#gun control is oppression

[blackwolfmanx4]

Biden Claims Gun Charges Never Get Jail Time | Hunter Biden Pardon

[azzy-the-christian-furry]

The largest mass shooting in American history was committed by the government as they were enforcing gun control on a persecuted populace.

I am referring to the Wounded Knee Massacre.

[lesbosaur1]

Just Gonna Drop This Here

[soulofkole]

I missed land back. 😢

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I noticed that over the years there are 3 types of ancoms/anarcho syndicalists. *

*I use those terms interchangeably because they have the same flag. They look the same to me tbh.

Here they are:

Actually, principled ancom/anarcho syndicalist.

Closet tankie: They hate capitalism more than the state and tend to be apologists for a lot of socialist dictatorships.

Anarcho-social democrat: A socdem that just wants an edgy aesthetic. They will huff and puff about how edgy they are but when you really press them on what they want they just want social democracy like Sweden.

[blackwolfmanx4]

How Trump is ALREADY "making America great again"

4D chess, for real this time!

[lhsongstudio]

History was made by refusing to give up the front seat. History will be made by refusing to give in to unjust power.

[azzy-the-christian-furry]

Wow, way to compare apples to Apache attack helicopters, OP.

Thing is, there was never a “right” to own slaves. Human rights are inherent. The idea that you have a right to own another human being, much like the idea you have a right to murder your own offspring, is just blatantly wrong.

The right to bear arms preserves freedom. The ones wanting to infringe upon that right (all gun laws are infringements, btw) are the same ones who would say they have a right to own people and murder their own children (they don’t have that right. It isn’t a right.)

Lot of the “old white men” you’re complaining about were also anti-slavery, by the way. Even ignoring that the Constitution doesn’t grant rights (“human rights are inherent”), let’s not forget the same people agreed on the Declaration of Independence which states that everyone has a God-given right to life (baby murder advocates hate that), liberty (leftists hate that), and pursuit of happiness

"We have a right to bear arms so every gun control law is an infringement."

You used to have a rigth to own slaves and alnowledging all people's freedom was an infringement to that.

A bunch of white men writing down something more than 200 years ago doesn't mean it is right.

[toaarcan]

One thing I find interesting is that the villains of Campaign 3 and the people that agree with them see the gods as these oppressive figures that sit on a throne above everyone else and rule over them as tyrants.

But the thing is that the gods aren't ruling things. They sequestered themselves behind the Divine Gate and now only intervene when asked for aid by believers or when directly threatened by jackasses pointing guns at them. Several of the gods have become more active and militant during C3, but what we're seeing are reactions to the threat being leveled at them.

The throne that those opposed to the gods speak of is vacant. They abdicated it and left their children largely to their own devices, but that's not enough for some people. And if they leave or die, that vacant throne isn't going to stay vacant. Whether Ludinus wants it for himself or not, plenty of his subordinates do. So do a fuckton of nasty things that are more powerful than mortal wizards and less powerful than the gods.

The choice isn't between "Yes Tyrannical Gods or No Tyrannical Gods", it's a choice between "Mostly-Absentee Gods or World Ruled By Grand Demons/Unseelie/Archdevils/Elder Evils."

(I also think comparing the presence of the gods to a feudalistic power structure is a clever trick to get people to view their existence as an injustice, when really a more apt comparison is a food chain. They're part of the natural state of Exandria as it has come to be, and removing them from it will cause a trophic cascade as the things they kept in check, like the fiends and fey and Tharizdun, will go out of control and ruin things for everyone else. You don't kill an orca because its existence is unfair to seals.)

[caplanbuckybarnes]

Rescue Me (Bucky Barnes)

Summary: you vowed to rescue Bucky. No matter what it took.

Warnings: imprisonment, angst, gun shot wounds

WC: 1k

A/N: i have a few more MCU fics to post after this one in the next few days/weeks. I do not plan on writing for MCU anymore after February 2025.

Read on ao3!

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The night was thick with tension as you stood outside the HYDRA facility. The cold wind nipped at your skin, but your heart raced with a heat that had nothing to do with the chill. The Avengers didn’t understand. They hadn’t been there—hadn’t seen Bucky for what he truly was. He wasn’t the Winter Soldier anymore. He wasn’t their weapon.

Bucky was yours.

You had known him long before the Avengers ever did, back before HYDRA had twisted him into a killer, before they stole the man he once was. You’d met him when he was still a soldier, still human. And when he disappeared, when the world lost track of him, you never stopped looking for him.

The Avengers had their reasons for wanting to leave this to the professionals. Steve, especially, had been vocal about it—his voice tight with frustration as he tried to explain that Bucky was too dangerous. “We’re not sure what we’ll find in there, Y/N,” he’d warned you. “HYDRA’s still got control over him. We can’t risk you getting in the middle of this.”

But you knew better. You knew Bucky’s heart, his soul. He wasn’t lost. Not yet.

The facility in front of you was dark and ominous, every inch of it covered in secrets and pain, snow and icicles. It was no place for anyone, especially someone like Bucky. But you were certain. If anyone could bring him back, it was you.

