“In other words, the same exact people who swore they would take up arms against a government that trampled our civil rights sided with the government doing exactly that.”
To the surprise of exactly nobody.
Those who trumpet their concern about “protecting the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution” are exactly like those who trumpet their concern for “the rights of the unborn” (and often the same people.
Those “causes“ or just the acceptable sounding cover story for what they’re really interested in: controlling other people’s lives.
When right-to-lifers are presented with ways in which they could actually benefit a child (supporting day care for single working mothers, readily available contraception so that unwanted pregnancies don’t occur, pre-natal care for the unborn child, etc.) they vehemently oppose everyone of them. Making it blindingly obvious that the welfare of the child is the last thing they are interested in.
Similarly, when the right-to-bear-arms crowd has a chance to act on their manly claims and actually stand up against a threat to their liberties, as Justin very clearly pointed out, not only are they are nowhere to be seen but they’re actively supporting the oppressive side.
The only “liberty“ that they are interested in protecting is theirs to dominate, discriminate against and silence other people.
Thank you for keeping this in our faces, because it's too easy to just shrug and say "that'll never happen" even when it literally is happening. It's easy to glance at a newscast showing the very violence you're talking about and say, "oh, that's in some other town/city/state. It'll never happen here." Especially since most of us are shunning public interactions during Covid, the people inclined toward violence and voter suppression or terrorization are more free than ever to wreak their anarchistic inclinations. And their head cheerleader is the goddamn president of the United States, and his squad are most of the republican party.
Millions upon millions of Americans are out of work and about to lose supplemental unemployment, and more millions are about to be evicted from their homes. You think homelessness WAS a big problem, Scrotus? Wait a few weeks and you'll see just how big a problem it is. And you and your minions caused it.
Millions have lost their health insurance while you ignored, and fanned the flames of, the worst pandemic to sweep the country in a century, and rest comfortably and smugly in the knowledge that you almost single-handedly destroyed America. Mission accomplished!
We must all VOTE like our life depend on it, because it very well may.
“In other words, the same exact people who swore they would take up arms against a government that trampled our civil rights sided with the government doing exactly that.”
To the surprise of exactly nobody.
Those who trumpet their concern about “protecting the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution” are exactly like those who trumpet their concern for “the rights of the unborn” (and often the same people.
Those “causes“ or just the acceptable sounding cover story for what they’re really interested in: controlling other people’s lives.
When right-to-lifers are presented with ways in which they could actually benefit a child (supporting day care for single working mothers, readily available contraception so that unwanted pregnancies don’t occur, pre-natal care for the unborn child, etc.) they vehemently oppose everyone of them. Making it blindingly obvious that the welfare of the child is the last thing they are interested in.
Similarly, when the right-to-bear-arms crowd has a chance to act on their manly claims and actually stand up against a threat to their liberties, as Justin very clearly pointed out, not only are they are nowhere to be seen but they’re actively supporting the oppressive side.
The only “liberty“ that they are interested in protecting is theirs to dominate, discriminate against and silence other people.
Justin,
Thank you for keeping this in our faces, because it's too easy to just shrug and say "that'll never happen" even when it literally is happening. It's easy to glance at a newscast showing the very violence you're talking about and say, "oh, that's in some other town/city/state. It'll never happen here." Especially since most of us are shunning public interactions during Covid, the people inclined toward violence and voter suppression or terrorization are more free than ever to wreak their anarchistic inclinations. And their head cheerleader is the goddamn president of the United States, and his squad are most of the republican party.
Millions upon millions of Americans are out of work and about to lose supplemental unemployment, and more millions are about to be evicted from their homes. You think homelessness WAS a big problem, Scrotus? Wait a few weeks and you'll see just how big a problem it is. And you and your minions caused it.
Millions have lost their health insurance while you ignored, and fanned the flames of, the worst pandemic to sweep the country in a century, and rest comfortably and smugly in the knowledge that you almost single-handedly destroyed America. Mission accomplished!
We must all VOTE like our life depend on it, because it very well may.