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sdkfjhdsjk
7mo ago
There's a reason why the majority of Americans don't bother voting. It has nothing to do with laziness or apathy. It's because voting does not matter, and never did. It's like one of those kid steering wheels that lets t
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sdkfjhdsjk
7mo ago
So your thesis is that this hillbilly was likely to take his fully automatic paintball gun and shoot up a school with it? Or that his possession and use of this gun might somehow serve as a sort of "gateway drug" to Harder Weapons
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sdkfjhdsjk
7mo ago
The U.S. is certainly not a wealthy country, and California most definitely is not, when measured by miles of homeless camps, crime, hobos, pollution. There's a reason why the crowds are moving out of California and similar places and
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sdkfjhdsjk
7mo ago
The question I ask myself is, do I want to live in California? The answer is no. Not even for a short time.
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sdkfjhdsjk
8mo ago
As a Southern American I love it too. Every single one of my ancestors who were in the war--except one--fought for the Confederacy in the War Between the States. (Or the War of Lincoln's Aggression, according to some. Yankees call it t
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sdkfjhdsjk
8mo ago
Now you're getting it. You have exactly identified the problem. Instead of identifying and addressing the real problems--mass unemployment, homelessness, hopelessness--your dystopic "solution" is simply more and bigger jails,
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sdkfjhdsjk
8mo ago
Tell me more about the US government.
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sdkfjhdsjk
8mo ago
I remember reading about that back in the 90s as a kid here in the USA, in Action Pursuit Games magazine. They said semi-automatic paintball guns were illegal in Australia. I was like what kind of hellhole dystopia is that? Meanwhile at the
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8mo ago
I am in the USA (regrettably--my nation was conquered and subjugated long ago) and it IS dystopian, but there IS an alternative. The alternative is stay far away from digital slavery. Keep out of the slaughterhouse. Never approach it, and d