c'mon do something meme that reads «c'mon, do a Resist Tyranny» pointing at the NRA logo

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[–] 49 points 1 year ago

Best they're gonna do is join the tyranny

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    It's only tyranny if it's from a blue state, otherwise it's just sparkling law and order

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Anyone who thought that their definition of "tyranny" wasn't just "someone wants to do something nice for someone I don't like" was just fooling themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    “Tyranny is when I’m not allowed to do whatever without consequence because I’m a big baby bitch boy with a grade 6 or less reading level who’s pumped full of toxic masculinity, even when I’m a lady, and a kilo of insecurity injected straight to my spinal cord every time I lose at anything(and even when I still win but not by as much as I wanted to).”

    They’re all just awful people who never grew up running on their baseline hardware like fucking animals. The funniest part is that they’re terrified of losing to people who want to install variois safety nets to insure that the loss isn’t too disasterous for them while they can only respond to any action against them with straight-up, literal death threats.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    "They're our guys so it doesn't count!"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I will never consider joining the NRA. Fuck those conservative dick wads.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Hey, come on now, it's only tyranny when the Democrats do it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh they will rise up, but it will be on the side of tyranny.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They will follow their Republican overlords till death.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Liberal gun nuts loathe the NRA. Even the right-wing gun nuts are largely sick of their shit. NONE of the guntubers I watch even give them a nod.

    They're hanging by the skin of their teeth by helping with gun range insurance and the like. Acting like they're even a modern lobbying thing exposes one's ignorance.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's almost like the opposition party to the tyrants spent decades villifying gun ownership and calling the NRA murderers, resulting in the only people left in the NRA and 90% of gun owners being Republicans.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah except the real reason is the NRA was taken over by gun manufacturer Lobby a long time ago. They don't care about gun owners or their rights they care about selling more guns.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    And now would be a great time to push for that if they hadn't turned into an asset of the Republican party and Russia.

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    [–] 77 points 1 year ago*

    You can’t expect the brown shirts to resist their own guy.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's almost as if it was all bullshit to get you to donate to a organization specifically designed to enrich its officers and gun manufacturers.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    That's wildly underselling it. The financial aspect is almost anecdotal. The 2nd amendment movement has only ever served one purpose above everything else: Arm white people to manage, deter, and even lynch black people, as well as to prepare for the eventual transition to fascism.

    This is part of why the Great American Project was doomed to degenerate into fascism long decades Maga was a thing. Wildly racist violent thugs were given the sociopolitical power to establish this whole charade about "resisting tyranny" when it was only ever about minorities. Always. Even supposed liberals bought into this lie, eternal shame upon these useful idiots. Yet every time since the American Civil War where black people started actually organizing and exercising their 2A right ended with those rights gutted or those communities actually being fucking bombed. That should have been pretty telling. But Americans collectively kept up the repeatedly disproven pretense that this was about "fundamental rights".

    Anyway if you can't tell recent events have got me pretty fired up about the innumerable ways in which american self-mythology has only ever served fascist agendas.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They won't do that. Every time some fucking pig uses their horse to step on a protestor they nut.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons

    Throughout the late 1960s, the militant Black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of California’s gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for Black people to arm themselves.”

    The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.

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    In contrast to the NRA’s rigid opposition to gun control in today’s America, the organization fought alongside the government for stricter gun regulations in the 1960s. This was part of an effort to keep guns out of the hands of African-Americans as racial tensions in the nation grew. The NRA felt especially threatened by the Black Panthers, whose well-photographed carrying of weapons in public spaces was entirely legal in the state of California, where they were based.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    This is why most gun owners prefer GOA. NRA just inserts itself as the face of gun owners, doesn't actually represent us. GOA is actually libertarian, is for armed citizens not militarized cops. Stays in its lane with politics. Doesn't go out of its way to get bad PR with left.

    Thinking gun owners like the NRA is about on the same level as thinking we shoot clips. They are the AARP of guns. They exist only to collect money from idiots.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Read this as "Cmon do a racist tyranny" at first. Like, damn thats pretty mask off, and hello welcome to the last decade...

    But yeah, "resist" works too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    And I read this as "Cmon do a racist [T slur]" , to which I say no thank you. I don't find racists attractive tyvm.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Best they can do is wing a few reporters.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    NRA obviously isn't going to help us, but your local Socialist Rifle Association would be more amenable to resisting tyranny. If there is no chapter in your area get some like minded friends together and start one.

    Edit: How could I forget your local John Brown Gun Club, good number of chapters around the country and they will be comrades.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    SRA is pretty explicit about not being a "militia" of any kind. Good place to meet cool people, but they won't be resisting under the SRA banner. John Brown Gun Club on the other hand is a little less timid about showing up to protect people.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)
  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    The marines were just deployed domestically (blatantly unconstitutional) and they complied with the unlawful order. They are part of the fascist insurrection.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Military coups happen, that’s why Trump replaced all the generals that might stand against him

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How often are those military coups AGAINST the fascists? Hell a lot of those military coups were backed by our military/intelligence agencies. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the US military to be the bastion against tyranny.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    I mean, you're right, but it's because of their demographics and proximity to the situation that I said what I said.

    Few NRA members will be in any position to intervene or see the reality first-hand. Meanwhile, Marines have seen their spouses and other relatives deported in recent months. Trump was an idiot to deploy them like so, as opposed just about any other branch of the active-duty military.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Marines have seen their spouses and other relatives deported in recent months. Trump was an idiot to deploy them like so, as opposed just about any other branch of the active-duty military.

    I take it Marines are especially likely to have family or spouses that are here illegally, for some reason?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Per Congress:

    As of February 2024, more than 40,000 foreign nationals were serving in active and reserve components of the Armed Forces. An estimated additional 115,000 foreign nationals residing in the United States are veterans who have previously served on active duty.

