Rich Men North of Richmond

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(08-29-2023, 08:51 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Eh, I'm a cynical man and you're testing my limits in that regard. 

I certainly wouldn't speak for every single person in the situation you've described.  But you're describing this as a binary choice, wanna keep your gun, we gotta destroy your livelihood.

I'm not expressing myself correctly, I guess.  It's not so much a binary choice, as it is our conditioning to think we know what a theft or a threat looks like.  As someone who has voted libertarian many a time with far less regret than I maybe should have, I won't say voting for a politician who supports the 2A is going to lead to ruin...I'm saying it's easy for people to buy into the notion that a gun will protect them from theft or harm while their paychecks and purchasing power are diminished and their safety and health are compromised.

When people tell me they've seen a ghost I know they've seen something transparent with human-like features.

When people tell me they've seen an angel I know they've seen a Michaelangelo style humanoid with a halo and wings.

When people tell me they've seen an alien I know they've seen a thin humanoid with big eyes.


We are always on the look out for what we are told to perceive as things that aren't so easily defined, but we like them nicely defined for us.  Patriotism has been boiled down to saluting a flag, this way you can poison the air and water and screw over veterans.  No one says "Pick up that cigarette butt, I fought for this country."  Well, maybe someone does.  My ol' man was a veteran who pointed that out.  The idea that he's supposed to care about the flag but stand by while people exploit or destroy everything else. 

So really what I'm saying is that talking about guns and protecting stuff really puts it in perspective when you look around the rust belt and see broken down, cancer-addled "used and discarded laborers" who have spent the past 40 years gladly busting their own unions (and yea, fudge Clinton and NAAFTA on that too) and helping the upper crust pick their pockets while they are too busy looking for "someone who is going to get them."

I've seen a lot of people who have been rather diplomatically drubbed, but they've got guns and guns can protect you from people who will exploit you without god and the law on their side, I suppose.  Voting to keep guns won't destroy your livelihood per ser, but a lot of politicians who are going to take from you are going to make sure you have a gun BUT they'll be damn sure to make you think you need to thank them for letting you shoot anyone who isn't them.

Guns pacify people, is my point.  And the notion that you can spend your last breath defending the final pile of crap you own that hasn't been taken from you in a non-thuggish way keeps a lot of folks going.  Good on them.