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[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Am I the only one bothered by the gun not fitting in the book?

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, you’re not alone. But simple solution: disassemble the hand gun and put it in there. You can make it fit. When they come for you, dont worry. They will wait for you to reassemble it no problem

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, you ain't going to disassemble that revolver to make it smaller. That frame and barrel ain't coming apart without a proper barrel wrench and heavy vise or cutting torch....

So you either need a small revolver or a much bigger book.

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, its okay. Just cut the metal if it doesn't fit. When you reassemble I suggest using super glue. It has worked like a charm for me in the past

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I never like the glue line though.

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

A true super glue master never leaves lines behind

[–] hedhoncho@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

How to keep Dems from stealing your guns? Basic packaging 101.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

It's because of perceptions capabilities of MAGAs

https://i.vgy.me/Y0HUQm.gif

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

That's the one book on basic economics they might actually read though. Fuck thomas sowell

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sowell though... what a crank

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This meme doesn't work because a conservative literally bought me a copy of that book and it's infantile.

This book is titled "Basic Economics" because Sowel is a troll, and the economics in his book are largely correct but incomplete to the point of misinforming people. This is an incredibly "conservative" book through-and-through.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's correct in a bourgeois friendly way, in that it aligns with existing liberal economics. The problem is immediately apparent upon reading liberal economics, though, as invariably there is a distinct urge towards the futility of study, or the supernatural benefits of market mechanics above all. Bourgeois economists are closer to priests justifying the unrestrained tyranny of Capital over Man, when its the historic duty of the proletariat to wrest that control back and firmly reign in Capital, to be bent to our will. We must know more, learn the unlearned, know the unknown, to do so. Marx was the first to truly completely take on such a task.

Sowell is just one such priest of liberalism, an especially useful one in that he is allegedly ex-Marxist. This combination of "abandoning leftist economics for real economics" results in quite a common book to throw in the faces of those that get too uppity towards the status quo.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Right wingers love Sowell tho

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Reading Thomas Sowell is like lead poisoning your brain, so this checks out.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Could probably use a Bible from the way things are. Doubt they actually ever open those.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not American and out of the loop, is MAGA threatening to take people's guns??? Didn't have that one on my bingo card, I thought MAGA held access to guns in higher regard than access to water.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they want to keep THEIR guns, but you shouldn't have a gun. If you aren't the right kind of American the second amendment doesn't apply to you. Remember the first gun law the U.S. ever had was one to keep freed slaves from owning one.

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago

Wow. This is not the rights sentiment at all