    Service guarantees citizenship. We've got so many immigrants in the military. Heavy Hispanic representation. Rodriguez and Vasquez are stereotype names for military members and you'll find it in movies all the time.

    I do have a general feeling that Marines take more immigrants, especially Hispanic, but I don't have anything to base it on.

    It's actually a little more complex than a guarantee, but serving in the US military is a path to expedited citizenship/permanent residency including family.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Hispanics - particularly Hispanic men in the military - have long been loyal supporters of the Republican Party and the Trump Presidency. A lot of these guys are from families that fled countries undergoing left-wing insurgencies and joined the US military with an eye towards flipping their home countries back to conservative governance. In particular, you've got a lot of Cuban and Venezuelan ex-pats aligned with the capitalist opposition parties. You've also got a lot of Nicaraguans and Columbians with a family history opposed to the Sandinistas and the FARC rebels. And that's before Marine Training beats anything resembling modern liberalism out of you.

    The Trump anti-immigrant attitude puts them in a weird place, since they're nominally aligned with his political attitude but physically exposed to his dragnet against anyone with an unseasonable tan. Also, heaven help you if you're a queer Hispanic with conservative politics.

    But go down the rooster of the Jan 6th gang. Check out who some of Trump's most loyal supporters are in the House and Senate, particularly in Gulf states like Florida and Texas. You're going to find a lot of Hispanics. The Marines are a hotbed of reactionary politics and fascist attitudes, second only to the holy roller Christian nationalists in the Air Force.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've had a few ex military drinking buddies, all left leaning, oddly enough. Two of them were white bread suburban boys that figured it out, other was a black feller that just defaulted left.

    The fucking chair force sounds miserable with how far they've taken it. My buddy talked about goofy swords and rituals, IIRC.

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  • 1 in five are Hispanic(tbh, I did think it was more), but there was a noteworthy case in the news a while back about a spouse flying into Hawaii and getting deported to Australia. On that note, military members serve overseas a lot, and often marry locals, so the ethnicity stats don't tell the whole story.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Uh, the average level of American marksmanship that we've seen suggests that tyranny is perfectly safe.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    300 yards with iron sights on an AR platform is pretty tough. I'm assuming that's the shot you're referring to.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sorry they only fight against improving the lives of people not actual tyranny

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Oh they will rise up, but it will be on the side of tyranny.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    White supremacist organizations like the NRA are constantly working to impose tyranny.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    What do you expect from a bunch of terrorists?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    "From my cold dead hands!"

    They actually apparently want to die, not actually keep their guns.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, we all knew that the NRA was on the fascists' side, but what about all those leftist gun owners that kept spamming the "under no pretext" quote after every school shooting? Surely they'll be starting their glorious revolution any minute now, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Democrat-voting socialist here, this argument is fucking stupid because nothing is stopping the Left from also buying guns and doing what this post is implying. Y'all just want an easy target to hate and impotently complain online about, when you could also go buy a gun, organize, and stop tyranny yourself.

    Fuck Trump fuck Republicans, but also fuck Democrats, including you the person reading this, for being associated with gun fearing pussies who want other people to do the hard work for you.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    ICE is raiding the places with the strictest gun laws. Plenty of Hispanics here in the South, don't see them fucking with Georgia.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Blue states. They're raiding blue states and ignoring red states.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh no, they're all over fucking Texas. At least in the cities. San Antonio just had a BUNCH of people arrested at the Courthouses last week. Its fucking infuriating.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    at least in the cities

    You mean Houston, Dallas, Austin, El Paso, and San Antonio, the extremely large relatively blue cities?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, of course. That's a given. But the original comment implied that the feds are only fucking with blue states and immigrants are fine in places like Georgia.

    I was assuring that commenter that immigrants in Texas are indeed not okay. And where are they supposed to go? Run into the red counties surrounding the cities?

    Fuck. This state has the opportunity to be someone's first glimpse of America, and it chooses to portray a shitty, hateful, dangerous view of it. Makes me fucking sick. I feel so goddamned stuck. Fortunately though, the cities have been protesting as well. There was an anti-ICE protest in SATX this past weekend, and theres another one scheduled for Saturday.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh, of course. That’s a given. But the original comment implied that the feds are only fucking with blue states and immigrants are fine in places like Georgia.

    The idea is to target blue areas so they can put on a show of "doing something" about immigration while their base continues to see around the same number of brown people who don't speak English very well and so continues to believe that the "invasion" is ongoing and stronger action needs to be taken.

    I'll say this though - since Trump started doing heavy ICE enforcement I've noticed a lot fewer truck drivers who need a translation app to handle basic English. Makes me wonder if ICE has got them afraid of having to deal with DOT.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    And your point? One of these things is just like the other.

    CA and NYC seem to be top of the news and they clearly have the toughest gun laws. NYC may as well be in another country and CA is pretty ridiculous.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Are you suggesting they're afraid of gun owners firing on ICE to protect their undocumented neighbors? Or that the people they're detaining may defend themselves with force, even though undocumented immigrants can't purchase or possess firearms in red OR blue states?

    They're afraid of agitating their voters and losing votes. Guns have nothing to do with it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    ICE is raiding all over the country. Take a look at San Antonio, for example. The Trump Admin is loudest though about blue states, and you seem to be easily swayed by propaganda, so makes sense all you can hear is what Trump talks about

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    First off, go fuck yourself with all that. You will not paint me with your MAGA paintbrush.

    I can't even argue this shit with someone who clearly isn't watching the news.

    "Nuh uh! I have a couple of tiny exceptions that prove I'm right!"

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