Good on you for being so helpful. You’re what’s good about this community. ❤️

Project 2025 = guns are good, and lots of 'em

(Sarcastically) Finally, an unexpectedly bipartisan opinion!

I imagine they had it in their heads that all of those left-of-fascist are cowering hoplophobes who won’t defend themselves when abused.

This will bite them in the ass, hopefully soon before or after the tsunami of “find out” from their other ideas does.

I’m of the firm belief that our current society’s issue with weapons is based in a distinct and highly politicized lack of education and sense of responsibilities around them.

The more we educate and train as a community, the better prepared we’ll be to protect ourselves and our neighbors, and the more the the blowhard cowards who need a big bad boss to do their thinking for them will think twice.

“Nobody cared who I was until I put on the mask.”

I guess the notion that anyone would go near him voluntarily. That part never ceases to shock and disgust.

Let’s leverage the full capabilities of these “tools” to stalk, analyze, and publish whatever it finds on this little CEO, and see how “patriotic” he’s feeling after like a week.

It’s all “smart investing” and “patriotism” as long as it’s used on somebody else.

Real patriotism would be mercilessly stamping out threats to The People’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

Threats that these asshats and their toys embody without question.

Well they can but they’ll sound stupid

I wish this mattered to them. It hasn’t stopped them so far lol.

parents should be put in charge of their own kids,

So convenient that governments and their corporate masters take such a keen interest in watching our kids, after making all their parents spend most of their lives at miserable jobs.

On your feet, comrade. This is no place to die.

They basically treated it like every U.S involved conflict in recent history.

Commit tons of resources, suffer massive casualties, give up and go home declaring an empty victory.

Indeed. I haven’t felt good when I’ve voted for a long time. =\

I bet they’d have voted differently if they needed SNAP and had to get a “marketplace” healthcare plan.

Our “public servants” cannot represent us when they’re a part of their own elite, untouchable socioeconomic class.

Incredibly helpful, thank you.

As a Nevadan, I’m friggin’ furious over the sheer spinelessness displayed by these so called “representatives.”

because thats how cowardly MAGAs would behave

I wish! Every time a MAGA gets busted for something terrible or ruins themselves, they end up with published ghostwritten books full of their whining and excessive airtime on FOX News and various nutter podcasts. Lol

But yes what these lawyers are doing sounds FAR more productive and that’s awesome. :D

Jail? At this point?

Their crimes against humanity have far exceeded that, and this entire administration exists at all so their pedo hitler can dodge jail.

If there’s any justice, their regime will be facing a pockmarked wall, or the end of a rope.

“Uh, Pam, there’s some shit on your nose again.”

For one I agree with you. I hate how fast everything is going to shit too but I still have hope and want to avoid mass bloodshed and conflict. If there’s a legal way to take these monsters to the gallows, we should pursue every avenue.

It’s always so brave and impressive that these revolutionaries have the time to stoke violent insurrection on Lemmy whilst they’re serving on the front lines of the rebellion themselves! Such dedication to the cause.

They haven’t freaking learned from their dumbass hyperbolic rhetoric, have they?

“It’s a war” “It’s us against tHeM” “ThEy’re coming for us and we gotta fight ThEm”

Everything is a “war” and a “conflict” and some self-righteous last stand for them. Usually to take over something or rob someone or otherwise violate others.

This rhetoric breeds unhinged insanity. And sometimes that insanity they drum up turns around and manifests at lethally high velocity like it did with Kirk.

And they KEEP DOING IT.

We really need to keep pointing and laughing and asking in earnest “Why the hell are you so WEIRD?”

This is why I’ve considered an idea for all those cities occupied by our own troops right now…

I’m thinkin’, everybody should get really buddy buddy with the troops. Take the kids to meet them. Give them water bottles on a hot day. Make smalltalk. Ask about their families. Get on a first name basis. No ulterior or subversive motives, like legit BEFRIEND these people.

The way fascists justify turning the military on anyone is dehumanization.

Maybe Corporal Huggins could be ultimately convinced to attack “Those rebellious protesters.” But is he going to be as willing to fix his rifle on “Armin, that guy who always asks how I’m doing” and “Barbara, who brought us donuts that one time”, or “George, whose little boy Eric thought I looked so cool and thanked me for keeping the city safe”?

It’s stupid that they’re there. They mostly think so too, and if we bond over that, I think it could increase the chances of better outcomes when the orange Caligula escalates his insanity.

Winning a population with “hearts and minds” can work both ways.

The hellspawn in office are counting on us to cower and keep to ourselves, or violently lash out and justify death in return. Either way they would get what they want.

Who knows, I’m just daydreaming here but maybe eventually we’d even get the military’s support in rocking the absolute shit out of ICE if they catch a van of LARPing terrorists coming to drag their friends away.

We need to solidify our bonds as human Americans, before these filthy outsider monsters that captured some cushy chairs succeed in turning us violently on each other when we should be coming for them.

(agh, double post. Redacting. Lol)

a job that refused to pay me overtime after a year of working for them as the sole employee/manager of the shop.

Wow, like they would force you to work just under the limit to qualify for overtime, or wouldn’t pay overtime owed? Because that’s straight up wage theft!

I notice businesses that try to be “savvy” by taking shortcuts and skirting labor laws tend to collapse themselves once they run out of employees that are way too good for them and won’t put up with it anymore.

Glad you escaped.

I wish that was still as valid, but sheesh, these days operating for years on a massive loss with zero profits and empty promises is a Silicon Valley standard.

You’d have to convince enough investors that it was just a big cash black hole that was going nowhere.