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US American Democrats aren't much better. I mean, sure, pro-choice, environmental policies, etc, but their economic policies? Haven't been great for the working class at least since Bill Clinton's era.
*It seems like I have to explain myself, I'm a socialist. I'm very left leaning, very pro regulations, it doesn't trickle down. Bill Clinton signed NAFTA, he was very openly Neoliberal. (And, btw, Don't Ask Don't Tell was also from his era). Obama, however charming, did little to bring the dignity of work back to the US, he instead played the respectability politics, pull yourself up by the bootstraps through higher education (which was not available for everyone).
Our progressives still have to be fairly conservative to pull in the swing voters we need to keep batshit Republicans at bay. The Overton window has some fucking miles on it here in the US
It's often a push and pull. The US "progressives" was pulled to the right, which pushed the "conservatives" further to the right. From the outside looking in, it seems that the new anti-abortion laws are proving to be unpopular, which might just pull conservatives back to the centre of this particular issue, and then the progressives can go further left again.
For activism, whichever side you're on, they must always ask for a lot right now, to get a little very soon. It goes both ways.
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It's their firearms policy for me, the economic stuff is just the icing on the cake. I'm literally in the industry, so I know a thing or two about firearms and the laws regarding them, and watching the democrat party be so wrong about the basic functionality of a semi auto rifle or the current laws we already have, or what the one they're proposing will do (spoiler alert: it'll disproportionately affect minorities just like drug laws and stop and frisk) that they're either intentionally misleading the public or have no business making decisions on the matter as they are woefully uninformed has made it so now I can't trust anything they say. It'd be like if you know a lot about cars and then I come on talking about how a catback makes your car faster and more deadly should you try to Charlestown someone so we need to ban them, immediately you'd know I'm a moron and disregard everything I say, same for the entire dem party and firearms.
Firearms usage in the US is dysfunctional anyway. It causes heightened tensions in every situation. I don't know how it can ever be better.
Well tbf I'd rather be heightened than stabbed, and the presence of a firearm has prevented me from being stabbed at least once, so net win.
I guess the stabber was afraid that you had a firearm, that's why they tried to stab you? To avoid getting shot first?
Well, besides the fact that that is a very poor plan that is more likely to get you shot than "leaving someone alone," you should look into the concept of "concealed" carry. Idk, maybe he did have X-Ray vision, but somehow I doubt that.
I never owned a gun in my life, but I also have never lived in a country where guns are widely available. Well, I lived in Brazil for a spell, but not in a gun toting neighbourhood, though some of the farmers had air rifles
Cool, but I assume you're still able to connect the concept of "concealed" to your theory to see that it has pretty big holes. He didn't know I had a gun until he pulled a knife on me and I showed him, so he couldn't have pulled it in effort to murder me at for being an open carrying person minding their business, as I was concealed carrying not open carrying.
Furthermore, once he saw it, he decided to leave for some strange reason, so that's another hole in the theory that he likes to use inferior armaments to murder innocent people for having a different armament than he does.
Your theory is flawed,
sirindividual.Okay. I'm not a man, by the way, and there are dozens of us out here. Dozens!
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Politicians are idiots, but there are plenty of gun lovers on the left. Sweeping bans will be massively unpopular and won't happen. Nobody left wants to push effective legislation and the right will fight absolutely everything tooth and nail.
Yeah, it's the democrat party (which leftists often argue isn't "left," so take that how you will) that is the issue on that. I'm aware of the SRA and such.