When right-wingers go postal, they get labeled by the media as lefties and we catch all the flack. Our only defense is the truth, that those killers were right-wingers.
When left-wingers go postal, it gets blown up on the media and generalized as the entire left and reflects poorly on left-wing causes as a whole.
It's lose-lose, but I don't mind letting the right-wing tear itself apart while right-wing extremists do the dirty work of taking out their rival right-wingers.
It's an election year. Our best out is a decisive electoral victory, which is looking likely as long as there's no fuckery behind the scenes (yes, I know that's a big if). Let's not tarnish the image of the opposition as long as that's still a chance. Too much is at stake to lose the advantage in the court of public opinion.
If they rig or cancel the election, then yes that will be the final trigger that activates the third and fifth sentences of the Declaration of Independence. But if we lose the election because we had poor trigger discipline and didn't have the patience to wait for a more advantageous position, then that's on us...
I didn't just mean political assasination, I also meant self defense. No matter how peaceful you act, some right-winger will find some reason to attack you if you're a minority.
And if one's country's gun laws are not as liberal as the United States', they should at least carry a bottle of pepper spray, a taser, and a self-defense knife. If those are illegal as well, they should make them themselves. And they should use them goddamnit.
I agree that everyone should be capable and willing (and allowed) to defend themselves. As someone who was bullied my whole life, and often got in more trouble for defending myself than I ever saw my bullies get in, that's a particular pain point for me.
But let's not delude ourselves. Even if it's in self-defense, the media would paint it as "radical left psycho-terrorist acting violent," so it should only be considered as a last resort, back-against-the-wall, do-or-die sort of action.
By the Allfather imagine how fucking insufferable he would be if he didn't get such a pain in his neck. Hope he is in whatever shitty underworld is best suited for fuckwits like himself, perhaps my cat who just passed away can piss on him much like my bathroom floor.
35 Comments
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 89 pts · 146d
He lost ONE debate about gun control and now he won't show his face anymore.
Tja@programming.dev · 32 pts · 146d
That's what you get for sticking your neck for a cause...
PhoenixDog@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 145d
Dude was just a grifter. In the end of it all he still leaned left.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 145d
Isn't it ironic?
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 145d
Shit, this one is actually funny.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 143d
You would too if you lost it to an Israeli sniper
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 143d
Naw I'd win.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 74 pts · 146d
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 146d
knotRyder@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 145d
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d
🐊😢
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 146d
we shouldn't be mean to Charlie Kirk, he has not said a single racist thing in a while, he's a good use case to learn how to engage with racists.
bootleg@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 146d
It would certainly be nice if lefties and marginalized groups also got strapped and learned how/when to use their weapon.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 145d
When right-wingers go postal, they get labeled by the media as lefties and we catch all the flack. Our only defense is the truth, that those killers were right-wingers.
When left-wingers go postal, it gets blown up on the media and generalized as the entire left and reflects poorly on left-wing causes as a whole.
It's lose-lose, but I don't mind letting the right-wing tear itself apart while right-wing extremists do the dirty work of taking out their rival right-wingers.
It's an election year. Our best out is a decisive electoral victory, which is looking likely as long as there's no fuckery behind the scenes (yes, I know that's a big if). Let's not tarnish the image of the opposition as long as that's still a chance. Too much is at stake to lose the advantage in the court of public opinion.
If they rig or cancel the election, then yes that will be the final trigger that activates the third and fifth sentences of the Declaration of Independence. But if we lose the election because we had poor trigger discipline and didn't have the patience to wait for a more advantageous position, then that's on us...
bootleg@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 145d
I didn't just mean political assasination, I also meant self defense. No matter how peaceful you act, some right-winger will find some reason to attack you if you're a minority.
And if one's country's gun laws are not as liberal as the United States', they should at least carry a bottle of pepper spray, a taser, and a self-defense knife. If those are illegal as well, they should make them themselves. And they should use them goddamnit.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 145d
I agree that everyone should be capable and willing (and allowed) to defend themselves. As someone who was bullied my whole life, and often got in more trouble for defending myself than I ever saw my bullies get in, that's a particular pain point for me.
But let's not delude ourselves. Even if it's in self-defense, the media would paint it as "radical left psycho-terrorist acting violent," so it should only be considered as a last resort, back-against-the-wall, do-or-die sort of action.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 146d
Claims to be pro life
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 146d
Come on, media people. Stop breathing down his neck!
luthis@lemmy.nz · 18 pts · 145d
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 146d
I'm loving this new approach from him. Whatever changed, I hope he keeps it up.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 145d
Remained really quiet once he lost the debate against the .50 cal.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 146d
It's the gift that keeps on giving, just like his jugular,
And this comment I keep replying with
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 146d
Don’t jump down his throat like that, guys. I’m sure he’ll have something to cough up
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 146d
Can we just take the W that we never have to hear from this guy again and stop posting memes of him.
Dadifer@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 146d
Only when it stops being funny
waggz@programming.dev · 5 pts · 145d
i keep thinking it'll stop but then something like this comes up and i chuckle again
snooggums@piefed.world · 17 pts · 146d
Not until Turning Point and all the evil he has done has been destroyed.
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 146d
No.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 2 pts · 146d
I'm with you.
Funny meme, but i don't really want to see the guys small face again.
PhoenixDog@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 145d
Nah. It pisses off Conservatives who masturbate to him so it won't stop being funny.
I was elated the day I heard he was killed. Like a reverse Harambe.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 145d
By the Allfather imagine how fucking insufferable he would be if he didn't get such a pain in his neck. Hope he is in whatever shitty underworld is best suited for fuckwits like himself, perhaps my cat who just passed away can piss on him much like my bathroom floor.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 145d
Objection@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 145d
More like Charlie Kirk remains still silent on the Iran War gottem
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 145d
I mean, I'd have expected at least some acknowledgment.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 145d
Who?