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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

I've made a similar point to my deplorable friends for years. It's not the left that's coming after our guns, it will be the right when they realize the left is also armed.

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Sonja Letourneau's avatar

Yeah, they seem to think no "lefty" has a weapon. Uh, no, we just don't snuggle them at Subway ya dummy. I don't need it to go to Starbucks ЁЯШС

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James Ackerman's avatar

These fuckwads love to talk about how the Nazis would confiscate personal firearms, and that's true! But first, they armed their co-ideologists out the wazoo AND THEN disarmed them WITH popular support

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So, there's another one of the great myths of history: The Nazis never gained actual majorities in the Reichstag until after Hitler was already Chancellor. They gained their power there to begin with because the German conservative forces (predominantly their big business and Prussian Junker class, like Hindenburg) wanted to co-opt the Nazis against the left-wing, but especially the Communists. Hindenburg even thought he could control Hitler!

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James Ackerman's avatar

Oh, I was thinking of what they did to the Brownshirts. Kept them armed, let them loose....and then turned on them

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R Mercer's avatar

Revolutions ALWAYS eat their own. It is a lesson that few revolutionaries seem to learn... and it is usually the true believers that get eaten.

Just ask the SA... or Robespierre.. or Trotsky.. or any of a LONG list.

Mostly they get eaten because they are too radical--and they get in the way of the power hungry.

Most of the people at CPAC, they are going to be the ones who go to the wall if/when the Rightist revolution comes. Granted they will kill a lot of lefties and trans and gays and blacks first... but they will get the chop, too.

Leaving the actual grifters in charge.

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I have long said Mitch and his ilk will be the first to be executed when Putin or Xi or whoever it is walks into the Capitol with the help of the GOP -- because the Putins of the world know better than anyone that the Mitches of the world cannot be trusted -- because anyone who betrays his own country and people will betray you too.

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JB's avatar

Yes, like California, but restrictions and access are nothing like say Texas. You canтАЩt just buy anything and you certainly cannot open carry or carry without permit.

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MillennialExistential's avatar

Being from the midwest, it's actually really funny how many Californians are really into guns, but don't open up about it until they know you aren't from there.

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SoCal's avatar

Contrary to what people believe, California is not a homogeneous place. Central California is bright red, hence Nunes, McCarthy, etc.

I myself like to go to a shooting range, but do not own a gun, not because I am against the 2nd amendment. It is because I might shoot my foot by accident. I am for the better regulations or the "well-regulated" regarding guns, though as the second amendment says. I mean, do people really need to have an AK-47?

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NLTownie's avatar

What is a far-left gun nut? You mean Marxist/Leninists?

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Capitalism is not just the reason climate change is destroying our planet.it is also the reason we wonтАЩt be able to stop global warming. No matter how man times I virtuously clean out a peanut putter jar for recycling, I am not going to affect global warming one little bit. My footprint is too small and recycling is a distraction. Most recycling is too expensive so it quietly ends up in a landfill somewhere. ItтАЩs busy work to keep us from panicking.

I hate capitalism, too but IтАЩm not the far left. I donтАЩt know who you mean by the тАЬfar leftтАЭ. Is there any far left public figure or organization or movement you can name?

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Nuclear waste is a problem that stops the argument in favour of nuclear energy in its tracks. Using a controlled nuclear reaction as a substitute for oil and gas just substitutes the pollution of nuclear waste for carbon pollution. Until there is a secure way to manage nuclear waste with a half life of 125,000 years, we are just leaving the disposal/storage problem for our grandchildren. We canтАЩt secure nuclear waste for 100 years, let alone 125,00.

The nuclear industry was stopped back in the seventies because of the nuclear waste problem. They have bided their time, waiting for the people who convinced the world not to go nuclear to die. Most of them haveтАж so hereтАЩs the nuclear industry trying again. It was an insoluble problem then and it is an insoluble problem now. The planet already has an existential threat on its hands. We donтАЩt need to resurrect another.

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