At this point denying the mountain of evidence and advocating against this shit ending makes them just as complacent as having blood on there hands as far as I'm concerned. You want to shoot a gun, go to a range, you want to feel safe, properly fund and train your police force.
And wait.... Bluesky is "left" Twitter... don't you guys want to defund the police?
By the way, Ronald Reagan, also known as "Grandpa Caligula", or "El Gipper" said that Mensa level quote right around the time Iran was busy blowing the ass end out of American frigates, from behind a fucking Presidential podium no less
So, he doesn't like the government but doesn't mind participating in the government at the absolute TOP LEVEL that one could possibly do that. You see the issue here, correct?
Super weird that people who seem to loathe big government can't seem to unweld themselves from participating in big government. It's almost as if they're incapable of making rational, mature decisions that make sense in the context of anything but ridiculousness
Or they're just fucking scam artists conning the American people, and in that case, oh well. Hard to have a moral hangup about the separation of morons and their money 🤷🏻♂️
I think one of the biggest issues is you need to be able to hold two truths at the same time. You can acknowledge when your party or opposition does something right and still hold them accountable when they do not. Doing nothing or my teams always right leads us to where we are now.
behind a (perfectly fine) Presidential *lectern
I fucking HATE old Ronnie. Especially when it came to gun rights. But a broken clock and all that.
I feel like this should be clarified... I am a "Dolly Parton Conservative", and I absolutely think they should defund and REFUND the payments by the taxpayer of the employment OF *some* law enforcement. Context: most of my family are current or former law enforcement officers in multiple states
The issue: Have you actually seen NYPD's annual budget?! I can't imagine much of anything worse than 9/11 happening in NYC so we have so far established that: 1) NYPD's budget is higher than most countries' GDP. And 2) 9/11 still happened IN SPITE OF THIS FACT
Then, I hear from the "Right", and bizarrely, Libertarians sometimes as well that Law Enforcement Needs More Money™ For fucking WHAT, exactly? Buddy, the Ventura PD rolled up into Los Angeles so hard people literally thought they were the Marines that Hegseth sent
What could the police department who's function is to stop crime, do about planes slamming into buildings. And again funding is nothing without accountability and training in violence prevention. If there not using there budget properly then they need to be held accountable.
The govenment should at all times, be praised when it does something well and held accountable when it does not. The failure of trust in the govenment is a failure of holding them to account. The govenment is suppose to exist for the people, we have allowed them to exist only for money.
If you don't have any guns, how do you hold the government accountable? It will be like UK where they do whatever they want and the people have no recourse.
If you honestly think you can hold the government accountable using guns rather then collective action and protest feel free to give that a try. Let me know how it works out for you.
Go to any anti ICE thread and say that. You'll get called a fascist almost immediately.
How are those anti-Ice protests working out? And don't tell me the Alligator Alcatraz was a victory, opening it was a dumb stunt. ICE is still very much operating.
I guess ya missed the news where the courts are forcing it to shut down.
You missed the point. They opened 20 centers, make a big show about one, that one gets temporarily vacated, but the other 19 new ones are still operating, as well as however many old ones existed before 2025. And you call that a victory?
Every time the courts rule against the administration it shows some separation of powers still survives, the moment that stops America is lost. As long as people can still vote these people out, which has partially happened already there's a chance. One state already lost its super majority.
The people pushing for violence are either keyboard warriors or they glow.
Yes, be a good little slave and never rise up to oppose your masters. The government is desperate to catch some domestic terrorists so there are a lot of glowies and they far out number anyone with a spine, but that is because they are legitimately afraid of how effective violence can be.
Be the terror they are afraid of.
If you think fed posting on the internet is a good idea then best of luck to you.
It takes a lot more guts to walk up to someone and stab them then to simply point and shoot. I would also take the damage a knife would do and have the chance to resist over getting deleted from across the street. It's ease of use is what makes it so dangerous and casual.
Then the bobbies stop you and fine you for having a knife that you need for your trade job. It's a slippery slope. They won't stop at grabbing guns.
Now you get arrested for Facebook posts and saying, "I love bacon."
Take a look at the stats on knife crime. It's not bacon eaters doing it.
Sure. While someone is actively breaking into my house or attacking me, I just contact the cops and wait patiently.
They will go straight to “you want to defund the police” I don’t want to defund the police. I want less police trained better - using the same amount of money.
The police need to be well funded, well compensated for risking there lives to keep people safe, while also being held accountable for any abuses of the power that they have been given. As the old phrase that has been seemingly forgotten goes. To protect and serve.
Still not gonna help you if you are activity being attacked and an't call for police. But you can shoot the mother fucker. That ends it
Because clearly everyone having guns has made the situation so much better, which is why the US is such a happy, safe place where nothing bad happens and has the lowest rate of crime in the world right? Just like creating more roads leads to more traffic, more guns just leads to reasons to use them.