NoneOfUrBusiness

Anyone trying to both sides fascism this late in the game is a fascist in denial; that was a pretty obvious tell.

As a wise man (i.e. me) once memed:

The US isn't the only country in the world where people have mental health crises, or have road rage, or get depressed

Yes, but it's one of the few first world countries who do almost nothing about it. Did you know mass shootings are on the rise in Europe too despite no relaxation of gun control laws? France is even talking about regulating knive sales due to knife-based crime. Not so coincidentally, this is happening in a time of social and economic uncertainty. Also, one reason I say it's a mental health thing is that America has more knife-based violent crime than, say, Britain. This points to a deeper factor beyond gun laws leading to the amount of gun violence in America, because as it turns out violence in America is just insane across the board. All countries have people with mental health crises, but the absolute inadequacy of the response to those crises and the number of financial and social destabilizing factors making them more frequent and worse is uniquely American. I mean, with nonsense like tent cities being a common thing of course gun crime will be through the roof. This would explain why places like Norway, Austria and Serbia are near the bottom of homicide rating lists and the top of gun ownership lists at the same time.

And of course, it distracts all the lovely people demanding access to THE EPSTEIN FILES. Stay focused, everyone 🙂

Gun control is an issue you could reasonably go on either side on, but "it's fine if we have a mass shooting every week if it means we get to keep our guns" is not. Neither is, you know, all the other fascist shit he was spouting.

So 50% voted blue and 45% red. The proportion of Republican voters was too high, that's for sure, but it's not "eat shit you voted for this" high.

Is it? It's probably not painless, but it is a fast and not particularly painful death. Too good for him I'd say.

They need exactly zero excuse other than brown people existing to ramp up their fascism and enact violence on Americans.

Also American society needs serious unfucking at all levels. Conservatives are bonkers but the "gun deaths are due to mental health issues" argument has merit; healthy and well-adjusted people don't grab the closest murder weapon and kill random people. Guns are a scapegoat so that politicians can avoid addressing the real issues.

They can obstruct and/or oppose Trump in their own jurisdictions. There are options, everything from withholding federal taxes to enforcing state law on ICE (like Pritzker is threatening to do) to having local National Guard units defend immigrant neighborhoods. In the worst case scenario, forbid ICE from entering the state and shoot them if they do. At the very fucking least this shouldn't be happening.

Protesting in blue areas can achieve something, but only if it's actually disruptive. For example you can force your elected officials to take a hardline approach to Trump rather than capitulate.

I don't know about the Vietnam war protests, but the Civil Rights Movement was a lot more militant than do-nothing liberals would want you to believe. Look up the Black Panthers and people like Malcolm X, and even the peaceful side included real civil disobedience and obstruction. There's no equivalence between what Americans are doing now and what MLK and crew did.