• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    It was the faux 2A who go to the range for a photoshoot and buy the Gucci gear who voted for Trump.

    I am FINALLY starting to see some guntubers start to call this shit out, and call attention to the fact that their community is getting overrun with people who don’t actually care about proper gun safety and laws, and are only there for the politics and “masculinity” around having guns.

    I hope this continues. I was first to speak up that we needed better gun laws in the US, but I also am a gun owner and have always been really disappointed how guns became a political issue and not a guarantee that these political issues don’t overpower us and take away all our rights.

    The left needs to arm the fuck up. Political capital comes from force and patriotism, it’s a fucking shame the worst people have taken our most powerful tools for change in the US and used them to get us here.

    The vast swaths of tuned-out, comfortable, liberal America look at two sides, the right kissing the flag and promising to defend the country with their lives, and then they look to the left, spitting on the flag and demanding de-armement, and they make a choice which makes them feel safer. It’s utterly stupid that they have this binary vision, but we have to understand how power comes from this perception, and we don’t win without power.