The last thing you remembered was slipping inside the compound, heart pounding as you carefully avoided the guards, your movements swift and practiced. You’d been through this before. But you’d underestimated one thing—the quiet, steel-eyed agents who’d already been waiting for someone like you.

The sting of a needle in your neck was the last thing you felt before the world went black.

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You woke in a cold, dimly lit cell, the air thick with the smell of metal and stale water. Your wrists were shackled to the wall, your head pounding from the sedative. You couldn’t believe you had been caught. You had to get out of here.

But as your mind began to clear, something else hit you: Bucky. Where was he?

You strained against your restraints, trying to focus through the haze of confusion. You couldn’t afford to panic. The team would be looking for you, but you weren’t sure if they even knew you’d come here, let alone gotten caught. They wouldn’t come for you—not without confirmation that you were in danger. But you knew that Bucky was still here. You could feel it in your bones.

And that was when you heard it—the low sound of chains scraping against the floor.

You froze.

“Bucky?” you whispered, your voice barely audible in the oppressive silence.

There was a grunt, followed by a low, rasping voice. “You shouldn’t have come here.”

Your heart skipped a beat as Bucky stepped into the dim light of the cell across from you. His face was gaunt, his eyes wide and wild with a mixture of exhaustion and something far darker. The metal arm that once belonged to him seemed to weigh him down, the chains wrapped around his body like the remnants of his former self.

“Bucky…” you breathed, struggling against your restraints, not caring about the pain in your arms as you reached out for him. “I’m not leaving without you.”

He shook his head, his eyes flickering with something almost like despair. “I’m a weapon, Y/N. You shouldn’t be here.”

You swallowed hard, not breaking eye contact. “I’m here because I know you, Bucky. I’m not leaving without you, no matter what they’ve done to you.”

He stepped closer, his gaze flickering between you and the bars separating you. “They won’t stop coming for you, if you stay.” His voice was low, gravelly, the weight of his words sinking deep into your chest. “I’ve done things. Terrible things. You don’t deserve this.”

“You’re not that man anymore,” you said, your voice soft but steady. “You’re not him. And I’m not leaving you here to rot. We’ll get out of here together, I promise.”

For a moment, the silence was deafening. Then, with a sharp jerk of his arm, Bucky broke his chains. The sound of metal snapping echoed through the empty halls. His eyes were wild, filled with a glimmer of hope.

“I don’t deserve you,” he whispered, his voice almost lost.

“You don’t have to deserve me,” you said, pulling yourself toward him with everything you had left. “You never have to deserve me.”

Before he could respond, the sound of approaching footsteps filled the hall. The guards were coming.

“We don’t have much time,” Bucky said, his voice tight. He rushed to the cell door and quickly picked the lock, setting you free. “Let’s move.”

You followed him through the halls, your heart pounding in your chest. The further you went, the more the compound seemed to come alive with danger. But you weren’t worried. You had Bucky by your side, and together, you could escape.

But then, just as you thought you were in the clear, a gunshot rang out, and Bucky pushed you into the shadows.

“No!” you gasped, looking at him. His body jerked, and he winced in pain, but he didn’t fall. He didn’t stop.

“We need to go,” he gritted, pulling you deeper into the shadows. “Now.”

It wasn’t until you were nearly to the exit that the Avengers arrived. Steve’s face went pale when he saw you, but there was no time for questions. The team surrounded you both, offering protection as they fought off the remaining HYDRA agents.

“I told you I was going to get him,” you said to Steve, your voice a mix of relief and frustration.

Steve nodded, his expression softening. “I never doubted you for a second.”

But there was still work to be done. Bucky wasn’t out of the woods yet. The battle was only beginning. But for now, he was free. And so were you.

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[vines-are-plant-tentacles]

Propaganda for each:

Shinzo Abe's assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, constructed a homemade gun after the Moonies church defrauded his family for their entire life savings, a story too common in Japan until the assassination. Shinzo Abe was, in addition to being far right, tightly tied to the Moonies cult and directly supported them as Prime Minister. Following the assassination Yamagami was immediately arrested but the public widely recognized his assassination as a good move and following it sweeping legislative changes were made to hamper the cult. Of note, due to Japan's strict gun control laws, Yamagami home built his weapon, including partially 3D printing it, truly demonstrating the will and ingenuity of humans to buck oppression.

United Healthcare CEO's assassin targeted the ceo for reasons plainly obvious to all Americans across the political aisle. Speculation was made that this was a professional hit but coming evidence continues to make this seem unlikely. The assassin so far has not been caught. Additionally he carved Deny, Defend, Depose onto the shells of his bullets, plainly conveying the political and personal nature of the assassination. The consequences of this assassination haven't been fully felt yet but other health insurance companies are already beginning to reverse policy decisions in light of the new landscape this brave man has stepped onto.

[societyslostone]

Make the Captain proud.

