• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    FYI:

    Libs of TikTok is a handle for various far-right[a] and anti-LGBT[b] social-media accounts operated by Chaya Raichik (/ˈxɑːjə ˈraɪtʃɪk/ KHAH-yə RY-chik),[10] a former real estate agent.[11][12][13] Raichik uses the accounts to repost content created by left-wing and LGBT people on TikTok, and on other social-media platforms, often with hostile, mocking, or derogatory commentary.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libs_of_TikTok

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    If this thing goes on for four years as it has gone for the last 2 weeks, there’s definitely going to be some mass shootings committed by trans people in USA.

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      I fully intend (and I’m aware of the risks of saying this online, I don’t care), to burn down government buildings if they actually declare war on Canada. Until then, I’ll keep to my peaceful protesting and spreading happiness and dissent at my workplace until there’s enough wiggle room for a union to show up

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        Hey bud.

        Don’t say incriminating things on social media just because you’re behind a username.

        The glowies are watching, and the Fediverse doesn’t really protect your anonymity in general while also being run by individuals who can be arrested and their servers seized without having a corporate oligarchy getting upset about it.

        And, just as a general rule:

        Do, or do not.

        Threat displays are for chimps.

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          As stated, I’m well aware of the risks involved with this kind of statement. Again, as stated, I’m not concerned.

          While this statement is a threat to my OpSec, my government is currently incapable of tying my name or identity to a phone number. By the time they start caring about my comment right here, I’ll have much bigger issues. (I know that claim sounds ridiculous but it’s actually been a regular hurdle in my life. My documents have been fucked up by so many different agencies that it’s very difficult to figure out who I am)

          Also, threat displays are not just for chimps. The cold war had real, tangible impacts on the world. Protects have real, tangible impacts on the world. Riots get things done too, but so do threats.

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    FYI there’s an organization called the Socialist Rifle Association. They’re kind of like a very inclusive version of the NRA I suppose. I found out about them through a short documentary on youtube called Arming the Left.

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        do they even know to come here tho… reddit out reach is becoming very hard, can’t make anon accounts, can’t make account with fingerprinting…

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          Oh I expect most to go elsewhere, but the portion that end up on lemmy, after doing a search for reddit alternatives, will end up here. The greater portion probably won’t end up at single, as there aren’t any reddit alternatives in the way that reddit was an alternative to digg.

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    And a Defend Equality sticker on the stock! Super based. This person has an open invitation to all my backyard cookouts next summer.

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    Rational people pay attention to unarmed peaceful protestors…

    But the people in power aren’t rational, and the boots on the ground attack if protestors are unarmed…

    Vests and rifles are going to be necessary optics at protests for the foreseeable future.

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      L take. I’m glad that person didn’t have to use it, as that would mean violence was being brought upon innocent protesters that they therefore had to defend.

      As ice cube taught us, any day you don’t have to use the AK is a good day.

      HAVING the gun, and therefore demonstrating second amendment rights is different than needing to use it.

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    I don’t get the take here.

    Is this bad because…they had a gun?

    Or is it bad because the gun had a transgender flag?

    Aren’t they all for gun rights?

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      Before I noticed the source, I just thought, “Badass!” Then I had the same question as you.

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      You make the fatal flaw of thinking there’s reasoning behind their beliefs. They make up reasons to justify their beliefs. These reasons are always narrow-in-scope and context-dependant, but are often presented as generalized statements. They will change their argument to suit their aims.

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      They’re for gun rights within the scope of their interpretation of the constitution. It’s starts out “We the people” and when you don’t consider someone a person, you don’t consider them to have those same rights.

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    Good, every progressive should be armed. Its like the literal reason we have the second amendment in the first place.

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      Got my CCW after trump won in 2016, didn’t end up needing it

      Got plates after this one, I’m not going to be a protest without it and a rifle.

      It sounds like an escalation, but a show of force prevents a lot of violence, and it works especially well on the people we’re protesting. Like, that’s not a dig. Due to brain differences it’s harder to win over the right by appealing to empathy or facts and logic.

      Everyone that works on is already mostly on our side.

      What works on conservatives is fear of immediate consequences. You think a trumpet would drive into protesters when a dozen would actually open fire and make them legit “fear for their lives”?

      Hell, they overrun the Capitol because cops just had Glocks and riot gear…

      These days a protest ain’t safe unless people are posted up.

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        I always believed in the 2A, though up to now i never owned one, don’t hunt game, and owning a gun is an extra responsibility i didn’t feel the need to take on. Though this has changed recently as i am a proud yet reluctant owner of an SFAR. I also got my gas mask with NATO cartridges.

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          I come from hillbillies, so technically I owned a rifle and a shotgun before I was ever born.

          But I never went thru the hassle of getting a CCW and small pistol to carry.

          But shits fucking crazy these days. Like I’ve lived in some rough areas, and had plenty of people show me their gun as intimidation since I was a punk teenager. But I was never seriously worried about getting shot, people had something to lose and I was never doing something that was worth it.

          Nowadays people with a good job and family are just firing off over incredibly minor shit.

          Everyone is just willing to throw it all away over nothing.

          I really think we’re gonna find out COVID caused similar issues to lead poisoning even among minor cases with no symptoms. People just have no chill, and everyone and their mother is strapped here now.

          I also got my gas mask with NATO cartridges

          You really don’t need it. Tear gas in an open environment is not bad, you move 10 feet away for a few minutes.

          People will tell you tennis rackets is the move, but that could lead to serious charges if used to hit one back at cops.

          What you need is buckets. They fire a can, you cap it. If you do have to retreat, someone will likely (completely on accident and without any malice) knock it over releasing the tear gas and slowing the cops.

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            I was in the military, and i had one. Seemed like a thing to get, and it couldn’t hurt. You are right about the buckets, i have seen those work well in protests. The police had to resort to shooting protestors in the face with the grenades instead, blew someones eye out of their skull.

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          Shooting can absolutely be fun - not just a tool to fight oppression. “Can I shoot something smaller and further away?” is a question you can keep asking yourself!

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      That’s a very modern interpretation of the second amendment popularized by conservatives. What it means ‘literally’ is hotly debated but only relatively recently did conservative pundents push this definition away from the arguably more ‘literal’ concept of organized state militias. If you think an arms race between liberal activists and right wing racist hillbillies (ie. Most of America) is going to end with the armed liberals winning, you need to check out the gun cabinets and gun sheds of the conservative homes in my town. Every time I see a ridiculous call to arms post like this on Lemmy I put some money aside to donate to one of my favorite gun control charities.

      https://www.everytown.org/

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        Just because people don’t put them in a literal showcase and make it their entire personality doesn’t mean they don’t own as many they just don’t want to get robbed as badly.

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        The rulings testing the militia part of the clause go back a long way establishing it is not a necessary part (and certainly it doesn’t read that way).

        Also Everytown’s ideas are not based on evidence or even common sense. They can fuck right off.

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    Now, as an average libsoftiktok follower, where do I call in the bomb threat? The gun owners house for owning the transgender gun? The gun manufacturer for making a transgender gun? The NRA for not making transgender guns illegal? The state capitol for allowing the transgender gun on their grounds? Or nowhere because there’s evidence of the thing actually happening?