• Cas9111@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Welcome to freest country in the world. We will support genocide and still somehow convince own delusional selves that we are good guys.

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        7 months ago

        Rich, privileged white people are free to do anything. The rest of us are oppressed, beaten, and thrown in prison unless we obey.

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          7 months ago

          Not even. One police officer decides your sus while you’re armed and that’s it. They’re allowed to execute you on the spot. That’s not a right, that’s a privilege with a death sentence for anyone who mistakes themselves as part of the privileged class.

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            They are allowed to execute you on the spot regardless of what you may or may not have on you. All they have to do is to say they were scared.

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              Yes but 80% of the time they cite their belief someone had a gun. To the point that once a gun is found at the scene everyone tunes out. (Other made up offenses include having a knife and having nothing but walking toward them)

              Which brings us back to the point of a gun being an excuse to execute you on the spot. Which also means you don’t actually have a 2nd amendment right. Rights that you only technically have, aren’t actually extant.

              It’s okay though, we don’t actually have any of the rights from Amendments 1-8. So it’s not unusual for the second amendment to only technically exist either.

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        7 months ago

        Will you’re free to get fat, put on a blue uniform, and beat the fuck out of journalists and black people.

        If that’s not freedom, I don’t know what is.

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          7 months ago

          And the companies who sell the corn syrup foods are free to use all that money to influence politicians. Um… I mean…pay lobbyists, or become a super PAC or something that’s technically not corruption.

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      7 months ago

      If “freedom” and “American exceptionalism” wasn’t dead on arrival it certainly was tossed off a high bridge when Trump was elected.