• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    FYI:

    Libs of TikTok is a handle for various far-right[a] and anti-LGBT[b] social-media accounts operated by Chaya Raichik (/ˈxɑːjə ˈraɪtʃɪk/ KHAH-yə RY-chik),[10] a former real estate agent.[11][12][13] Raichik uses the accounts to repost content created by left-wing and LGBT people on TikTok, and on other social-media platforms, often with hostile, mocking, or derogatory commentary.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libs_of_TikTok

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    17 days ago

    I’m pretty anti-gun despite being on the left, but I think I’ve seen this person at protests before and if anyone’s gonna have a gun I’d prefer it be them over anyone else.

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      17 days ago

      I’m in favor of regulating guns, and I feel like keeping one on my person / in my living space actually increases my risk of injury. However, I also think it’s a good idea to know how to violently resist if necessary. (I have shot pistols, shotguns, and rifles before.) And, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people of any political persuasion to have access to armaments in case they need to “fertilize the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants”.

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        17 days ago

        I’ve read that having a gun in your house does increase your risk of being shot. That being said, I understand that having guns helped groups like the Panthers keep their communities safer. I don’t think they’ll help us most of the time in resisting a dictatorship, though. If we beat the fascists, I think more of it will come from sabotage, mass strikes, etc, as opposed to shooting.

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          Most gun owners believe that those statistics don’t apply to them. I believe they do apply to me (since I do live with a gun owner).

          I agree that resistance is unlikely to primarily take the form of infantry combat, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some communities do have to repel an armed force, which will be much more difficult without at least some community members having access to and proficiency with small arms.

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            I believe once you tease the causes behind the stats apart… you’ll find most leftists work to ameliorate those issues.

            Like firing pin buddies was something I first learned about in the SRA. Not my hunting club.

            And the no booze or intoxicants in use while firearms are out of cases.

            Etc etc

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            17 days ago

            Yeah, that’s fair. I usually don’t talk gun politics anyway because of all the insurmountable issues the US faces, that’s probably the most insurmountable.

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      17 days ago

      That’s why gun laws were put into place. Honkies got scared because black panthers were arming themselves against their racist shit.

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    17 days ago

    FUCK YES!! Arm the fuck up. The rights not correct about much but a good guy with a gun can indeed stop a bad guy with a gun

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      That is awesome. I have always felt pretty real sure that Guthrie’s guitar has never actually killed fascists

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        According to the Behind the Bastards about Guthrie (they always do a Christmas episode about a non-bastard), it was a standard thing to put on machines used to build stuff for the war.

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    17 days ago

    I’d be armed if my wife wasn’t so leery about firearms. She and my father-in-law are part of a ethnic minority that is specifically targeted by white supremacists and my state has active Nazi and Third Position groups. Given the way shit’s going, I want to be prepared for anything.

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      The only things that ever slowed the Nazis down was Russian winters and getting shot, and we’re all out of Russian winters.

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      17 days ago

      you should have a discussion about it, see if her views have changed since the election.
      Shits scary outside right now, wishing you the best of health ❤️

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    If this thing goes on for four years as it has gone for the last 2 weeks, there’s definitely going to be some mass shootings committed by trans people in USA.

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      I fully intend (and I’m aware of the risks of saying this online, I don’t care), to burn down government buildings if they actually declare war on Canada. Until then, I’ll keep to my peaceful protesting and spreading happiness and dissent at my workplace until there’s enough wiggle room for a union to show up

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        Hey bud.

        Don’t say incriminating things on social media just because you’re behind a username.

        The glowies are watching, and the Fediverse doesn’t really protect your anonymity in general while also being run by individuals who can be arrested and their servers seized without having a corporate oligarchy getting upset about it.

        And, just as a general rule:

        Do, or do not.

        Threat displays are for chimps.

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          As stated, I’m well aware of the risks involved with this kind of statement. Again, as stated, I’m not concerned.

          While this statement is a threat to my OpSec, my government is currently incapable of tying my name or identity to a phone number. By the time they start caring about my comment right here, I’ll have much bigger issues. (I know that claim sounds ridiculous but it’s actually been a regular hurdle in my life. My documents have been fucked up by so many different agencies that it’s very difficult to figure out who I am)

          Also, threat displays are not just for chimps. The cold war had real, tangible impacts on the world. Protects have real, tangible impacts on the world. Riots get things done too, but so do threats.

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    There’s are multiple leftist gun associations and they all have my full support (and the SRA has my membership).

    Unlike the MAGA lunatics, the left actually has something to protect: those who are under attack and are unable to protect themselves. The women and the LGBTQ+ people in our country NEED to be able to protect themselves because the government is obviously not interested in their safety.

    These organizations are not militias. We don’t plan attacks, we don’t conspire to subvert order. Our purpose is to train and protect those who need protection the most.

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        The Black Panthers and the insuing riots after the murder of MLK got blacks the right to vote. And led to the first sensible gun laws in US history.

        Nothing meaningfully improves until the rich fear for their lives.

        This is a historical fact for our Republic

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              Try looking up when “blacks” got the right to vote, and then maybe what the Civil Rights Movement was actually about, russki.

              It sure as fuck wasn’t “riots after MLK’s assassination”

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                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_assassination_riots

                The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising,[2] were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.

                Dr. King had campaigned for a federal fair housing law throughout 1966, but had not achieved it.[36] Senator Walter Mondale advocated for the bill in Congress, but noted that over successive years, a fair housing bill was the most filibustered legislation in US history.[37] It was opposed by most Northern and Southern senators, as well as the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Mondale commented that:

                A lot of [previous] civil rights [legislation] was about making the South behave and taking the teeth from George Wallace … This came right to the neighborhoods across the country. This was civil rights getting personal.

                The assassination and subsequent riots quickly revived the bill.[38][39][27][40] On April 5, Johnson wrote a letter to the United States House of Representatives urging passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act.[31] The Rules Committee, “jolted by the repeated civil disturbances virtually outside its door,” finally ended its hearings on April 8.[41] With newly urgent attention from White House legislative director Joseph Califano and Speaker of the House John McCormack, the bill—which was previously stalled that year—passed the House by a wide margin on April 10.[25]

                For some liberals and civil rights advocates, the riots were a turning point.

                The assassination and riots radicalized many, helping to fuel the Black Power movement.[42]

                In after the rise of the Black Panthers and the increased unity caused by the death of MLK the movement rallied together and kept pushing which led to integration the right to vote.

                As for calling me ruzzian, fuck you drag. I’ve seen you around here and you’re always spitting some dumb bootlicker shit.

                Grow a spine, grow up

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                  Lol, yeah, that’s what I’m known for, advocating peaceful protests and centrist positioning.

                  Your comment proved me right though, GJ on that?

                  Cya around, orc bot.