they'll shoot the right thing. Seriously.
The violent left are actually usually highly intelligent people instead of fucking morons who run around making straw man arguments on why they should own a gun.
They allowed him to turn himself in... seven hours ago? and haven't plastered anything about him besides his name and major across the right wing news. that means he was one of them. if there was anything not straight white male christian conservative about him, it would be everywhere.
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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 339d
On X, Kirk insisted, "Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel 'safe' by taking freedoms away from others. Don't fall for it."
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 339d
He didn't fall for it, just kinda slumped over.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 339d
He's right, just not about the right topics.
Things like the TSA changes post 9/11 are primarily security theater, ineffective security requirements that make it seem like it makes you safer while just being a waste of time.
Most of the changes in the Patriot Act removed citizen rights for "security" yet have resulted in very little else apart from removing those rights.
opus86@lemmy.today · 46 pts · 339d
When you design your messaging to appeal to the most violent of people, you will get violence. Politics be damned at this point.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 18 pts · 339d
Minor quibble: the messaging is violent. It is designed to stir (mostly negative) emotional reactions which are then used for even more violent rhetoric.
So, yes it appeals to violent people, but it also makes people hateful and violent.
There's a word for it in German: Volksverhetzung and there's law against it since after WW2. Guess why.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 43 pts · 339d
I once saw a car with two stickers on the bumper:
A Jesus fish and an AK-47.
threeonefour@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 339d
Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 6 pts · 339d
Don't you dare look back.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 339d
Never
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 339d
In my town the shitty tent in front of a supermarket that for years has sold Let's Go Brandon and other dumb Trump merch recently transitioned into Grateful Dead merch and other tie-dye crap. To say Jerry Garcia is doing back flips in his grave would be an understatement.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 339d
I vaguely remember a priest having blessed his guns in Constantine ( the Keanu Reeves one).
Or perhaps it was Dogma?
fartographer@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 339d
You might be confusing movies with Texas...
We genuinely have churches that'll have congregants bring in their guns en masse to have them blessed so that they'll shoot the right thing. Seriously.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 339d
Texas: the state so bad that even the dude who designed the flag rated it one star.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 339d
They just copied California's original flag.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 339d
Star Bear out of 5 is a much more accurate rating for California anyway 😁
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 339d
I just wish they would redraw the bear. He's scared right now. The bear should be neutral or angry, not scared.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 339d
Or have two heads
ruko24@programming.dev · 15 pts · 339d
I haven't seen Constantine but George Carlin as a priest in Dogma blessed his golf clubs. That allowed them to kill a demon.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 339d
That's what I'm thinking of!
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 339d
The do something similar i. From dusk toll dawn. But i haven't seen that movie in like 25 years
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 339d
In Dogma, the catholic Cardinal played by George Carlin blessed his golf clubs. Silent Bob used it to kill the demon.
And I believe all of Constantine's weapons were blessed. So he could kill demons.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 339d
maybe we're thinking of Equilibrium?
lennybird@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 339d
We're both hippie soy boys, and radical left violent extremists.
"the enemy is both strong and weak."
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 22 pts · 339d
And that tweet is probably way older than september '25.
Which, imo, makes it more relevant, not less.
[PSA: never cut off the date]
echo@lemmings.world · 14 pts · 339d
The violent left are actually usually highly intelligent people instead of fucking morons who run around making straw man arguments on why they should own a gun.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 339d
Revelation that the Kirk shooter was a disillusioned Qanon weirdo upset about the Epstein debacle when?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 339d
They allowed him to turn himself in... seven hours ago? and haven't plastered anything about him besides his name and major across the right wing news. that means he was one of them. if there was anything not straight white male christian conservative about him, it would be everywhere.
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 339d
Deathgl0be@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 339d
We’re not running the department of war either
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 339d
War is actually peace.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 339d
Whoa....don't point the gun up like that, you could get shot in the neck.
huppakee@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 339d
Why is that middle pin on a tie? Who the fuck puts a pin there?
ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 339d
there are pins you can put on a tie. usually just a gold button or something point symmetrical. like this: DDG link, but pointing to pinterest
but i think it is quite funny, that this person 'aims' the gun at their own head...
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 339d
That could be a tie pin. They're to pin the tie to your shirt so that it doesn't fly away on the wind or something.
klemptor@startrek.website · 5 pts · 339d
It's a tie tack, that's a normal thing. But it being a gun is tacky as all getout.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 339d
Hey..you could get shot in the neck with a gun there.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 339d
this reminds me of this meme:
vin@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 339d
Looks like Taliban
MJKee9@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 339d
"Just thinking of John, Jackie. Thinking of John."
-bh
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 339d
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 339d
That’s hilarious. They look like they’re cosplaying as provos?