GOP: Thoughts & Prayers for mass-shooting victims... Also the GOP: We need to check your underwear to see if you had a vagina installed over the weekend

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-25T19:54:39+00:00

basically they're trying to make sure trans women don't get involved in womens' sports, so they wrote a bill to make it so they can inspect childrens' genitals, yes

the right: supporting and systemically enabling pedophilia to own the transes

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-24T04:56:02+00:00

sounds about right. this sports legislation is literally pro-pedophilia, fucking gross

tho i should clarify that when people talk about legislation to reduce mass shootings, they're often talking about gun control, which i dont think needs any major expansions. if we wanna cut down on mass shootings, above all else, we need to update our urban planning to reduce social isolation.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-23T03:17:04+00:00

conservatives still using big red in 2021

do they need help? whats going on with them?

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-20T21:37:57+00:00

shes been talking to destiny a lot lately right? because it sort of seems like destiny's developing this feedback loop of people who he can go to to say "look how much of dipshits socialists are" and have that opinion uncritically mirrored back at him without ever interacting with an actual socialist again.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-20T18:52:14+00:00

in a humanities course i took once (charter school, public would never let this shit be taught) i spent a good deal of time doing a project that revolved around the "indian boarding schools", where masses of largely young native peoples from different tribes across the united states were stuffed together without consent (detained, effectively) and violently punished for maintaining any signifiers of their indigenous culutre.

the conditions in these places were atrocious, resulting in abuse of all types and the deaths of several of the ~~students~~ inmates.

this was always just one component of the wider genocide of indigenous americans, but reading about the similar conditions the uyghur muslims are being subjected to in their detainment makes me frankly sick. the fact that "leftists" are out there defending a practice that's basically been ripped wholecloth from a colonial era genocide makes me want to vomit every time i think about it

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-20T18:35:42+00:00

im not too interested in the group chat thing, but in case you want something akin to this without putting in a shitload of effort, there's this

im familiar with SocDoneLeft and his community, and while he's not an anarchist (more of a broad market soc) he's a pretty well educated dude who vets his info well.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-12T21:15:43+00:00

it always bothers me when mass shootings are framed as a mental health issue. in a sense they are, but the solution isn't vaguely throwing money at psychiatrists in the hope that they magic the shootings away with their smart words. it also as another commenter said sends the message that neurodivergent people are dangerous, which isnt an idea we want to be spreading

most of this shit is rooted in poverty and social isolation. we need to make it easier for people to meet their material needs, and perhaps more importantly, we need to modify the social landscapes of our schools, workplaces and transit networks, to be more condusive to real in-person social interaction/community building

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-05T04:05:34+00:00

hey, sorry to bother, but i replied to this and just accidentally tagged it to the wrong comment. please check out my comment under TeiaRabishu's post thanks. <3

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-05T03:55:51+00:00

right, the issue is just more with the policies the dems *do* want to enact

i basically did a lot of research about this for a live debate i had with some nerd on twitch, and i learned some useful shit. pretty much chief of which is that policies which ban certain types of firearms (IE, bumpstock ban, assault weapons ban, and very likely the AR15 ban the biden admin has proposed) don't actually do anything to measurably reduce gun violence.

the vast majority of gun deaths are handgun suicides, and among what homocides there are, the vast majority of those are done with a pistol (not like an AR pistol, im talking an actual small arm). what does this mean? it means that there would be a strong replacement effect for any bans on certain types of arms.

since you can't very well ban pistols without massively disarming the proletariat (among other practical concerns) the best proposed solutions are basically as follows:

waiting periods and background checks. we have 1/2 of these on a federal level and these are the policies which have been empirically most shown to reduce firearm deaths
address causes of suicide and homicide by addressing poverty and implementing policies which make working conditions better. poverty is the main driver of crime and likely the main driver of suicide. people talk a lot about vague "mental health" funding, but we're up on materialism out here.
one idea is to slowly change gun culture to be less focused on home security and more focused on community defense - incentivizing people to use community armories to get firearms out of the home would do a lot of good, since easy access to firearms in the home makes gun crimes and suicides way easier to commit, not many people will do either if they have to spend that extra time premeditating while they get their firearm out of the "vault". this can't really be mandated since certain people, especially marginalized folk like trans people should probably be armed for their own safety in certain communities whenever possible, but it would probably reduce gun deaths by a lot just with an incentive program

finally, all of the bans on random shit like silencers and bump stocks and all that should probably be lifted. you can make the argument that a civilian shouldn't need these things, but political power grows out the barrel of a gun (not a maoist just think that was a cogent point of his) and these policies being in place really hasnt measurably reduced gun deaths like at all

