Thank you! Has no one else noticed he’s clearly on a leash now?! He not spewing toddler nonsense 20 times a day, hardly speaking in public, all that?

Has no one noticed how much more efficient his government is this time?

Can we stop with the “introduces bill” stories? Does no one know how our legislatures work?! Any damned idiot can “introduce” any damned thing. That doesn’t mean it even hits the floor for a vote, far from it. This won’t even make it to, or out of, committee. Yes, even in Oklahoma.

Radical legislative proposals like this are performative bullshit. “I sure tried to stop the rampant immorality, but those liberals stopped us again! Vote for me please.” (Notice I tried, but they stopped us. I’m the hero; the bad guys screwed you.)

Easy money.

“It’s cold as fuck because a monster bolus of hot air hit the arctic from the other side of the planet, sent a chunk of the polar vortex down here. Heat directly caused this. Did you have a problem with the word ‘bolus’, or perhaps understanding the Earth is spherical? Was ‘spherical’ too big a word? I can dumb this down if need be.”

I’ll get downvoted for this, with no explanation, because it’s happened here and on reddit.

I’m a liberal gun nut. Most of my limited YouTube is watching gun related news and such. You would think I’d be overrun with right-wing bullshit, but I am not. I have no idea why this is. Can anyone explain? Maybe because I stick to the non-politcal, mainstream guntubers?

The only thing I’ve seen start to push me to the right was watching survival videos. Not some, “dems gonna kill us all” bullshit, simply normal, factual stuff about how to survive without society. That got weird fast.

Experienced certain death if you do not make a choice in seconds. Not, “My gosh! I might get punched in the face!” scared, I mean, “Figure this out or you’re dying, right this instant.”

It’s nice to have a preview of your personal extinction, and it’s really nice knowing you will do your best at that time.

tl;dr: Saved my own life twice, maybe three times.

Gorilla products are top of the line in every way, every product. Now that I’m broke I can’t buy their shit anymore, but it’s well worth the $.

Don’t think that hasn’t been on my mind the past many years. I’m the perfect spy; middle-aged, white, gun nut, can talk the talk, got the accent, know their memes.

I know what I’m brave about and when I’ll cower. This guy got more balls than me. We should all read this.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

LOL, made the mod mad. Well, we all know how to read [removed by mod], since mod was kind enough to draw attention to the post.

Apparently talking about self-defense is “Advocating violence.” I guess if you’re a total pansy?

Yo mod. Blacks, women and LGBT folks have been the largest gun purchasing demographic for years now. Got anything to say about that?

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I knew my great-grandmother, few people do. My great-great-grandmother is an ancient picture on the wall of my dead grandmother’s house, from a time when photography was new, a scant few years past daguerreotypes.

4 mothers back is all I can summon, only remember 3.

We already knew. The important thing OP pondered on was the reflexive nature of it. I agree with OP, not certain that was planned, the fascist just came out.

I am well aware. But you can see how this turns into an excuse for Red Shirts, Committees of Public Safety and the like?

“We just can’t keep this under control! Sign up at your local MAGA office to help save the country!”

This shit is nearly as old as human civilization.

The administration isn’t going to move that fast because they can’t, not nearly enough boots. Plus, they know damned well they can’t flush 13,000,000 slaves out of the system without crashing it.

The idea is to scare them into submission. Not sure how you get illegal immigrants more submissive, but that’s the plan, put them in their place. And then?

Maybe they’re aiming for literal slave labor, à la concentration camps? I honestly can’t see the end game. Yes, illegal immigration is a problem for the US. (Ban incoming!) Yes, it’s a problem for the immigrants. (We don’t talk about that.) But I’m not seeing the MAGA end-game here.

Before someone pops off a one-liner meme answer, think on it first. What’s their end game? “Illegal” slavery seems to be working fine. Why disrupt that and crash the economy? Yes, hate of the “other” gets votes, but what are the real players playing?

And that is exactly why they’ll be recruiting Red Shirts. Been saying this for years.

Just a month or so ago Steve Bannon said on his podcast that there aren’t enough boots and they would have to draw on “local volunteers” to fill the gaps.

Do what that information as you will. As for me and my house, I’m armed and trained. Scared shitless, but I will shoot back.

Fine. He found it in himself and deleted it. My comment still stands.

Y’all don’t even read these posts, do you?

it’s quite telling that he instinctively used that gesture

OP nailed it. I doubt his dumbass went up there intending to throw that, but the gesture is clearly part of his “vocabulary”. It’s both hilarious and sad that people think Musk and Trump work with deep calculation.

But of course, you feel OP is defending Musk, or at least giving him the benefit of the doubt. So we get treated to pic #516 comparing salutes. We know.

Exactly. And then he removed it and went looking for it’s origins. Don’t overthink his bullshit, it’s pretty plain.

He’s saying he found the virus in himself and overcame it. It’s a call for introspection. Then he’s trying to trace it back to it’s origins.

“I woke up and fixed myself! Now, where did these dastardly ideas come from?”

Probably thought it was profound on a drug trip of some sort. “Hey man! What if we could get all the nerds on our side? I’ll show them I’m cool too!”

Y’all are way over analyzing this shit.

Along the lines of my thoughts.

it’s quite telling that he instinctively used that gesture

There it is. People that don’t go walking around saying N*****, don’t accidentally slip it into conversation. Same here. Even if unintentional in the moment, well, he obviously walks around saying N*****. That gesture was clearly part of his “vocabulary”. You get it.

And if it was merely an exuberant, “Fuck yeah!” thing, damn near every American ever would have done it with a fist. Been walking America for 54 years, never seen that salute unless it was a jokey “Heil Hitler” move.

And… of course lemmy downvotes you for trying to discuss this. Comrade, you must immediately and perfectly toe the party line. That first sentence made these morons think you’re a sympathizer. We don’t read past the first phrase around here. If you had put your last sentence first, you would have been golden. (Gods, lemmy users are child’s play to manipulate.)

Yeah, but I can’t afford 2TB of SSD, and I need to expand soon.