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  • this is true, but i don’t these people not owning guns would stop them from doing harm. Unless we’re talking like the 0.01% chance of your SO literally walking into your room, shooting you point blank with a 12ga and walking out and surrendering to the police instantly, which basically never happens.

    People don’t just wake up and start hurting people. That’s just not how it works. Maybe an accident, but you would have to be either extremely negligent or extremely stupid to end up hurting someone, and most likely, it’ll be you. (because you’re the one maintaining it)

    again, falling back to the power tools argument, or basically any other potentially dangerous object, anything is dangerous if you stare at it long enough.


  • Yeah. Russias economy is smoked. Got any evidence otherwise?

    they were supposed to have been ruined 3 years ago by sanctions. It didn’t happen, and if anything, strengthened their economy because now they have a military manufacturing economy that’s modernized and running at capacity, effectively.

    China is having to buy their falling banks. Bubble popping .

    The us has done this multiple times, it’s worked every fucking time.


  • The big problem is that the amount of effort, and the numbers killed, will be much smaller if done before all democratic infrastructure has been destroyed.

    this is highly debatable, right now you have about one entire roughly functional piece of the federal government, and about 30% of the population willing to fight over it, and probably some additional that are going to get caught in the cross fire. These people are GOING to resist, and they’re going to resist effectively, because most of the government structure and logistics to supply the, currently exists.

    If you wait until everything has collapsed, more people may die in the meantime, but now you’re fighting against what is effectively the russian military during the invasion of ukraine in 2022 or whenver, as opposed to the current modern day US military that has in service F-35s. And numerous allies (who may or may not support them)

    You’re effectively fighting as a person with no experience and a lot of (misplaced) motivation, against someone who is trained, experienced, and aware of the situation.

    As opposed to an opportunist making opportunist moves in an opportunistic environment. (the suitable one)







  • he literally did, definitionally he launched a failed coup. At the very least an attempted insurrection.

    He did the same thing Hillary did in the election before that.

    complete disinformation, hillary contested the results, which is a thing you are legally entitled to doing (she later retracted that statement publicly) trump has NEVER once retracted his statement, he STILL says it was stolen.






  • it’s both? You live in the same world i do right? Like we both have the same level of intelligence and critical thinking right? You can let people own guns legally, as weapons of self defense, while also preventing people who are a danger to society and other people, from owning them as well. We’re clearly struggling with the second part, and the republican gun movement isn’t doing much to improve that look either.

    Whether a gun is good or bad depends on timing and perspective.

    literally no? Whether or not a gun is good depends solely on whether or not it positively influenced your outcome in life. Murdering someone is obviously bad, and is going to have a bad outcome for you, using it to protect yourself against someone in a situation where you may have been killed, is obviously a good thing for you.

    Timing and perspective is just what LEADS to these situations, but doesn’t actually denote any significant quality.

    a gun at home is way more likely to kill a member of the household than an assailant.

    due to domestic violence? I’m guessing responsible gun owners aren’t just randomly shooting their family members and pets randomly. Unless you’re referring to some sort of like, schizophrenic safety metric where if your house is on a native indian burial site you’re 3x more likely to get cancer and fucking die. In which case, that’s due to an individuals inherent incompatibility with life, not due to any fault of the gun or the gun owner. (unless they were negligent)

    I live alone, and don’t have kids over. I ain’t killing myself, and I have decades of experience in firearm safety. So the odds of someone in my household getting hurt by my guns are very low.

    exactly, the best kind of person to own a gun. Whether or not you have a family doesn’t significantly change that statistic, unless you don’t responsibly store them, or educate your family on them, or i guess you randomly decided to kill everyone in your house one day.

    But someone with no training, small kids in the house, and in a safe area isn’t in the same situation, and firearms make them less-safe.

    not necessarily, but that is a significantly increased risk for that gun owner. It’s like arguing that owning a power tool is dangerous to your entire family, and neighbors, simply because someone could get hurt by it. Which IS true, it’s just not a real statistic that people actually view.


  • russia has no more war chest money* (they are required to subsidized industry directly, or make money from said industry which is now significantly upsized and has more capacity (plus the US peace talks meme))

    china is in a real estate crisis, so is america, and canada, and australia, and london, and basically every other high density population area in the world. This literally isn’t new.