Absolutely. Before the first one people on here were saying don’t protest or they’ll kill you. I realize it’s a bit ironic to be saying this right now but aside from a few individuals, that was proven incorrect.

True but at bare minimum there is no justification for them to be armed.

We do need gun control. For ICE. Those criminals should not be armed.

I do too but some of it is hard to uproot. Someone has to put in the work to unravel it and it’s often very difficult and unpopular work for the first experts to take that on.

And their political opponents too…

Unfortunately I’m not sure how you could handle all propaganda. As long as you have oligarchs and states it will exist.

So unbelievably petty…

All leaders have to care about the people’s will. Their personal opinions don’t matter. They can’t stay in power without a base of support.

Did he? I didn’t think the videos were clear enough to see but maybe I missed it.

So they make no mention of any accidental firearm discharge. Some have speculated this could have been a reason for the shooting since there was no obvious reason visible in the videos, but there continues to be no evidence of this.

I was genuinely unaware of this. What was it about?

Not me but apparently they’ve confirmed they’re looking into this “glitch”.

Oh for sure I’m not implying the Trump administration is over or anything, but this is just the first time I can ever recall the right not immediately and universally rallying around the most patently false bullshit imaginable.

That said, if they actually pull out of Minneapolis as news reports were indicating, I think this is a huge defeat for the Trump administration. I’m sure they will try to come up with a new plan as you say but it’s still a big tactical win to defeat this particular strategy since I think it was pretty clear and easy how it was going to work.

That’s pretty damn hot. Around 120 F for those imperialists among us.

Straight white 2nd amendment enjoyer. I think that last one is where they really stepped in it with all the inflammatory language that basically amounted to “we have a right to execute you if you have a gun near us”.

Is the big lie strategy finally backfiring? I don’t know why it took ten fucking years of this BS but I’ll take it.

Local subs are by far the best part of Reddit and really the only reason I never quit the site. There is a huge amount of important organizing happening on them right now.

Wish we could get them to fire here but never quite hit the critical mass needed.

100%. Also humans seem to have a natural tendency to ideate about the apocalypse that goes beyond the rational. All kinds of people have been predicting the end of the world for millenia at minimum, and so far they’ve all been wrong. It’s a lot less likely than we think it is, and so predicating our ideas and actions on this fringe situation that is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes renders us less able to act in the conditions that will exist.

Not the same person.

I think they’d be able to create their own armory if they want to. Just need to get a few people together.