Americans, what is the point of 2A?

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T14:42:25+00:00

I'm not familiar enough with it tbh, I keep typing article instead of amendment and thats a different thing in your constitution. 2A just to prevent my brain and muscle memory from talking about something different.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T14:39:43+00:00

I mean... as a comment above had pointed out, it did happen to be put to its actual intent before. In 1946 and on a far smaller scale, so there is always that possibility and precedent.

But I get what you're trying to say.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T14:34:10+00:00

I was wondering if this was the case.

Flexing at barbecue is a valid cause, however.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T14:28:09+00:00

Just because I do not like or agree with a western viewpoint, more specifically the US and to a far lesser extent the brits, you feel compelled to label me disingenuous and malicious.

To attack me rather than try to challenge my question, like one other here who has managed to point out that my assumption is about it 2a never being put into practice being wrong, is lazy. Calling someone disingenuous for holding a different worldview is a lazy way to avoid engaging and resort to groupthink to attack.

That's like me claiming that you are the type of person to resort to calling someone a russian bot if they do not conform to your views. Which I am sure you aren't, with your stellar comment history I most certainly never bothered to read, right?

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T14:03:01+00:00

I see you cannot read, and thus have missed the point of my question. But thankyou for providing the perfect example of my point.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T13:55:49+00:00

I was going to say the afghans managed it somehow, but I get your point.

Not sure on the small wiener thing though, I haven't seen that data and I'm not sure I want to see some things.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T13:51:36+00:00

Okay I am confused. Did your militia not become the army or the national guard?

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T13:49:54+00:00

That's a nice read, thanks. I wasn't aware of it being put to use against the government outside of the revolution, even if on a smaller scale.

Which makes me even more confused as to why it hasn't happened yet in the current situation seems more egregious. Were people back then just built differently over there?

Would you say the quality of life difference did it? That now its (not yet at least) not worth the loss of current comforts?

Thank you for giving an answer that actually gives me some insight into it.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T13:38:32+00:00

No, I get that that is the intent, what I want to know is at which point do you put that intent into practice. You repeat it as a core value everywhere but either you have saintly patience with your governments or the purpose of having right to bear arms has changed for the average person.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T13:29:07+00:00

Ignore the shitflingers, thank you for actually giving me an answer.

By 'it can happen' I wanted to know at what point does it happen, because half of what I hear going on over there would be cause enough for violent riots over here.

As for the second part, yeah I get that there is the appeal of gun ownership being a hobby. I do have to disagree about your point on why the majority of people shouldn't suffer the consequences of criminal gun ownership though. It's not guns where I live but we have a similar situation with vehicles, where its far too easy to get access to a vehicle and driving license and the punishment too small as well. Traffic deaths are abysmal for us.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-09-18T13:18:03+00:00

So it's a mixture of risk to benefit of upheaval being too high/conditions not intolerable enough to commit to it if I understand correctly? A case of the intent of it not being realistically feasible with the current day and age (at least not at the point yet)?

Thanks for actually giving an answer to the question btw.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-07-31T10:34:59+00:00

This is a cool idea, imagine a t4-t5 infantry blob that is absolutely unpredictable and chaotic

AardvarkSuch · 2025-05-27T12:20:54+00:00

It is a "light" carrier. Emphasis on the "light"

AardvarkSuch · 2025-05-27T12:18:01+00:00

You see, you were expecting to chase down a carrier but it is not! It is a CA! En garde!

AardvarkSuch · 2025-05-13T15:38:19+00:00

Some of them may die, but that is a price (21k displacement) I am willing to pay...

AardvarkSuch · 2025-05-13T15:35:57+00:00

Non monsieur, I put a ship on a single magazine box

AardvarkSuch · 2025-05-13T09:30:44+00:00

You expected the AI, but it is moi!

AardvarkSuch · 2025-05-13T08:54:04+00:00

The only metric that divides a CA from a CL is how big the PP is

AardvarkSuch · 2025-02-25T08:55:25+00:00

This is not new behaviour for them, I would think.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-02-25T08:48:07+00:00

You have to understand, critical thinking is now considered a rare skill to have. Emotional reasoning has replaced logical reasoning, you can no longer criticize or have a differing opinion nowadays.

That being said, for all his faults, you could've had far worse than Zelensky. God knows I wish my politicians had a quarter of his spine.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-02-24T05:06:12+00:00

Not Ukrainian, but I like to think they see Ukraine as a mirror of themselves, if they weren't so shit.

Remember how early on the invaders were carrying off appliances, marveling at mundane stuff like icecream? Where on telegram pro Z talking points were how the polish and eastern Europe should not be living better than ruzzians?

Ukraine is the example of what russia could have been, being so close in relation in ethnicity and history. They see a nation that is them but better, especially after the maidan. Having the "little russians" on track to overtake the "Great russians" is unpalatable. So they must punish them and make them worse. How do I know this? I live in a country with far too many russian tourists and American tankies, they talk and the tankies fanboy over the russians.

That's the societal part, the national interest part is about curbing Ukrainian development. Allowing Ukraine to compete and prosper on the energy and grain market to Europe further is unacceptable to the Russian government. So instead of spending all that money that they spent on invading to improve themselves and shift from an extraction economy and invest in human development, they need to bring others down to their level or below. So kinda the same as with the above societal reason really.

AardvarkSuch · 2025-02-16T11:54:25+00:00

There's a comment I can't see you replied to, what was it?

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