So what’s the plan? Good luck on that vote you’ve got coming up, but let’s not be naive about what might happen. Hiding and hoping didn’t work out very well for Anne Frank, it won’t work for Americans either.
I thought you had a second amendment just for this?! If we believe the amount of Americans here telling everyone to arm themselves, and that they are ready to defend themselves if a police officer looks menacing, you’d all be ready for this.
Americans are cowards. That 2nd amendment is only good for the NRA to defend guns when idiots kill children in schools in order to send out thoughts and prayers.
The especially annoying part is that a lot of them are acting like preachers telling the rest of the world we should arm ourselves in case our governments becomes a fascist dictatorship, saying they themselves are armed and ready, in case an ICE officer comes towards them with a shock glove, and they will not hesitate to shoot. But then, nobody does it because “they don’t want to give the government a reason to escalate things”, “it might start a civil war”, or “they are scary”.
They spread their pro-gun BS worldwide, boast about their 2nd amendment, then in the next comment, another one apologizes to the rest of the world for their government turning into a fascist dictatorship. I know they’re not the same person. I know there’s significant nuance to apply, but they’re not making it easy.
Indeed. There’s obviously nuance to apply but there’s so many pro-gun people from the US that sometimes it’s hard to conclude anything else. I interacted with gay Americans from Florida 20 years ago and as “liberal” as they were, they were still pro-gun and telling me, a Québecois living in a small town, that I should also arm myself, in case my government became tyrannical or something. Nowadays I read the comments from Americans on different communities of Lemmy, often from LGBTQ+ communities, mostly all encouraging others to get guns, and it’s hard to see Americans in any other way.
It’s a good thing that you remind us about this. But surely you understand that even not armed, even if not by protests, there’s other actions citizens can take to oppose their governments, and apologizing to, or virtually standing with the people your government is attacking, is not one of those.
Maybe should learn how to protest from the French.
The French police aren’t trying to kill the protesters. They literally shoot you in the head with bullets here.
Good thing you guys keep screaming about your Second amendment just for this. Or maybe get rid of it and most of the weapons.
So what’s the plan? Good luck on that vote you’ve got coming up, but let’s not be naive about what might happen. Hiding and hoping didn’t work out very well for Anne Frank, it won’t work for Americans either.
Oh well then, fuck it I guess, eh? Sit back and stand aside.
I thought you had a second amendment just for this?! If we believe the amount of Americans here telling everyone to arm themselves, and that they are ready to defend themselves if a police officer looks menacing, you’d all be ready for this.
Americans are cowards. That 2nd amendment is only good for the NRA to defend guns when idiots kill children in schools in order to send out thoughts and prayers.
The especially annoying part is that a lot of them are acting like preachers telling the rest of the world we should arm ourselves in case our governments becomes a fascist dictatorship, saying they themselves are armed and ready, in case an ICE officer comes towards them with a shock glove, and they will not hesitate to shoot. But then, nobody does it because “they don’t want to give the government a reason to escalate things”, “it might start a civil war”, or “they are scary”.
They spread their pro-gun BS worldwide, boast about their 2nd amendment, then in the next comment, another one apologizes to the rest of the world for their government turning into a fascist dictatorship. I know they’re not the same person. I know there’s significant nuance to apply, but they’re not making it easy.
Not all of us carry guns nor want to.
Cool but your country has more guns then people.
Indeed. There’s obviously nuance to apply but there’s so many pro-gun people from the US that sometimes it’s hard to conclude anything else. I interacted with gay Americans from Florida 20 years ago and as “liberal” as they were, they were still pro-gun and telling me, a Québecois living in a small town, that I should also arm myself, in case my government became tyrannical or something. Nowadays I read the comments from Americans on different communities of Lemmy, often from LGBTQ+ communities, mostly all encouraging others to get guns, and it’s hard to see Americans in any other way.
It’s a good thing that you remind us about this. But surely you understand that even not armed, even if not by protests, there’s other actions citizens can take to oppose their governments, and apologizing to, or virtually standing with the people your government is attacking, is not one of those.
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