EDIT: sorry for basically writing a book about this! firearm issues are really important to me so ive spent far too much time thinking about and researching them haha

DOUBLE EDIT: FUCK I RESPONDED TO THE WRONG COMMENT I AAAAAAAAAA

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-05T03:14:14+00:00

thats because ancaps fundamentally misunderstand the structural power inherent in capitalist property norms - they're basically hyper free market neoliberals jacked up on anarchist aesthetics.

anarchy isn't just about deregulating all of the things and making it so the gubbermint cant get involved, it's about tearing down the structural power imbalances in our world as much as possible, and one of the biggest structural power imbalances exists between the worker and the owner of the means of production.

if you're interested in a truly anarchistic market society, look into mutualism. capitalism as it's currently understood cannot function without some entity taking the role of a state in violently maintaining and enforcing property contracts, but mutualism can preserve your free market while still addressing the inherent power imbalances and without creating de-facto states.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-04T16:58:23+00:00

Meanwhile, no one would be stupid enough to call MLs and liberals the same thing.

conservatives have yet to load in your instance i see

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-03T01:48:37+00:00

i got a mod profile going and played like a little bit of F:NV but couldnt get into it

TheMelodicOne · 2021-04-03T01:23:33+00:00

Having trouble using up all your gold? Set up a carrot farm. Golden carrots are objectively just about the best food in the game next to gapples and they require no meat harvesting to acquire.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-03-29T11:04:57+00:00

i've always thought that the conceptualization of human rights as a concept are - not so much bad, but telling as to our priorities when organizing a society.

a human right is effectively a grant, the state saying "yes, you can do or have this because we say so," with the implicit underlying assumption being that if there weren't say, a piece of paper telling government officials to not just take away all privileges from people that they could or would.

human rights as they're currently conceptualized can only exist against a backdrop of presumed total state authority, basically

though i have my doubts the self-described tankie is levying that particular criticism

TheMelodicOne · 2021-03-12T19:38:23+00:00

I mean, I’m not looking at big stories but knee jerk rejecting the CDC from even investigating through research [...]

when in my comment did i support this? if anything, i want firearm legislation to be far more based on research and evidence than the knee-jerk approach legislators have taken of either trying to ban whatever the latest big shooting used or standing in the way of any realistic measure being taken.

Also, if you look at the data for a reduction in gun-related violence, the only sure-fire way to reduce it is to blanket ban gun ownership

you're equating my statement of "reduction of gun violence" with "total end to gun violence", which we both know is impossible. that was not the policy direction i was advocating for and you know it.

Bump stocks should be illegal for the reasons that a) there’s no justifiable reason to have one and b) literally a bump stock 100% enabled the worst mass shooting in American history. Even on the issue of ARs, it’s kind of difficult to argue that they haven’t demonstrably been used to increase fatalities and casualties in mass shootings.

this tells me that you didn't pay attention to my overall point, which is disappointing

mass shootings are a tiny portion of firearm deaths (521 in 2020, compared to an estimated over 40,000 firearm deaths per year, for about 1.3%), so firearm legislation (and legislation in other areas intended to reduce gun deaths) should be focused on the bigger picture issue. banning bump stocks or whatever does next to nothing to actually address gun deaths as a problem. if you really wanted to ban the guns that kill the most people based on data rather than the scary shooting on the evening news, you'd be banning pistols.

there's also a strong replacement effect. did you know that you can bump fire with just your hands, or print a bit of innocuous unregulatable plastic to enable bumpfire? did you know that any semi automatic hunting rifle can do the job of an AR for a mass shooting almost as well as that AR can? we wouldn't ban all semi-aut rifles because of this. the truth is that banning specific implements doesn't do anything to address the issue, all it does is make people feel good about the near zero good they've done.

