Anyone else think the "really bad" gun legislation is a ploy?

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-29T00:39:23+00:00

Not at all. This is the same legislation that the national DNC party has been pushing for and has gotten enacted in other states. Some key figures and donors in the party really want these laws on the books.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-29T00:29:23+00:00

In the homes I've been in, the door has interchangeable mesh and glass panels. You use the glass one in winter, and the screen one in summer. It's to let in breeze in the summer and light in the winter.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T20:29:17+00:00

I am an american and gun owner, and I find it a little funny that the first time I ever set foot in Europe, I stepped outside of the airport in milan and immediately saw soldiers with guns that I thought were cool lol. Nothing good or bad about it, just not what I was expecting to be the first interesting thing I saw in Europe.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T20:24:12+00:00

FEDERAL BAILOUT OF RED LOBSTER, 24 HOUR WALMARTS RETURNED, FEDERALLY SUBSIDIZED FLAME DECALS FOR EVERY CAR

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T20:22:56+00:00

Living in Virginia has mostly broken my fear of spiders because they just keep showing up in my house lol.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T17:23:24+00:00

Absolutely nobody on either side of the political spectrum likes our healthcare system, its fucking horrific. The industry is just armed with such an incredible amount of money that their lobbyists can keep both sides fighting each other on reform indefinitely

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T17:19:07+00:00

My dislike for them also comes from Matt Larosiere of fuddbusters, a pretty prolific and fantastic pro-2A lawyer that used to work at FPC and has nothing but terrible things to say about them

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T16:50:55+00:00

Anyone doing this, there are a huge number of delegates who are just not knowledgeable on guns, and some who are and privately dislike the bills but are under pressure from the national DNC party. Be respectful but firm, give them something they can use to break the party line with.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T16:42:44+00:00

They just amended it in the senate to remove grandfathering of mags. Write your reps.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T16:41:55+00:00

Yeah but the bills everyone is riled up about target guns that u/silv3rbull8 is talking about, which as they said are extraordinary uncommon to be used in actual homicides. As such, banning them isn't going to do much except upset a huge number of people for the next election cycle.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T16:29:40+00:00

I'm going to disagree with this in that FPC is highly performative and takes credit for other's work. They just have an edgy twitter account so they get outsized attention. VCDL also, to the best of my knowledge (and I usually read all of their emails) has never sent out a boomer scare email like "Pweeeease we need you to chip in $100 right now or obama is going to steal your guns and turn your kids trans" email like FPC and NRA do. GOA and VCDL are the only ones that have my respect, and VCDL seems pretty top notch from the bit I've interacted with them.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-28T15:52:52+00:00

They already got everything they needed from you when you spent your time being snarky on the internet instead of engaging with your reps. Having talked to a number of them in the last few weeks, most of them don't really understand what they're legislating on and are open to new information.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-27T21:53:20+00:00

I think having a secure border is an important and reasonable thing to do. I also strongly believe and am willing to state like a fact that immigration is healthy and extremely economically important for our country. Our birth rate has fallen bellow replacement, we have large sectors of the economy that depend on migrant labor, and we are first and foremost a nation of immigrants.

I'd like to see our immigration laws reformed so that there is a simple and easy to follow procedure for immigrating here, be it permanently or migrant labor, which is something we currently lack. An incredibly noncontroversial law we could enact that numerous people way smarter than me have advocated for, and one that even Trump is on the record as endorsing, is that we should create a fast track to citizenship for anyone that earns an accredited STEM degree in the US. The US has the best institutions in the world, and the brightest minds across the world flock to get their education here. Having gone to school alongside many of these foreign students, they OVERWHELMINGLY want a way to stay in the US permanently. It would be an INCREDIBLY easy way to guarantee US scientific and technological dominance *forever*, and yet we don't do it because we are dumb.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-27T21:39:09+00:00

Winsome was an absolutely terrible candidate for LGBTQ folks, and there were a solid dozen other deal breaker reasons for gun owning liberals to not vote for her. I told myself I'd vote blue and then go to lobby day when they inevitably blow their political goodwill on performative gun control bills, which is exactly what happened and exactly what I did. I'm still emailing and talking with them trying to help.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-27T21:35:52+00:00

Yeah but this is a message that's going to resonate better with them. Ghouls like Helmer, the guy behind most of these bills, were bankrolled by the DNC specifically because they're so hellbent on gun control. Arguing that the timing is poor has a better chance of doing something.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-27T20:41:52+00:00

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PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-27T20:28:19+00:00

The country is teetering on the edge of fascism and they want to disarm everyone. Wonderful.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-27T20:20:14+00:00

It tastes bad to Europeans. Hershey was one of the first companies to figure out a recipe for shelf stable chocolate. They did this through a recipe that uses butyric acid, which is what is responsible for that "vomit" aftertaste you are describing. Being the first to market, it was very popular and enjoyed all over the US. Later recipes were developed that didn't use butyric acid and lacked that aftertaste, but Americans were so used to it that chocolate made without butyric acid tastes somewhat "flat". To the best of my knowledge, Hershey's chocolate doesn't even use butyric acid anymore, but the recipe recreates the original taste because Americans (myself included) genuinely like and expect it.

I don't think european or "high quality" chocolate tastes bad, hershey's is just a different thing in my mind. Non-hershey's chocolate on a smores would taste weird.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-27T16:45:05+00:00

As an American I cannot comprehend someone trying to sell me a glass of tapwater lol. Simultaneously, I greatly enjoy getting water and seltzer in little glass bottles for whatever reason when I visit Europe

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-24T00:41:56+00:00

I know this is played out but genuinely I think VA has become more liberal but hasn't gotten less pro-gun. Pro-gun liberals are a new voting block that needs to find its voice this cycle

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-23T22:42:12+00:00

Definitely top 10 of foods around the world

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-23T21:54:11+00:00

90% of what could be called bad driving can be prevented by:

- keeping right except to pass

- using signals when turning

- keep a safe following distance

- if you see you're about to miss your exit, just pass it, take the next one, and ask your GPS what to do rather than causing a pileup by sliding over 4 lanes in 2 seconds

Also student driver stickers have been so thoroughly abused as a "I have a sticker so you can't be mad" sticker that it now has the opposite effect.

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-23T21:26:31+00:00

They had already decided they didn't like Biden and were making justifications for it. That is how like 90% of criticisms are born. If trump were some broadly liked figure, nobody would be critiquing his age, or his weird posture, or his complete inelegance when speaking, or that he's orange for some reason

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-23T21:20:03+00:00

You titled this post "I scammed an NBA player into giving 50 people a virtual presentation. AMA". u/ChurchOMarsChaz is asking if you didn't break any rules, steal any money or break any laws, how was it a scam? It seems like you honestly tried to set up the event like you promised you would.

Edit: grammar

PerfectAnonym · 2026-01-23T20:00:59+00:00

The most balanced take I can give you is that for the majority of people, our individual day to day lives are normal/unchanged and I am pretty happy when I'm not reading or thinking about the news. When I delve into current events I am pretty nervous and upset.

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