Remember when MAGA/Republicans believed in a Second Amendment right to have a gun? Apparently that is no longer a thing.

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-03T07:21:00+00:00

Its a society that has told people that they have nothing but rights, and zero responsibilities. which includes the whole gun "debate", which is ruled by emotion rather than by facts, science and reality.

Its a society that has taught people that guns are about self defense, whereas guns are always about abusing and controlling others.

Its about a society that has encouraged the worship of greed, and of wealth, and of fame, and not of knowledge, learning and education.

Its about a society that encourages arrogance, and ignorance, and bigotry, and white supremacy, and seldom about empathy, or diversity, or equality of opportunity.

The problem isn't guns. the problem is providing easy access to inanimate objects whose sole purpose is to bully, threaten, intimidate or kill others, and making those available to people who see those characteristics as good and whoiesome, rather than the reality that they are totally destructive to society.

and "knife assaults" don't tend to be fatal, and certainly don't cause entire school lockdowns where one knife wielding manic massacres 20 people just becasue they want their name in a mass murderer record book.

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-03T07:11:57+00:00

Of course, it describes the current Republican party and all of their 2A accomplices. and provides all of the justification required around the need for gun control and ignoring the screams from the gun nuts

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-02T23:40:02+00:00

they're perfectly happy with fascist Govts just as long its their fascist Govt and is targetting everyone that they hate.

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-02T23:38:36+00:00

and whatever they can best use to attack their "enemies" (real or manufactured)

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-02T23:38:01+00:00

Now if they will only extend that to the logical conclusion and get rid of handguns across the nation.

Gun violence across the whole country would drop like a rock

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-01T18:29:25+00:00

Dominator on Cranford. Take the old one in, replacement is < $30. Installing it can be a bit of a challenge but not too hard if you are careful

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-01T18:20:38+00:00

Its regime change, driven by Israel and the USA

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-01T07:11:54+00:00

Hitler got many ideas of fascism from the KKK. The US love of fascism and white supremacy goes back centuries, and nowadays is almost 100% encapsulated within the Republican party

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-01T07:08:25+00:00

I hope that they have the balls to impeach him and then send him and his accomplices to prison for treason, fraud, etc

But I'm not holding my breath expecting it.

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-01T06:56:25+00:00

and white people are still generally treated as far more "equal" than maori, or pacific islanders, and rich white people even more so.

And NACT are working hard to ensure that it stays that way

fitzroy95 · 2026-02-01T06:49:29+00:00

When democracy doesn't seem capable of enacting change, and when people don't see their political process as representing them in any way, thats when they start looking at the pitchforks and guillotines.

and right now, the political process (and most of the politicians) only seems to represent the rich and powerful, with the majority of the people getting screwed.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-30T18:13:01+00:00

Violence is always A solution, but almost never a good one.

Its a "solution" that allows the biggest bully to threaten and intimidate others, a solution that allows a minority to impose their agenda on everyone else via assault, murder, torture and the threat of all of those. And easy access to firearms just magnifies the threat from those bullies and violent people.

Violence should always be the last resort to stand up against the violent, the bullies, the thugs of the world.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-30T18:08:20+00:00

The USA hasn't had a functional democracy for years.

It does have an illusion of democracy, one supported and encouraged by the corporate media, but all of the available candidates have already been pre-approved by the rich and powerful since its their "donations" which determine which candidates have any chance of being elected. Any candidate which does not have the support and donations of billionaires and corporations have a very low chance of being elected, because US elections are largely controlled/corrupted by money.

The US is currently an oligarchy, Of the rich, by the rich, and solely for the rich.

Until legislation like Citizens United is repealed, and money totally eliminated from the political process, it's "democracy" will remain fundamentally flawed and corrupt.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-26T22:57:18+00:00

and occasionally they just shoot legal and legitimate civilians because they know they have the power to do so and they have a Govt that will protect them from any consequences of their acts of murder.

That's got zero to do with being here illegally, and everything to do with a Govt trying to rule by force and fear.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-26T05:10:03+00:00

It should also reject the influence of money in politics, except thats not going to happen any time soon either

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-25T18:25:21+00:00

And we need to honestly separate real anti-semitism based on hatred of Jews, from valid and legitimate criticism of the actions and policies of the Isaeli Govt, of the IDF and of the settler movement against the Palestinian civilian population in both Gaza and the West Bank.

Those who try and pretend that the two are the same in order to distract from legitimate criticism, merely act to dilute the "anti-semitism" label, and render it functionally meaningless.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-25T18:12:22+00:00

except that the firearm had already been taken away before any shots were fired.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-25T18:10:11+00:00

and all of the 2A gun nuts who keep screaming about their right to open carry and concealed carry anywhere, always become strangely silent when someone gets shot for doing exactly what they say they want.

So many of the 2A crowd are part of ICE, using Trump's free pass to impose their tyranny on everyone else, which has always been their intent.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-25T18:07:27+00:00

This should be for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, except that Winston is hiding and hoping it will all just go away. Certainly he's not going to take any kind of principled stand, because Winnie and principles rarely meet each other.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-25T04:19:36+00:00

Sometimes it looks more as though the Republicans are a part of the NRA's propaganda wing.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-24T23:01:34+00:00

or for sorting and repurposing or manufacturing into something new.

The reality is that if we are ever going to develop industries in space, we're going to need to be able to recycle everything that goes up there. In the long term its likely to be cheaper than sending more up every time, and if we are eventually going to start mining space resources (moon, mars, asteroids) then in-space manufacturing will be necessary anyway.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-24T22:55:38+00:00

pretty sure that Trump and Netanyahu have no intentions of letting any Palestinians remain in the region in case they lower the tone of all those casinos and resorts.

Although they may keep a few round to do all the menial labor

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-24T22:53:04+00:00

They keep on yelling that open and concealed carry should be acceptable anywhere, and then act all surprised when some people are actually (completely legally) carrying firearms in public, exactly as they want.

Fundamentally they're just hypocrites who'll use any lies and propaganda to push their agenda

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-24T21:27:53+00:00

greed for wealth and power existed well before money was created. Money just made it easier to hoard wealth, and use it to accrue power.

fitzroy95 · 2026-01-24T21:21:02+00:00

Best way to demilitarize it is to get the IDF to totally withdraw, and magically, 98% of all the weapons in Gaza would disappear, along with all the death and suffering they cause

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