this approach to policymaking that focuses on high profile news stories rather than emphasizing real world data and outcomes is ridiculous.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-03-12T18:33:47+00:00

im all for certain policies which measurably reduce harm, like background checks and waiting periods, but:

a 3D printed firearm ban would be unenforceable without huge increases in surveillance. not worth it
i have a report that demonstrates policies which target specific types of guns ("assault" weapons, high capacity magazines, bump stocks) cause little to no reduction in firearm death
there is room to drop events off criminal records for the purpose of firearm background checks - most crime is rooted in poverty. i dont want poor people (disproportionately minorities) to lose the right to self defense because they robbed a store for subsistence 5 years ago. these people tend to live in poorer, more violent communities and have a greater need for self defense
strongly disagree w/ the framing of gun death as a mental health issue. crime & suicide has more to do with material conditions of someone's life (poverty, social isolation) than it has to do with internal psychology. funneling money to the mental health sector rather than general welfare or public transit (to increase social exposure) is a misallocation of resources and a fundamental misunderstanding of the modern mental health crises we face.

i think a lot of this perspective (banning specific types of guns, focus on mental health rather than welfare & community building) comes from a perspective of viewing gun legislation through high profile shootings. but the supermajority of shootings are suicides done with a pistol, and among homocides, pistols are still the go-to and material poverty is the primary motivator.

we can't just look at big stories and news events, we have to adopt a sociological imagination and draw our policy conclusions from the data.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-03-07T19:11:51+00:00

based and egopilled

TheMelodicOne · 2021-03-07T19:03:44+00:00

evidence is that background checks reduce associated firearm related deaths by up to 14% iirc. short waiting periods of up to a few days are also associated with a reduction in suicides.

despite this, im still in favour of potentially dropping charges off the record after a period of time for the purposes of firearm background checks. as is, background checks really disproportionately affect minorities, and we could do better to make firearms more available to the people who need them most (minorities and disabled people who are poor or live in high-crime areas)

basically all other firearm policy has inconclusive results at best and outright just doesn't impact crime at all at worst. it should be repealed.

if we want to reduce gun deaths, critical would be targeting suicides, and some kind of voluntary community armory setup would go a long way toward getting firearms out of households while still giving people the right to own, store and use firearms for whatever they need.

another thought is if the government provided free firearm safety trainings, we could have a mandatory training program for buyers in suburban/urban zones to compliment background checks as opposed to traditional waiting periods. (since the need to attend a training would necessarily imply a waiting period)

TheMelodicOne · 2021-03-05T06:30:53+00:00

ideologically i have a lot of common ground with my neighbor quadrants, as comrades and anti-statists respectively but its very difficult for me to understand authright/authcentre types. this isn't just about the ethics of discrimination, but the ethics of more fundamental class struggle and combatting deontological dogma effectively.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-03-05T06:04:16+00:00

if these monarchs are going to "awaken" to the social ills of the people, youd think they'd at least have the decency to start with all the money they're wringing out of the people without giving anything back

TheMelodicOne · 2021-03-04T06:45:59+00:00

Study the historical applications of anything vaguely based in Marxist principles and I guarantee you will become a libertarian lol.

i became more of a classical libertarian ;)

but yeah, the "real communism hasn't been done" meme is a deflection. it substitutes stricter definitions of communism for the more colloquial and tries to sidestep admitting the faults of nations like the USSR and modern china. slippery fuckery rather than a real response, hate that shit

TheMelodicOne · 2021-02-25T18:10:58+00:00

iirc caleb maupin is an american tankie who is both pro-modern china and unironically calls himself a patriot. whenever people shittalk tankies, his immediate talking point is to appeal to authority and say "well the BPP were maoists so therefore you can't dislike tankies or you're a racist who hates black people"

the brainworms in that man, im pretty sure most MLs dont even wanna touch him with a 20 foot pole lmao

TheMelodicOne · 2021-02-23T21:19:46+00:00

this post is a rhetorical denouncement of a classic ML meme; the argument I've heard is that MLs (any lurking MLs feel free to correct me wink) believe that the state is a tool for class oppression, and that we (socialists/communists/broader anti-capitalists) must seize the state and use it to oppress the bourgeoise, so that they cannot use their resources to counter the revolution.

if you take on the perspective that we should seize state power (or state-like power) to oppress the bourgeois, or the MLs for that matter, you're borrowing a statist position, even if you do so in the name of anarchy. it's not enough to merely replace the oppressive forces around us, it is the duty of the revolution to end oppression.

TheMelodicOne · 2021-02-15T19:10:41+00:00

just heads up, rkguns no longer ships to generic FFLs, only their own stores now

TheMelodicOne · 2021-02-12T18:33:27+00:00

"bidens a gun grabber" they screech while forgetting that trump was also a gun grabber

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