The Boys was supposed to be an exaggeration, not an instruction manual

Schlecht bei Nachrichten, Faktenchecks / Wissenschaft, Mathe, sozialen Interaktionen, Ratschlägen… aber hey immerhin haben wir photorealistische Fake-Videos von lustigen Tieren und Emails die keiner lesen will.

roughly 50% of your wage

can we lay this myth to rest? I keep hearing the 50% number from expats / tourists / international friends and it’s simply not correct. For the vast majority of people its 42% or less.

E: sorry for the kneejerk reaction, I also wanted to say: fantastic coment overall. I’d add the current political climate and generally stronger right wing/conservative leaning of the general population.

So much interesting stuff on there, holy moly

when even his party colleagues are careful about defending him, i’m pretty confident he will be out for the time being.
usually they jump at any opportunity to play the victim, but here they dance around the topic pretty obviously

Fuck yyeeeeaaah

Krah has had it coming for a long time now. One of the most publicly and actively corrupt politicians we have.

Every now and then our parliament comes through and leverages the full force of the constitution.

shooting live rounds into a crowd of (presumably) unarmed or lightly armed (think sticks, stones) protesters is a vile, inexcusable failure or intentional executions to retain the status quo.
A police force with tear gas, water cannons and riot gear has zero reasons to resort to live ammunition.

So, offering support to a sovereign state is not encroaching on a neighbouring state’s borders.

However, annexing a bordering sovereign state is per definition encroaching on another state’s borders.

Even if you do it with unmarked soldiers and officially state it’s totally not you doing it.

Doing the same thing openly, 8 years later with full military force is also illegal.

Correctly predicting an invasion doesn’t justify it.

I keep remembering that automated edit-and-delete-suite for reddit when i’m scrolling feddit at work, but then forget when i’m home.
It’s about damn time i nuke my stuff.

Not sure if a generic tap water filter will do you any good.
They’re not really made to filter any dangerous contaminants.

1. i don’t scour your post history for sources, i look at the stuff you send me. Pro tip, the username specifies individual people on this platform
2. 45% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents is not 50+
3. Dems and dem leaning people are not “the left”. fun fact, dems aren’t even center left. they’re center right.

what stats are you reading man? rounding 45 to 50+? or am i missing some specific other line that you’re adding to the numbers?

regardless, none of the above are shooting anyone but fellow civilians.

Oh SICK!
I was looking forward to this, then of course forgot when it releases.

so you’re hell bent on the claim that no meaningful amount of left leaning people in the US possess guns and that’s the root of the problem.
do you have numbers on that or is it more of a vibe fact.

No botanicals involved.
You are either completely misunderstanding or intentionally misconstruing like half of what i’m saying.
DESPITE your great plan of arming every waking being, and many guns in civillian hands, nobody is keen on starting a civil war - as is evident by the lack of any shootouts of the great armed population against ICE.

If i really have to spell out the specific implications and meanings of anything I write, so you don’t move goalposts every other comment, i’d rather withdraw from this utterly pointless exercise.

Bro i specifically wrote “NO civil war is breaking out”

IDK why you’re struggling so much to misconstrue the very brief points that I made.

Global politics do affect the globe btw

Exactly, thanks!

The fuck are you on about? Civil wars happen regardless of the population being armed or not. See Myanmar.

is this a strawman or just intentionally obtuse?

Cause in the states it’s getting that way soon.

sure, maybe. probably not, but maybe.

That’s not how that works at all.

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and just see what you are fed by your local news.

aaahh there we go, conspiratorial anti “the media” shit that i usually expect from the good ol 2A crowd.

Notice how no civil war is breaking out.
Notice how nobody wants to start a shootout with armed forces?
Notice how the only real world impact of civvies arming themselves is more civvies die?

I’m from a country with sensible gun laws and no gestapo snatching people off the streets. yet we still take to the streets in protest of a far right party blasting past constitutional lines - they’re currently under investigation and potentially to be banned in the future.

All without posturing as armed defenders of democracy watching it’s downfall from the sidelines.

I think it’s more that they cosy up to tyranny because they are spineless hanger-ons.

It’s not that people relied on the right to fight anything - it’s more the fact that none of these manlyman hero “good guys with a gun” ever step up.
The whole point of the criticism of 2A is that every single argument for it is bullshit with no basis in the real world.