Make bigots scared

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

[probablyasocialecologist]

How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite? How can you explain that the Israeli occupation doesn’t have to resort to explosions—or even bullets and machine-guns—to kill? That occupation and apartheid structure and saturate the everyday life of every Palestinian? That the results are literally murderous even when no shots are fired? Cancer patients in Gaza are cut off from life-saving treatments. Babies whose mothers are denied passage by Israeli troops are born in the mud by the side of the road at Israeli military checkpoints. Between 2000 and 2004, at the peak of the Israeli roadblock-and-checkpoint regime in the West Bank (which has been reimposed with a vengeance), sixty-one Palestinian women gave birth this way; thirty-six of those babies died as a result.That never constituted news in the Western world. Those weren’t losses to be mourned. They were, at most, statistics. What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 2023, and if you place what’s happening in the wider historical context of colonialism and anticolonial resistance, what’s most remarkable is that anyone in 2023 should be still surprised that conditions of absolute violence, domination, suffocation, and control produce appalling violence in turn. During the Haitian revolution in the early 19th century, former slaves massacred white settler men, women, and children. During Nat Turner’s revolt in 1831, insurgent slaves massacred white men, women, and children. During the Indian uprising of 1857, Indian rebels massacred English men, women, and children. During the Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s, Kenyan rebels massacred settler men, women, and children. At Oran in 1962, Algerian revolutionaries massacred French men, women, and children. Why should anyone expect Palestinians—or anyone else—to be different? To point these things out is not to justify them; it is to understand them. Every single one of these massacres was the result of decades or centuries of colonial violence and oppression, a structure of violence Frantz Fanon explained decades ago in The Wretched of the Earth. What we are not allowed to say, in other words, is that if you want the violence to stop, you must stop the conditions that produced it. You must stop the hideous system of racial segregation, dispossession, occupation, and apartheid that has disfigured and tormented Palestine since 1948, consequent upon the violent project to transform a land that has always been home to many cultures, faiths, and languages into a state with a monolithic identity that requires the marginalization or outright removal of anyone who doesn’t fit. And that while what’s happening in Gaza today is a consequence of decades of settler-colonial violence and must be placed in the broader history of that violence to be understood, it has taken us to places to which the entire history of colonialism has never taken us before.

[fairuzfan]

What kills me about this person is that they admit the Palestinians are occupied and israel is an occupying force but they still manage to blame the occupied for the circumstances the occupier inflicts on them. And this is what drives me up a wall about liberal zionists. They admit that israel is occupying Palestine and and that the occupation must end but it's all just... buzzwords to them. They think the occupied and occupier need to work together to end the occupation and that occupation is some set of rules that a government imposes on people when it's a systematic violence that's perpetuated even by civilians who are determined a "higher class" than the occupied. Like they're willing to admit the occupation is bad and should not happen but that's as far as they're willing to admit. They are completely unwilling to even say that Palestinians are oppressed by Israelis (yes, all Palestinians are oppressed by all israelis, it's not a statement of morality its a statement of relationships between two groups of people) and are insisting that Palestinians are to blame for the occupation, on some level.

And this is not an exaggeration. Because they do say "israelis see the apartheid was as a security wall to stop the suicide bombings so you can understand how israelis feel about palestinians" but the occupied are constantly expected to make room for their occupiers' feelings. Like in every single instance. Even when talking about "peace" (which is never really peace, just a quieter occupation) Palestinians are expected to "hold up their side of the deal" in order to gain basic rights. Like they're constantly told "Well israelis are afraid that you'll kill them so you gotta promise to be nice and then we will stop shoving a gun in your face" as if the Palestinians hold any sort of meaningful structural power over israelis.

Like, I'm sorry but there's not a reality in which Palestinians oppress israelis in this entire world. None. We have no structural power compared to israelis. We will always be bottom rung compared to them, we will always be guilty before proved innocent, we will always have the gun in our faces, we will always be bombed and bombed and bombed and starved and bombed and no structural power will help us. Sorry if this is a hard truth to swallow but Palestinians are oppressed by israelis. Even HAMAS (the favorite israeli boogieman) is oppressed by israelis. Because that's the nature of the world. The occupied are, by definition, oppressed. The people who are blockaded and their food and water are controlled by an occupying entity are the oppressed people. So it's like, even if you want to argue the "shared humanity" route, you have to acknowledge that oppression is structural and enduring and that every Palestinian IN THE WORLD experiences oppression from israelis and those that ally themselves with israelis. Otherwise, your hollow statements of "wanting to end the occupation" just sound to me like you really don't understand that the occupation is present in every aspect of Palestinian life and that, unfortunately, israelis have to do more than tear down the apartheid wall and the settlements and the checkpoints and have to fundamentally reshape society if they want *real* peace.

But the sad part is, they don't really care about actually helping Palestinians, they care about seeming "moral" and "doing the right thing" but they've made up their minds about what doing the right thing is without even speaking to Palestinians about it. Or I should say, caring about speaking to Palestinians about it.

[blackwolfmanx4]

A DARK MAGA reality (the duopoly won't tell you)

Stop pretending that Trump is anti establishment.

[cranberrysaucebauce]

Not even something bad. Just minorities openly stating they plan to arm themselves for their own protection and exercise their second amendment rights has bigots getting sweaty