• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    I remember when I first learned the theory that we humans may have evolved from monkeys and grabbed my dad’s 22 he used to have from the gun vault and went on a rampage. Totally happened, I swear. It was February 31st, 198457 AD.

    All jokes aside, that sounds like a very braindead take to blame evolution instead of looking at the root of the problem.

  • bazus1@lemmy.world
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    I think Biden and Harris should not be in the same state at once, much less the same plane. Can’t afford to lose both at once.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve never heard of anyone being shot because I learned why I had black hair. Hint: I inherited it from my dad.

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    Blame it on teaching evolution, or video games, or moral decay, just whatever you do don’t blame it on how easy it is for unstable people to get a hold of machine guns.

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      Uh, it’s actually very hard to get a hold of a machine gun, the grandfathered legal ones cost like $100k.

      Is that the America we want?

      Where only upper middle class have the right to Ma Deuce?

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        1 year ago

        An AR-15 with a bump stock meets all the technical requirements of a machine gun.

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          A bump stock arguably makes it full auto, but it doesn’t make it a machinegun.

          Arguably the reason this thread is confused is that the word ‘machine gun’ doesn’t refer so much to physical characteristics, but more to a usage: they’re meant for sustained covering fire rather than short bursts.

  • rengoku2@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    How school shooting becomes symbol of America’s freedom is beyond comedy.

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    Not defending or excusing this dip shit at all. But this was 7 years ago when he said this. The world was pretty different 7 years ago.

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    Just when I honestly can’t think conservatives could go any further out of their way to embarrass America than they already do….

    They elect people like [INSERT GENERIC WEALTHY WHITE MAN].

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          At this point, I think most people who qualify as merely conservative are Democrats. The Republican party in general has moved far right of “conservative” and well into “fanatical”.

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          They elect people like [INSERT GENERIC WEALTHY WHITE MAN].

          Obama’s non-white and was elected, but i keep forgetting the rule of all evil is cis white (rich) males. My bad.

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            Obama’s non-white and was elected

            But not by conservatives, which is what the comment you replied to said.

            Try doing more reading and less sassy quipping.

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    If Republicans DIDN’T believe this they would NOT have voted for him!

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    Misleading headline: if you read the article and watch the video, he actually blames school shootings on the lack of moral education, with merely a reference to evolution teaching as an example of amoral atheism in the classroom.

    So it’s not a cartoonish slogan, it’s actually a fairly standard fascist talking point.

    And people say, ‘How can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates?’ Because we’ve taught a whole generation, a couple generations now of Americans, that there’s no right or wrong, that it’s about survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime. Why is that life of any sacred value? Because there’s nobody sacred to whom it’s owed. None of this should surprise us.

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        It’s an apt editorialisation, but it’s not the whole story. The difference is the full quote will sound reasonable enough to a lot of people with a religious background. For instance, I can see my grandparents nodding a long to this, as they mentally insert their own specifics in place of “evolution did it.”

        It’s not so easily dismissed as just saying the crazy thing outright, without padding.

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    Fuck off with your religion. Your god is a fiction invented by a conman for the explicit purpose of relegating you to the lower strata of society. Idiot.

    • DeadNinja@lemmy.worldOP
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      I know. It’s Extremely Infuriating. But I found only one community for Extremely Infuriating that appears to be a ghost town.

      Which is why I posted this here.