I love to talk to conservatives about this since i used to be a HUGE conservative and gun owner, till i got out of certain echo chambers and realized what was going on.
I will gladly have a factual, calm conversation about why we need gun control now and why the GOP has left their base behind. But no one will even have this conversation because the instant they hear the words “gun control,” they get really defensive and the whole conversation is ruined.
But thoughts and prayers…
You can’t talk about gun control. You just have to do it. Talking about it is a political death sentence. Similar to trans issues on the left. It galvanizes more opposition than support despite being supported by the majority of people.
It’s like handing free Red Bull to the NRA.
Nothing at all? No thoughts? No prayers?
Don’t miscount their lack of action as a negligence. It’s actually intentional because they want the mass shootings. When mass shootings happen, the Republicans jump up and clap hands with glee. They like that people are dying from their “lack of action”. It furthers the police state that they want; kills voters that opposes them; undermines the premise of society’s functionality in things like public education, public functionality, and the public’s trust in rescue (remember that cop who stood outsidein Parkland?); and benefits their donors.
What do you mean nothing, “they are sending thoughts and prayers…”
The gop never does anything when there is a shooting. They don’t care and they never will.
I love to talk to conservatives about this since i used to be a HUGE conservative and gun owner, till i got out of certain echo chambers and realized what was going on.
I will gladly have a factual, calm conversation about why we need gun control now and why the GOP has left their base behind. But no one will even have this conversation because the instant they hear the words “gun control,” they get really defensive and the whole conversation is ruined.
But thoughts and prayers…
Oh no
He slammed them
But “absolutely nothing” is what they’re good at.
slams
FUCKIN HERE HE COMES FROM THE FUCKIN TOP FUCKIN ROPE, OOOOOOOOOH WEE!
Literally, but the sad truth we need to accept is that this is the only way most people engage with anything outside of themselves and their own world: through some dramatic narrative retelling in their heads.
It has been like this for millenia, since before we had words, we had series of images and imagined events chained together in our minds that made us feel things, or explained the way we felt.
We have the exact same brains we did tens of thousands of years ago, we are the same story-creature that rather understand the world through a story of heroes and villains than logic and understanding of systems.
This is what Trump capitalized on, likely drawing from his experience close to WWE and its owners and managers, to learn how people engage with media through cognitive dissonance, and he supplied narratives and dramatic retellings of complex stories to simple minds and won them over so thoroughly it’s now basically a cult.
If we understood this sooner, we might have been able to get in the middle like Newsom is doing now, and create more engaging stories for them that serve greater good. But we thought ourselves better than that, and tried to scold, educate and demand more from a class of people who simply rather “see their wrestler win.”
Honestly, I’m more tired of people bringing this up than of seeing it in headlines.
How news and headlines are presented are meant to grab your attention, and it’s definitely working because they continue to do it!
Both written and spoken language are forever evolving, and right now this is how the news is written. Seeing nonsense comments like this on almost every single article is just boring and doesn’t add anything to the discussion.
In a couple years headlines will be using some other hot ticket words to keep things fresh.
Oh come on, it’s shorthand for their inaction and garbage words in the aftermath of every one of these.
Seeing articles like these nearly every single week in the United States is, well, not boring and I don’t see anyone doing anything about these other than discussion.
Honestly, I’m more tired of people bringing this up than of seeing it in headlines.
Refreshing to see someone put on the “They Lives” glasses and see through the bogus headlines.
Both written and spoken language are forever evolving
Gross. Please do that in private.
You’ll have to explain that first part for me. What are “They Lives” glasses?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
Though, largely, based on scenes such as:
“They Live” is a movie about the protagonist finding a pair of sunglasses that, when worn, reveal much of the ruling class and media to be members of an alien race secretly subjugating humanity for their own purposes.
Interesting! I’ll have to add it to my watch list.
Be prepared for the best fight scene in cinema.
“Best” is incredibly subjective.
I’m pretty sure that the best fight scene in cinema is the naked hotel fight in Borat.
nonsense
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines nonsense as words or language having no meaning or no intelligible ideas.
Yes, your single word quote comments are nonsense.
quote
Darn, I wanted Blasts.
Duh dun ah
Let the boys be boys
I slammed his mom last night
Wtf does he want?! The GOP are sending all the thoughts and prayers they can over social media.
PRAY HARDER.
I occasionally listen to the local right wing radio show to check in on what bullshit they’re saying.
They were going full speed ahead on the christian persecution complex, with not a single solitary fuck given to anything else, let alone preventative measures.
Well yeah, they have to take the Christian persecution angle on this one because they can’t take the “this is what happens when you take God out of schools” angle.
If you’re looking for reason or logic, it won’t be there.
They’re just footsoldiering for PutinAnalytica and Reichbart.
I’m never looking for that. I only ever listen if all the other stations are playing garbage, and to know what the right is lying about.
Why would they do anything else, they’re the scum of the earth
As long as he is suggesting that we fix the societal issues we face and not disarm ourselves while a fascist gov is literally sending soldiers into the streets and arming ICE like they’re in a fucking war…sure.
Yes, Governor Homelesssweep is very interested in tackling the root causes of crime, drug dependency, and homelessness.
You do realize that 49 states send us their homeless because they KNOW we take care of them right? Like I first hand delt with it as a bus driver and an officer says “He’s on your bus. Take him somewhere.” Several times.
O, I know he’s suggesting we disarm ourselves, but I’d take him over the pedo any day…which is sad that the bar is that fucking low.
He’s better than close personal friend of Jeffery Epstein, Trump, but I prefer to wait until after the primaries to start making the comparison. Maybe we’ll get a real left wing populist candidate and the Trump backlash will be enough to push them past the establishment candidates like Newsom that the DNC is likely to favor. If we’re stuck with an establishment candidates I’d prefer Andy Beshaer. He’s a popular southern red state governor so I think he’d have a better shot than Newsom and the establishment candidates are all going to do pretty much the same thing.
I’m sure the white house will send out “thoughts and prayers” within the next few business days.
They were literally killed in the middle of “thoughts and prayers” it didn’t seem to work for them. Maybe their god was one of the wrong ones.
They’ll call it a hate crime against Christians and throw out the whole “most persecuted religion” argument out against.
https://lemmy.world/post/35093128
Fox’s Rachel Campos-Duffy Declares ‘Christians Are the Most Persecuted Religion in the Universe’ During Segment About MN Shooting
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
They’ll call it a hate crime against Christians and throw out the whole “most persecuted religion” argument out against.
Edit: Oops, replied to the wrong person. Thank you for your attention to the matter.
This one? Nah they’ll send ICE.
Probably blame it on the trans epidemic as well.
Because they are so tired of being slammed they will now have national guard at all schools and streets and homes to choke hold compliance so a shooting like this never happens unless dear leader says so
Have they ever not done nothing ?
No, they sometimes tell their followers to go but more guns and ammo.
