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Did you ever find it weird that it's the pro-gun pro-rights republicans that are attacking the courts? Americans have some very weird thinking over guns. I thi

Did you ever find it weird that it's the pro-gun pro-rights republicans that are attacking the courts? Americans have some very weird thinking over guns. I think if they were taken away, they'd have to work harder at getting along with other people (esp women, minorities, china), and therefore get better at it. It's really not a coincidence that it's the pro-gun Americans who killed Roe v Wade. Their ancestors owned slaves. They love to say it's about "rights", but it's clearly not.

lazide 1y ago
The courts don’t work in China or Russia either. It doesn’t surprise me that those capable (and willing!) of defending themselves would rugpull everyone else if it gave them what they wanted. What surprises me is how everyone else sits back and lets them and refuses to actually take action to defend themselves, while going ‘woe is me, why won’t anyone do something’. And acting surprised that the people they’ve been screaming are going to do bad things actually do bad things. It’s embarrassing. Just like you are apparently advocating for a dictator to ‘save us’, from…. ourselves? Or something? At least the Trumpers are transparently doing it for personal gain, near as I can tell you’re just doing it for some kind of do gooder fantasy? They tend to be even worse, in practice.
- Herring 1y ago
  Read the article. The world moves on & paths around damage. At the end of the day Trump won the popular vote. This country has been headed that way for a long time - http://web.archive.org/web/20210723035356/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/how-stop-minority-rule-doom-loop/618536/ http://web.archive.org/web/20210723035356/https://www.theatl... Americans won't listen to sense, so it's a lot easier to move to Europe than to start another Civil War. And for the record I'm advocating something like a worldwide federal system. You think that's a dictatorship because that's how your mind works. There are hundreds of good examples, but you tunnel vision on two exceptions. Nothing I can do about that bit of damage except to move on from this conversation.
  - lazide 1y ago
    I still can’t figure out what you’re trying to actually say. ‘Move to Europe’ isn’t a political solution for the US. And right now we have clear examples of a US federal gov’t trying to stomp on state and city level rights - which is why we are talking? And a historical civil war, where one group imposed rules on the other. Which of course is going to happen if you have diverse economies and ideas of what is acceptable and try to weld them together under one government. Which is what you are proposing. What do you think is going to happen if you try to get Egypt, China, Russia, France, Brazil, USA, India, etc. to actually have a common set of enforced rules? And in both the Russian and Chinese ‘federal systems’ it’s absolutely expected they will. The EU is the only one I can think of where there isn’t a common military - for example - and that one is far from proving the test of time.

lazide 1y ago

The courts don’t work in China or Russia either. It doesn’t surprise me that those capable (and willing!) of defending themselves would rugpull everyone else if it gave them what they wanted. What surprises me is how everyone else sits back and lets them and refuses to actually take action to defend themselves, while going ‘woe is me, why won’t anyone do something’. And acting surprised that the people they’ve been screaming are going to do bad things actually do bad things. It’s embarrassing. Just like you are apparently advocating for a dictator to ‘save us’, from…. ourselves? Or something? At least the Trumpers are transparently doing it for personal gain, near as I can tell you’re just doing it for some kind of do gooder fantasy? They tend to be even worse, in practice.

Herring 1y ago
Read the article. The world moves on & paths around damage. At the end of the day Trump won the popular vote. This country has been headed that way for a long time - http://web.archive.org/web/20210723035356/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/how-stop-minority-rule-doom-loop/618536/ http://web.archive.org/web/20210723035356/https://www.theatl... Americans won't listen to sense, so it's a lot easier to move to Europe than to start another Civil War. And for the record I'm advocating something like a worldwide federal system. You think that's a dictatorship because that's how your mind works. There are hundreds of good examples, but you tunnel vision on two exceptions. Nothing I can do about that bit of damage except to move on from this conversation.
- lazide 1y ago
  I still can’t figure out what you’re trying to actually say. ‘Move to Europe’ isn’t a political solution for the US. And right now we have clear examples of a US federal gov’t trying to stomp on state and city level rights - which is why we are talking? And a historical civil war, where one group imposed rules on the other. Which of course is going to happen if you have diverse economies and ideas of what is acceptable and try to weld them together under one government. Which is what you are proposing. What do you think is going to happen if you try to get Egypt, China, Russia, France, Brazil, USA, India, etc. to actually have a common set of enforced rules? And in both the Russian and Chinese ‘federal systems’ it’s absolutely expected they will. The EU is the only one I can think of where there isn’t a common military - for example - and that one is far from proving the test of time.