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Would he be told about this plan? It’d certainly be more convincing if he didn’t know, and was set up by the RNC.
Would he be told about this plan? It’d certainly be more convincing if he didn’t know, and was set up by the RNC.
Who’s the republican VP again? And once we even figure that out, do we think Trump will try to kill them too or nah?
No worries! I know it’s hard to convey those levels of nuance in these conversations, especially with how quick everyone is to jump to one side or the other.
No, I haven’t been, and that’s why I said personally. The reason why I never wanted a gun in my house is because of looking at the statistics of who is by far the most likely to get shot by that gun. [Either me or my spouse.]
I am all for responsible gun ownership and made the personal choice not to get one because the threat of my government has not been a credible threat. That is changing, which is why I am trying to decide to make the personal choice to get one. The increased risk to both myself and my spouse is nearing the tipping point where NOT having one is a greater risk from my government.
I have been staunchly anti-gun personally, but it feels like it’s time to arm myself. The threats are becoming credible.
Right now, two things are true:
The president ordering the US military to kill US citizens on US soil is legal and cannot be challenged.
One of the presidential candidates is promising to be a dictator on day 1.
This isn’t a drill. We’re 4 months away from knowing if 6 months away is our democracy’s end.
I remember reading that when national parks tried to make a ‘bear-proof’ trashcan, they found that there was a larger overlap between the smartest bear and the stupidest human to make a viable product.
I feel like it’s a similar situation here. The smartest kid and the stupidest adult are far more similar than we’d like to admit.
We’re past “preventing” the Christo-fascist takeover. We’re in damage control now.
VOTE.
100% and they’re trying to work on the definition of ‘Doctor’ too.
I was wondering when they would start to figure out that maybe it’s a bad idea for the government to get between people and their doctors.
Haha, what a silly Onion article!
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Oh. Oh no.
(Psst. The use of alternating caps means the person you’re responding to is being sarcastic. They already know it’s a thought-terminating cliche. They’re calling out how hypocritical it would be to even try to use that argument.)
Article was published in 2017, and gun deaths among US kids has increased 50% since 2019.
Original article: https://www.romper.com/p/a-toddler-has-shot-someone-every-week-for-the-last-2-years-straight-it-highlights-this-huge-problem-28266
2023 update from a different gun research group: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-50-percent-in-two-years/
We live in hell.
I’m sure this comes with a guaranteed 5% increase to minimum wages at the same time right? … right? Any amount of minimum wage increase from the last increase 15 years ago?