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So, lets say we get to August or some summer month, and 4,000,000 people are protesting right out front the white house.

Do they send in the tanks? Do they kill 1,000,000 people? Would republican civilians see empathy for the dead americans who were democrats? Or would it unite the nation like 9/11 did, except this time against the government?

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

“Buying a gun” is the tankie version of libs saying “go vote”. Solves nothing, they say it will fix everything.

Where did I say that it would "fix everything?" Weren't you just complaining about "mischaracterizing arguments" (which I never did)?

Again, you're just looking for reasons to attack me for no reason. No idea what crawled up your ass but it has nothing to do with anything I've actually said.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You said the magic platitude. If somebody put "go vote" at the bottom of the kent state shooting I would also have issues.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So I'm not allowed to tell anyone to do anything if that one thing doesn't magically fix all the problems in the world?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If its a stupid platitude and you're writing an otherwise good post about kent state, yes.

Let things be complex. You don't need to prescribe gun ownership after fucking kent state. You don't need to tell people to go vote, either. Its so fucking dumb.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's stupid. If I went into sufficient depth to satisfy you (and only you, btw), nobody would read it because of the length.

I've addressed all your objections and each time you just invent some new bullshit to try to justify why you got all pissy in the first place. Just fuck off already.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You never addressed my first post. You literally did a "how you train with gun without buy guy" gotcha thing then just never addressed it. You still havent addressed it, truth be told.

So again, you're just responding to shit. Its not even new bullshit. I'm just saying the same thing over and over again in different ways. "Buy a gun" is an overprescribed oversimplified conclusion and the reason you didn't connect it to kent state is not because it would be "boring" but because its trite "go out and vote" type bullshit.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man, fuck off. Like you didn't make shit up over an over, that whole "1776" line, get the fuck out. Just drop it. Reply again and I'll block you.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"buy a gun" is the 1776 line. You can't really think that offering the same exact advice as fascists is actually effective, do you?

Go ahead and block me. Imagine the kind of trite bullshit I'll miss out on.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WHICH I REFUTED ALREADY, JUST LIKE I REFUTED YOUR 3D PRINTER BULLSHIT AND EVERY OTHER STUPID BULLSHIT POINT YOU RAISED, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.

Blocked.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Being blocked has never hurt so much.