THIS! 🥂

I was "radicalized at 8 years old when my Hispanic best friend's brother was drowned in a small puddle in an irrigation ditch by three white teenage boys and nothing was done about it...the boys went free and my fri😢end's family had to move away...

As the meme points out: All those people saying "Guns don't kill people, it's not the guns. Most definitely believe books can make you gay"! Thats hypocrisy of the worst & most bigoted kind.

Depends on what books you actually really read. I mean paper pages.

Not a gamblin’ man, but I’m betting books about guns ain’t banned.

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Don't you just love anti-Israel propaganda in the form of made up news stories and lies?

The bias report on that site may be the worst I’ve ever seen.

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The fact is the shameless republicans ban gun in the following places.

Guns are NOT banned at NRA conventions. I have been at several, & carried both open and concealed. The only placed they were banned was when a speaker was under Secret Service protection. Then, it's the Secret Service who bans them, not the NRA. Facts matter.

Gunpussies are lying pieces of kkkrap

As the vampire Mary Jane said, " Silver and stake, my heart will break, but names'll never hurt me."

wow you maggot gunpussies are actually geetting stupider. You jerk off to this picture: (watch this kkkweef flag me)

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When I saw Project2025 sets out to destroy The Department of Education in favor of Christian Science and History..? I guess you could say I felt "radicalized" in response to that. NOT ON MY WATCH!

Fun Fact: it's cheaper to buy a gun w/ ammo than a bicycle

Hell, all that needs to done is more background scrutiny and 3 month waiting periods on all gun purchases... 21 ONLY. Triple ammunition tax. (1000 rounds of .223 FMJ can be delivered to your door for $400 currently) Mass shootings would be gone in 5-10 years.

I think you misspelled "empowered".

No books have been banned. You can read any book you want and have your children, if you have them, read any book you want them to.

Are you idiot MAGA? Check the book list banned by Florida and Texas

Book bans are most certainly real.

What book can’t you read?

Are you being willfully obtuse or just not going outside?

My only reply is to please keep it up. Most voting Americans do Not support this line of “reasoning”.

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It was banning abortion for me, Women are people and legislating that they do not have full autonomy of their own bodies is a hallmark of a failed nation. It's kind of stuff the talaban does.

The treeeeees wont be harmed if the lorax is aaaaarmed.

Ill disarm when everyone does but not unilaterally and neither should you. Especially not during a fascist take over of the country.

What radicalized me was when my kindergarten teacher told the class to "treat others how you'd like to be treated." That really resonated with me.

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Neither is possible, both are nonstarters.

We’ve had a ban on assault rifles before and it worked incredibly well. Might as well start there. I don’t know why we think America is the only country gun control wouldn’t work.

There's tens of millions of more assault rifles now. They can be 3D printed at home. Gun control isn't even working in Australia, 3D printed guns are breaking every convention. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You’re so right let’s do absolutely nothing and just continue to let children die.

I didn't say that. 1) expansion of social programs to meet needs 2) build free, accessible public ranges 3) work with fire dept/emts to train students on Stop the Bleed, provide free IFAKs 4) create gun education curriculum for schools

It immediately signals anti-people, doesn't it?

What books have been banned?

Here's a sampling of information on the topic. Frankly, John Green's "Looking For Alaska" doesn't deserve being banned. In fact it should be required reading for young adults.

Anything that conflates LGB with the TQ+ is just homophobic dribble...

Oh so now you wanna divide and conquer LGBTQ+? You don't feel THOSE people should work alongside THESE people? If gays, bis, trans, etc don't band together? They will be eaten by the opposition. TOGETHER FOREVER! I'm a straight white guy and even I want them to work together. GROW UP!

Just because books aren't available in certain settings doesn't mean they are banned. The massive onslaught of bullshit hyperbole like that just helped to divide the left and allow Trump to walk in and easily fill the void. If you want him gone,we need to do better.

That’s exactly what book ban means. It’s embarrassing how wrong you are but still replying over and over and over again. Maybe know what the fuck you’re talking about before trying to pop off.

No it's not. Book ban means it's banned entirely, no longer accessible and illegal to possess. Like how Mein Kamf was banned in Germany after WW2. By your logic because I can't find a hentai section at my local elementary school library it means Manga is banned...

It's physically impossible to do "entirely" what you suggest. Governments and other Powers can demand this, but WE will circumvent these limitations. Eternal vigilance against willful ignorance. youtu.be/-_lUswcHCnI?...

Honestly just ignore them. They don’t even know what a book ban is and they are a terf not worth anyone’s time or effort.

Science denying dribble like "Gender Queer" would have only made it worse.

As a person with Asperger's, had social media existed when I was a child this could have easily been my story: youtu.be/wPChcEkrn1U?...

You're a straight bitch telling a gay man how to feel about gay issues. Just stop and think about that for a second. Would you tell a black man how to feel about black issues?

You're a fellow human believing you & only you are right about everything and refuse to accept when you already lost this argument about twenty tweets ago! I can't speak for others but I have talked to a black guy about where I stand on black issues and he didn't punch me in the face. Progress!

