The sad truth is that the Left could also potentially have a number of gun enthusiasts because nothing is stopping any of them from doing that, but the Democratic party has turned most leftists into pacifists who are afraid of guns and feel that impotent sign waving and finger waggling is enough.
Honestly, if Republicans/right-wingers want to kill off their own voters by encouraging anti-intellectualism, anti-vax, etc, we should allow them to Darwin Award themselves to extinction. Fuck them; all this leftist empathy and pacifism has allowed fascists to resurge and take over nearly every government across the world.
There are a lot of liberal and leftist gun owners, they just don’t wear them as identity or gender affirming care.
“How do you know if your conservative neighbor bought a new gun?” “Don’t worry he’ll tell you.”
But more broadly, yes we’ve let the right RUIN the very principles that we could have held onto and come out on top. If we kept guns and the American flag we wouldn’t be in a fascist state right now. I’m not even kidding. We gave them nationalism AND the tools to keep it.
Fucking soft-ass whinging lefties are still circling around issues of principle when we’re literally losing the entire country. “Oh no, that guy said the R word once! We should make 48-minute essay pieces on youtube calling out their bad behavior while flying the flags of our own particular ethnicity or identity as we retreat to Discord to get emotional comfort from our niche group of parasocial clingers who will never actually challenge us!”
I am fully aware this is going to piss off some Lemmy users who read it and they will obtusely think that I’m anti-pride or saying that we should use slurs. I’m not saying that (but thank you for proving my point). I’m saying we fixated on the wrong problems. We have tripped up BADLY because our idealism had no wiles or strategy. I guess it was all worthwhile if you can be the most ideologically pure leftist in the camps.
Fear not, there’s a lot of gun enthusiasts, ready to fight against tiranny!
No they seem to like tyranny.
There’s a lot of gun enthusiasts, ready to fight for tyranny! - FTFY
Both can be true
One can be more true though, and the latter clearly is.
The sad truth is that the Left could also potentially have a number of gun enthusiasts because nothing is stopping any of them from doing that, but the Democratic party has turned most leftists into pacifists who are afraid of guns and feel that impotent sign waving and finger waggling is enough.
This is pretty much entirely false. Gun ownership is far from non-existent on the left.
And frankly, supporting the right to own guns doesn’t give you a right to demand that others do so if they choose not to.
YES
They also said we should respect Nazi free speech rights and the religious beliefs of people who disallow doctors to save their children from dying.
Yeah that’s really more the Constitution than anything.
Honestly, if Republicans/right-wingers want to kill off their own voters by encouraging anti-intellectualism, anti-vax, etc, we should allow them to Darwin Award themselves to extinction. Fuck them; all this leftist empathy and pacifism has allowed fascists to resurge and take over nearly every government across the world.
There are a lot of liberal and leftist gun owners, they just don’t wear them as identity or gender affirming care.
“How do you know if your conservative neighbor bought a new gun?” “Don’t worry he’ll tell you.”
But more broadly, yes we’ve let the right RUIN the very principles that we could have held onto and come out on top. If we kept guns and the American flag we wouldn’t be in a fascist state right now. I’m not even kidding. We gave them nationalism AND the tools to keep it.
Fucking soft-ass whinging lefties are still circling around issues of principle when we’re literally losing the entire country. “Oh no, that guy said the R word once! We should make 48-minute essay pieces on youtube calling out their bad behavior while flying the flags of our own particular ethnicity or identity as we retreat to Discord to get emotional comfort from our niche group of parasocial clingers who will never actually challenge us!”
I am fully aware this is going to piss off some Lemmy users who read it and they will obtusely think that I’m anti-pride or saying that we should use slurs. I’m not saying that (but thank you for proving my point). I’m saying we fixated on the wrong problems. We have tripped up BADLY because our idealism had no wiles or strategy. I guess it was all worthwhile if you can be the most ideologically pure leftist in the camps.