If you look quickly, it just seems they were holding a smartphone, not a weapon
(paraphrasing that dumb fuck on "news"max that said that a protester holding a phone totally looks like someone aiming a gun to kill an officer)
Conservatism only holds one position, there should be in-groups that are protected but not bound by law, and out-groups that are not protected but bound by law.
The GOP = scared white snowflakes
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All their arguments are transient, it’s to win the argument not make it in good faith. It’s to keep the established in and out groups as @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world put it so succinctly.
Who is this?
These two are a couple who came outside their home and pointed the weapons you see pictured at a group of protestors marching past said home.
Thanks for the lmddgtfy link. For anyone curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_gun-toting_incident they are a couple which were not happy about George Floyd protests going near their home so their perfectly measured response was to come out with guns. 🤣 Charges have been filed, they pled guilty and in the end got pardoned and their criminal record expunged. Waow.
in the end got pardoned and their criminal record expunged
Fuck I missed that update. I was so happy they got punished. :-(
and in the end got pardoned and their criminal record expunged.
Yep. This sort of action is why I’m not confident about any optimistic view of deprogramming the maga cult. They are in enough positions of power to rule us all based on the rule of law. The violations of constitutional rights and flouting court orders is just to throw red meat to the base.
They basically went to a protest and pointed their guns at people. It’s not even these fucks. There are so many more. When I lived in the US, someone in my neighborhood did this.
Actaully they never left their property. The protest marched right by their home and they walked outside brandishing the guns.
“I am so scared of the protesters outside, I need to defend myself! Quick wife! Grab the guns and lets get on the front lawn, because we’re so incredibly scared of the violent protesters who could come bursting in here any second, to murder us for being white!”
Still both of them are POS
Loved Jon Stewart this week
They look like the inept culprits of a murder mystery right after they’ve been discovered and about to make a getaway.
Fucking classic
I love how he’s holding it wrong.
When will people realize that republicans do not support the first amendment? They support use of force to further their agenda. That’s it. Making gun ownership out to be a right wing thing is such a gigantic fuckup.
once fascists get full power, they will attempt to ban it totally throughout the country. mmuch like with russia, last thing putin wants is the populace with firearms.
She’s not even looking where she’s pointing and yet she’s got her finger on the trigger.
Weapons handling score 0/10
Also her wrist is bent, which is something that makes me unreasonably angry whenever I see it, whether in real life or in movies/TV.
After all these years I just realized he also has his thumb behind 🤣
That shot is sure gonna look sooo cool… for .5 seconds
I have a few tiny guns like that. It would jam on the next shot from limp wristing it. She bought it because it was cute, has no idea how to use it.
For the life of me I cannot see why training requirements violate the 2A.
Because racists would inevitably set the requirements.
For the life of me I cannot see why training requirements violate the 2A.
I think in a perfect world, we should have some sort of impartial training. In the world we live in, I wouldn’t trust Trump’s administration to set the training requirements. I’m sure step 1 would involve turning over your social media accounts.
Not to mention the guy is holding the buttstock under his armpit and he’s got his other hand all the way up at the end of the rail guard…
Any time you interact with a 2A online they will swear to high heaven that they personally keep their guns locked in a childproof vault and make safety priority one.
I wish the internet would get over its collective obsession with pointing out conservative double standards. They don’t care that they have double standards. In fact its a power move to show that they’re above whatever petty moral code everyone else has tied themselves to
LARPing valuable insight is the least amount of action that people can put in while feeling they contributed something. “Oooh, look at them. Now someone else do something about it!”
You’re correct, of course. But there are still a certain amount of Republican voters who like to pretend they have principles. Then there are also so-called centrists and politically disengaged folks. Sometimes they need to be reminded exactly who these charlatans are, so there can be no excuse for confusing one side of the political spectrum with the other.
Yeah, I came to the same understanding when I used to counter conspiracy nuts denying climate change and evolution etc.
You’ll never convince them they’re wrong or hypocrites… But people who stumble upon the thread that are not super critical thinkers will see the discussion and you can help them realise the person is actually full of shit.
Sometimes they can lie believably enough that people fall for it, and some of those people will snap out of it when they see the contradiction and logical fallacies.
They’ve beaten you into submission.
I’m not beaten, I’m suggesting alternate strategy
What alternate strategy?
To be clear, I think I mostly agree with you, that certain people are entrenched and merely pointing out hypocrisy does nothing to change their ways of thinking. What other options are there?
Idk really, community organizing, forming mutual aid groups, etc. Getting out and talking to your neighbors. Just tired of seeing the same old double standards posted like it’ll matter, and nothing actually getting done besides furious typing
No, you didn’t. You said to stop pointing out their hypocrisy, to let them get away with it. That’s all you suggested.
You specifically, explicitly, didn’t do that
Been saying it for years now:
Perfect hypocrites.
Anyone left at this point is a full-on cultist, fully subsumed into the hivemind.
Hypocrisy is only a failing if you believe in fairness or justice.
Altemeyer described this pretty well in Right-Wing Authoritarianism. He argues that right-wing authoritarians value strength above all other traits, and the ability to disregard rules is a signifier of strength. Thus, leaders who cheat are idolized by RWAs.
That is a disgustingly true observation
These people are the people who say ‘without God, what would stop people from doing bad things?’
They’re fucking sociopaths is what they are, anyone who says that.
What that means is that they literally cannot concieve of the idea of making up their own, independent, at least somewhat consistent moral framework.
The only way they know how to think is backwards, is to justify already reached conclusions.
GOP Keynote speakers for this violent stunt.
Yes we all know. Umfortunately the hypocrisy is completely invisible to them, so posts like this are a circlejerk at best.
It’s good to remind others not in the loop why the propaganda is nuts.
But yeah you’re not convincing MAGA losers of this. How an event makes them feel is more important than the facts and consistency it represents.
Uuuhmmmfortunately