So because my English teacher told me to not bring Silence of the Lambs to class for reading time when I was in 8th grade (movie had just come out) I guess he was "banning" eh? They s entire time you've just made yourself look like a history denying uneducated dolt.

The, classic "I have a gay/black/whatever friend"... Are we really dropping that low in the intellect meter? Tell me how I've lost anything when all I've done is state facts while your only argument is personal attacks...

People like you are one of the worst things to ever happen to the LGB community.

People like you insult other people when your argument already flew out the window with that dove of yours several tweets ago and yes I still call them tweets you wanna ban that too?

She's just another straight Karen whose probably only experience around LGBs is when she went to a gay bar for her bachelorette party...

The only argument she could give was the pathetic "you're a TERF". For starters when you have to jump to personal attacks that quickly it shows just how little knowledge you actually possess on the subject, not to mention TERF just means "someone who understands biology".

If your only argument is to accuse me of understanding biology your pathetically clueless and not a good LGB ally. Oh and pronouns in bio are just a sign of low intelligence.

FFS, stop it with the blatant dishonest hyperbole. All it's done is help alienate people, voters, from the democratic party. I bet you can't even define gender...

You're the one that doesn't know what it is. By your logic, just because a book isn't available EVERYWHERE it's banned. I can't find Silence of the Lambs or the Shining at my nephews school library, must mean they're banned.

When I was in middle school, I was extremely interested in reading everything I could about the evolution of man. Just because I had to walk to the public library 3 blocks from my school to check out books by Darwin and Leakey, doesn't mean they were "banned".

It is in the modern age, but that doesn't change what a book ban actually is.

Loud and ignorant. That would be banned at the federal level and there is no librarian that would ever put a hentai section in a school library to begin with. It’s a non issue unlike kids dying in schools which is the part of the conversation you clearly don’t care about.

Believing in the concept of gender, a concept based solely on outdated, harmful, stereotypes. A concept created by a pedophile doctor in the 50s to cover up his own malpractice, is a sign of low intelligence and a brain that's easily susceptible to bullshit. You must have been raised religiously...

Yet they'll include Gender Queer which is just if, not more so potentially harmful if discovered by a child in elementary school. Saying this as a GAY MAN.

Oh and as a gay man, one that doesn't believe in the regressive, misogynistic, homophobic concept of gender. Absolute science denying garbage like Gender Queer shouldn't be recognized for anything more than the book you grab when the library is out of TP.

Yes, I get that's the point, but it was written so badly that she doesn't have a single redeemable trait. She's just a shit human all around. I like Hank Green's videos, but the man can't write.

Oh and looking for Alaska is one of the last things I'd want my child to read. I read it out of boredom on a train ride across the country on a friend's suggestion. Should have titled Alaska: The gill farm far colder than the state. Gree really knows how to make you despise a character.

I can easily purchase all of those or find them at my local library, thus they aren't banned.

Maybe learn what exactly a book ban is before replying. And why choose to fight over the semantics of what it means for a book to be banned when clearly the point is kids are dying in schools and our government has done absolutely nothing to prevent it from happening again and again.

This isn't a book ban though. Also books like "Gender Queer" are homophobic science denying rhetoric that would only confuse a child. Especially one like the weird autistic one I was who later turned out to just be a basic homosexual.

Yeah I’m not wasting my time arguing with an old ignorant terf.

I am Tired of Explaining Reality to Fuckwits

I’m not radicalized at all. I’m sensible. Radicals have taken over and it’s a senseless disgrace

Same

There’s only been one good guy with a gun 👇

Me too. And trying to make women 2nd class citizens! That’s what made me rise up!

Make the same argument that they do “it’s not the books, it’s the reader.”

That's why we need more guns. To protect ourselves from evil people.

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How much would you wanna bet that if they regulated guns, they'd just ban Democrats from buying them, LMAO.

It is the NRA/Republican Party's refusal to use the FIRST HALF of the Second Amendment to protect children and strangers from those that the SECON HALF arms with assault rifles and max capacity assault magazines as fast the killer can get into the move to destroy children-that radicalized me.

I'm guessing you approve of banning some books in some sense though, right? Like removing the one by a gender critical author from a prize shortlist perhaps?

I think banning books is the least of our problems when kids are being slaughtered and traumatized.

You can chew gum and walk at the same time, right?

Look at his timeline. The trolliest. I blocked.

Thanks

No. Everything else goes on hold until 'progressives' decide it's ok to think about them again.

Whatever.

Okay, so banning books "radicalised you" but you think that's not important enough to care about right now? Your giving off some confusing messages there..

A little common sense might help you here. I was radicalized by growing up doing active shooter drills and watching law makers defend guns while banning books instead.

I understand that and have great sympathy, but it is still strange to argue that the 2nd amendment can be parked until America repeals the 1st.

At no point did I say that. Hope this helps.

You are being disingenuous - saying "banning books is the least of our problems when kids are being slaughtered" is saying pretty much exactly that.

It just reinforced me.

They really don't understand much do they?

Reading books is a major what changed me.

Americans need to woke up 🦋💙