• kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I really dislike this dumbass meme and it just gets worse the longer it’s been around. Letting rednecks have guns creates a lot of our problems. Letting Christians be Christians creates a lot of our problems. America is about freedom? Tell that to Black people. Tell that to immigrants. Shit, tell that to people who aren’t immigrants but who are having their citizenship challenged because they’re the wrong shade. Tell that to women and trans people who need healthcare. America is about freedom for some and not for others, and this meme is for the some.

  • vortic@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Why the focus on Christians in particular? There are a lot more religions in the US than just Christianity.

    Also, a lot fewer people would have something against Christians if Christians quit trying to infringe on everyone else’s rights. Gay marriage, abortion, and unnumerable other things are only an issue because Christians make it one.

    Before anyone says it, yes, I know that’s not all Christians, but it is the “Christians” controlling the government right now. The kind of Christian who doesn’t understand or care about the teachings of Jesus.

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        22 days ago

        To me it reads as a right-wing attempt at being inclusive while still saying that Christians and gun owners are being persecuted just as much as the rest of these groups.

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    22 days ago

    Guns equating to freedom is straight up NRA propaganda. Do we really think people in Australia, the UK, and Japan are oppressed by tyranny?

    The 2nd is the only “right” that the lowest government official can execute you for exercising. That’s what passes for freedom in America?

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      22 days ago

      This is one of those things where there is a workable middle ground.

      There isn’t anything inherently wrong with gun ownership, but it should be heavily regulated and require a license which to acquire, requires that you prove you have a fundamental level of safety.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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      22 days ago

      Do we really think people in Australia, the UK, and Japan are oppressed by tyranny?

      i-think-that Yes obviously because they are states, and they impose capitalist economies on their subjects anarchy

      The 2nd is the only “right” that the lowest government official can execute you for exercising.

      Nah, the lowest government official might execute you for exercising any right or none at all, especially if you’re Black or Indigenous. AmeriKKKa

  • So, I’m queer. I live in California.

    I saw young people moving in downstairs and left a care package of shit you always forget the first few times you move in by their front door, and a bunch of granola bars, a loaf of fresh bread, so they didn’t strictly need to go out for the first few days after they moved in while they were unpacking most intensely. Basic courtesy shit. Regretting that now.

    Theres like a metal girder or something in the wall, conducts sound up and down like crazy. If I put my ear to it, I can just about guess the position of anyone walking and hear every conversation within like two floors on this half of the building. Its also where the network cable comes in to my apartment. Natural spot for my computer shit.

    Turns out theyre christofascists. They think people like me are monsters who need to be exterminated. I’m not really down for that. Not my first run in with this shit. Considering leaving, definitely being stompy.

    Oh and the care package wasn’t ‘our neighbors are nice’ or ‘people can be good’ but ‘god provides, this is one of our little rewards’. They kept talking about the fucking bread.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      21 days ago

      yeah those are just shitty people. that sucks.

      definitely don’t feel bad about treating them like shit, though.

      • Christianity’s a pretty good indicator for being a piece of shit stuffed into a human skin suit. Exceptions mostly for older African americans. I’ve been abused and persecuted by these bastards since before my parents threw me away.

        Point is we cannot all get along, because some of us want to exterminate others of us.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    The Revolutionary War was about expansionism, land grabbing (stealing) and money. Freedom was last thing in the minds of the people who controlled the colonial war effort.