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by southernplaces7 255 days ago
Firearms for home and personal defense. Also, not to even dig deeply into the many lunacies that the progressive left became insane about during the pandemic (both sides were guilty here, but it was BOTH sides).

Don't get too smug. You really think your entire half of a political spectrum is free of stupidity and irrational thinking?
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blacksmith_tb 255 days ago
Oh sure, the Left has plenty of irrational but deeply held beliefs. Anti-firearms though... when they kill more people through suicide than homicide...

1: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/new-report-highlights-us-2...

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adgjlsfhk1 255 days ago
being against the #1 killer of children in the US hardly seems insane to me.
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specialist 255 days ago
> Firearms for home and personal defense.

What current policy, legislation, court decisions, etc do you oppose?

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pstuart 242 days ago
Stupidity is a universal given -- we're all vulnerable to a degree.

But that wasn't my point, it was "hate against the right". See, here's the thing: the Right is now defined by literally hating the Left. "woke" has been repurposed to mean "stupid libtard shit" but nobody actually can define what that is other than cherry picking some rando ultra leftist's comments as being representative to the group as a whole.

I've lived my many years in liberal bubbles and I've never heard anyone express actual hate people on the right -- just a lot of bewilderment, disappointment, and lately a lot of fear.

The whole Red v. Blue game is a stupid simple yet highly effective trick to get the masses squabbling against each other rather than uniting to resist our owners.

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rapind 255 days ago
> Firearms for home and personal defense.

Given the current political climate, the left should definitely get on board with this one ASAP.

There's lunacy on both sides for sure, but MAGA has a pretty strong hold on blatant cruelty when it comes to their issues. Also, I'd argue the Overton window has shifted pretty far right, so you have to be pretty extreme to be considered a right wing extremist these days. In fact, some of the major MAGA rallying points could actually be points of compromise to most progressives if they weren't so cruel about it (ICE, farm slavery visas, trans sports). Plus curiously the one we could all agree on but don't hear much about on the right anymore; Epstein.

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