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[–] [email protected] 129 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I hate living in this time that makes satire obsolete.

Can anyone please think of the makers of south park and how they are supposed to make fun of self owning clowns like this?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago

No worries, they'll find a way to both sides this

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Satire is dead so they had to get into the restaurant business

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

“Thoughts and prayers.”

[–] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's time to deploy the-glass-is-necessary-because-its-really-a-hologram conspiracy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I read that JD Vance is an AI holopresence

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

JD Vance is just ChatGPT in a robot in a skin suit

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (11 children)

3 assassination attempts. In what 3 months? And they're all from Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The most recent "assassination attempt" was just drummed up by the media. I haven't seen any evidence it was anything other than a man with some guns in his car who happened to be near the rally.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

A couple of media places did release a very short blurb in small print that the "suspect" had no plans to assassinate anyone according to law enforcement after a short investigation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Honestly, I’d be surprised if the venn diagram of “people who would keep guns in their car” and “trump’s base” wasn’t a circle.

There’s going to be a lot of false positives in an environment like that

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Riverside county sheriff is the one who first used the term assassination attempt. Media uncritically repeated what the sheriff said.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

And when it comes to America, a man with guns in his car is a normal situation.

God I hate this place.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

It's a culture of violence

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, duh, that's why he has the glass. /S

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

yeah it is crazy fact of life that schools get shot up so much more frequently than police stations and federal buildings.

almost like politicians and police are safer than school children in the system run by police and politicians.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Also that this "fact of life" almost entirely applies only to schools in the US. The world works in mysterious ways indeed. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It blows my mind as a non-Amerian that their politicians are saying that the right to own a gun and carry it around is more important than children being able to go-to school without the fear of being killed. That's just the cost of 'freedum'.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A fact of life... when living in America. Third world country that doesn't tell its inhabitants.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

what’s so frustrating is that this “they’re a fact of life” mentality is a self-fulfilling prophecy. and the longer it continues to used as a justification for inaction, the harder it becomes to convince people that gun violence is a solvable problem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

yeah, but the solution is taking peoples guns away and many people (as do I) belive that the right to bear arms is an important human right

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Only important in the US, though.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm usually pro gun-rights, though with reasonable restrictions. I have two issues with your comment though.

First, not human right, American right. It'd be such a weird thing to say it's a human right to own firearms when they're a pretty modern thing, meanwhile shelter, food, and water are not.

Second, the second amendment is invalid. It's based on an assumption that isn't true anymore "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." A standing professional army was not the norm of the time and it wasn't expected that the newly form small US would have one. It was expected we would have to rely on a citizen militia for defence. I know what the courts have ruled, but they ignore this first section. Since the first assumption isn't true, the following assertion must be invalid. IANAL but I have no idea how it's made it through the courts so long without this being shown.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

i mean this as a genuine question: why do you think it’s important that people have access to guns? i never really got the appeal, but also haven’t talked to many people who do think guns are important, so it would be nice to hear a different perspective on this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (9 children)

for one I just belive that every human should be able to defend themselfs with weapons, if we didn't have guns I'd belive in the right to bear swoards or a bow

but now to why I belive this:

so you should know I'm an anarchist, so I reject every authority, that's why I think we should have guns, so we can stand up against authority if we need to or even if we lived in an anarchist utopia, we should have them in case a forgein nation would attack

then you also have to realize, that you can kill someone without a gun, but only if you're the stronger one. now who is stronger than the avarege woman? the avarege man! so the avarege man could rape and traumatize the avarege woman with no instant consequences so how can the avarege woman defend themself? with a gun

now I am a transgender individual in a country growing more fascist by the day, should I have to fear assault, rape and murder only because I'm different? no, I should have to be able to defend myself

I accept that your opinion may be different, and that's ok, there are good reasons to ban guns, this is just my stance on it

also, it basically boiles down to one thing: do you preffer freedom or safety? because freedom isn't safe and safety isn't free, I personally like freedom more, that's why I like my guns (and the fact, that gunsmithing is my favourite hobby)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Here in Australia people defend themselves fine without guns

Guns are better at killing lots of innocent people than defence.

Great for suicide too , and angry people who have a bad day and are unstable

You're better off with pepper spray and a rape whistle

In shootings, trained people don't stand there shooting back, they run. That should tell you more about the effectiveness of guns as an offensive weapon instead of defensive.

Lots of people with guns out there who think they're the good guys

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (9 children)

You know, if nobody had weapons then you wouldn’t need a weapon to defend yourself with

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"That's why your parents' tax dollars should be paying for nice, safe, private religious schools!" /s

[–] RamblingPanda 17 points 7 months ago

No, for tanks. School children need little tanks, like those Barbie thingies but bullet proof and closed. Make schools drive in.

Or give each child it's own protective glass shield. Maybe some sort of cubicle.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This actually makes all the sense. If he truly believes it then he’s rightly afraid. If he doesn’t believe then this sends the message to his supporters that they are right to be afraid. Either way it also tries to give him a “martyr in life” kinda vibe by trying to paint him as someone so dangerous to their little deep-state(that totally isn’t 100% conservatives if it’s anything at all) would want to get rid of.

He also has a very shootable personality and platform, and Trumping have been shot at definitely gives some reason why he’d be behind glass himself.

Benefit of the doubt interpretation though is a guy who can afford to have security and bullet-proof glass telling little children to “deal with it” is a fucking scumbag-extraordinaire.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

And that some can afford protection and made it impossible for others is also a fact of life

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Wasn't the guy who shot at trump staged behind him?

All that glass is doing is paying the audio engineers for extra work to get the front rows speakered too.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how they deal with drones.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There’s only one way to find out!

Hypothetically.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Can't wait until we use a predator drone to dome a predator.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Apparently they are gaining ground in the polls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fake polls paid by GOP would explain that if I read correctly that big post with lots of comments here (on lemmy) 1 or 2 days ago.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Who are? The Kids Getting Shot Party?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I think it would have been funny in an ironic way if he was shot from behind the barrier. Just something to really prove his point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

This is what it feels like when dealing with banks and utilities of a loved one when they pass away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah but he's "important" fuck your kids though.

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