I’m a magician in the sheets 😏 *pulls a rabbit out of my pussy*
LGBT people, I need you to know that any “pedophile execution bill” passed in the US is meant to put you, personally, to death. When the right says “groomer,” they’re talking about you. When they say “predator,” they’re talking about you. When they say “pedophile,” they’re talking about you. Any actual child sex abusers who are convicted and executed would be, to them, a happy accident, a cherry on top of a law that’s meant to exterminate anyone who deviates from the cisgender, heterosexual norm.
"but they can't possibly think we're all really child molesters"
if you haven't already figured out that facts don't matter to these people I don't know what to tell you
We 100% ought to be armed, but I'm really concerned about aspects of the broader trans/lefty gun culture that's sprung up. My general experience with it is that a lot of people think having a gun is a superpower that makes the indestructible and often people neglect to learn important skills surrounding shooting, like deescalation or even just carrying and practicing with non-lethal options. Very quickly people get sucked into the Gun Badass fantasy and begin posturing as some kind of commando, often because there are social rewards to doing so among people who are themselves not armed and informed.
What I keep thinking of is that thing from the other day where somebody drew a gun on a transphobic street preacher and shoved it in his face. A bunch of comments were like 'I don't want to hear any one say anything bad about this, they need to learn a lesson'. So there are a lot of people going out, buying a gun, not understanding even the tactical considerations of how brandishing a gun and not using it will 1) give up any element of surprise which is your strongest asset and 2) immediately make you into a target for anyone around you to shoot, otherwise assault, rob, or even just identify.
There's a lot of people who don't know what the hell they're talking about, being led by other people who don't know what the hell they're talking about, discounting a lot of extant information out there, and just acting on bad ideas. Everyone needs a quip, everyone needs a slogan, everyone needs some icon to present themself as a revolutionary hero for owning a gun and knowing how to operate it. And so many people fall for it, so many people reward that kind of behavior.
I also think of that woman whose photos have gone around recently, carrying the AK wearing a red beret and a remarkably wack plate carrier. She's been suggested to me as a friend on facebook by its algorithm. Her public account is plastered with photos of her at actions wearing her little hero costume, with the names of professional photographers who have taken cool pictures of her at actions, excerpts from articles she's been quoted in, names and photos of people she organizes with, her partners even. Basking in the glory of all these aesthetic signifiers suggesting she's some revolutionary hero, and just as many shibboleths to suggest she isn't.
Do not take yourself too seriously because you are an American with a gun. Gunfights always, 100% of the time, suck shit, and aren't cool, and you will never have a good time shot at. It should always be avoided if it can. It is unbelievably easy to get killed. Even if your splits are a consistent .12, even if you can drill dimes at 100 yards. The way you win a gunfight is by not being in one. Not puffing up your chest bigger than the other guy.
I live in a constitutional state with some very permissive gun laws. No registry, open carry most places, etc. no matter what, if you shoot someone, even if the law is on your side, you are going to jail until trial or bond is posted. Every time. I am armed and actively refining my skills and I pray every fucking day I never for a second have to use them. It is absolutely the last option, full stop. You can’t just buy a gun and be safer, that’s not how it works. A gun in the hands of anyone is dangerous, in the hands of an untrained individual it is perilous for themselves and anyone around them. Arm up, I’m encouraged my friends to as well, but understand it is a last resort, and a skill that needs to be learned, and even then it may not save you.
Call me old, but when I think about owning a gun, I immediately have flashbacks to the dad on Family Ties almost shooting his son.
I don't understand how or why we should 100% be armed.
I've always been taught that gun safety includes having a gun safe. In your home. Where the guns are kept, sans ammo, which is kept somewhere separate.
Over the past year, I've seen a lot of people in Jewish communities talk about needing to be armed. Especially after that guy broke into a Jewish family's home near Los Angeles, to kill them (but was stopped).
I finally started asking people what the plan was. Are we assuming that if someone broke in, we'd have time to unlock a gun safe, get the ammo, load a gun, and take the safety off?
I don't think I've ever gotten an answer.
Someone in the notes here says that in order for the gun ownership thing to be effective, you have to carry a loaded gun with you at all times? Like... That truly seems like it would escalate a lot of situations.
What happens if the police decide to fuck with you for some reason, and it turns out you're armed? Now they have an excuse to be aggressive?
What happens if someone decides to cast you as the instigator in a situation, and it turns out you were armed? Now they have a way to cast you as aggressive?
I'm sure this varies wildly by region. I'm in California, where we have some gun laws. Where there isn't a culture of open carry.
Maybe in an open carry state, none of this applies.
On the other hand, I feel like it applies to people of color no matter what state. Am I wrong?
And also, above all else... the left has gradually moved from pacifism to absolutely CRAVING violence, and it's pretty scary.
We don't oppose violence anymore. We just want a turn choosing who gets hurt.
The transphobic preacher isn't going to "learn a lesson" from someone pulling a gun on them. This is the same logic people use for spanking kids, ffs.
It is so interesting to read conversations about being armed in the US vs Israel
Zionists will see targeted minorities in a hostile state discuss arming themselves for self defense and say "Everyone in my hostile state is already armed, because of the targeted minorities" without getting why that's bad
file this one next to "socratian poetry" under "tumblr users trying to sound smart by using specific language and revealing they don't know what they're talking about"
the cult of mormonism formed in the 1800s, and the cult's clergy do not refer to themselves as priests.
whenever i see that post about swapping female characters with male ones in video games i always think about this
finally…men are becoming sluts again
nature is healing
re how americans and tbh most people in fortress schengen don't know how difficult it is to acquire visas, greencards or citizenship, how expensive and fraught those pathways are, how there's children who can grow up and live their entire lives in these countries and still be deported. that kind of ignorance, in the last decade of immigration hysteria is indistinguishable from weaponised incompetence. it is barely one step away from complicity to me.
