#gun control is oppression

[blackwolfmanx4]

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

Stop pretending that Trump is anti establishment.

[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

[kolethecrone]

I missed land back. 😢

[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.

[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.

[drumlincountry]

[Redacted for confidentiality reasons] But yeah one of my coworkers was threatened with a gun the other day. So I guess we ARE challenging things.

[katamarigender]

Sometimes I wish that every (very not oppressed) person who talks about their supposed constant suffering was actually being hurt by society and the government in the ways that they think they are. Because then maybe they would show an ounce of compassion towards the people who are ACTUALLY being oppressed by their governments and society.

[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

[lhsongstudio]

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

[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.)

[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

[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.

[multi-fandoms-posts]

Shackles of Desire

X Men Masterlist

The night is still and oppressive as Paddy and The Killer bring Y/N into their hideout. She lies bound on an old sofa, the air thick with tension. Paddy stands nearby, his posture rigid and threatening as he fixes his icy gaze on Y/N. His presence is intimidating, almost brutal, while he speaks quietly with The Killer.

“She better not try anything,” Paddy says, his voice low and menacing. “If she thinks she can escape, she’ll regret it.”

The Killer nods silently, his hand resting on the weapon in his belt, but he seems much calmer than Paddy, who simmers with energy and barely contained violence.

Yet Y/N, lying on the sofa, is unfazed. She has already started to loosen the ropes around her wrists. The men are so engrossed in their conversation, they don’t notice. Once free, she rises slowly and stands before them.

“Well, boys,” she says with a broad, confident grin. “I might like bondage, but not this kind.”

Paddy whirls around, his face hardening into a mask of anger. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” he growls, his voice dripping with fury.

He immediately grabs the gun from his belt and points it at Y/N. The threat in his eyes is unmistakable, the violence within him seemingly ready to erupt at any moment.

But Y/N doesn’t flinch. Her grin only widens as she steps closer to him without hesitation. “You really think that’s going to stop me?” she asks calmly, brushing her fingers across his chest.

Paddy freezes. He expects anything but Y/N behaving like this. His fingers tighten around the gun’s grip, but he doesn’t move as Y/N leans in and presses her lips to his. The kiss is sudden and demanding, and even Paddy, who never yields to anyone, is momentarily caught off guard.

The Killer watches silently, his eyes widening slightly, but he remains still. As Y/N pulls away from Paddy, she looks directly at The Killer and grins.

“And you?” she asks seductively. “Do you want to try it too?”

The Killer raises his eyebrows slightly but says nothing as Y/N slowly walks toward him. With the same cool confidence, she places her hands on his chest before suddenly kissing him as well. He doesn’t respond immediately, but his rigid stance softens for a moment.

Paddy watches the scene through gritted teeth. His anger is still palpable, but something about Y/N’s behavior has thrown him off balance. He rubs a hand over his face, staring at her as if trying to comprehend what just happened.

“What... do you think you’re accomplishing with this?” Paddy finally growls, his voice dangerously quiet.

Y/N steps back, her eyes gleaming with confidence. “Maybe I just want to see how far you both are willing to go,” she says casually. “Or maybe I’ve just flipped the game.”

The tension in the room is unbearable. Paddy and The Killer are men accustomed to violence, but Y/N has surprised them in a way they didn’t expect. And in this moment, it’s Y/N who holds the control, at least for now.

The night is far from over, and the lines between violence, power, and desire are beginning to blur.

[muncedes]

this! florida is and remains a red (republican) state - desantis just signed a law banning abortions after six weeks and yet while the war on woman continues to take place no one has once questioned why races continue to take place in miami.

not to mention said race is filled with little to no fans and is not meant for the general public due to price gouging. it continues to be filled with brands, investors, influencers, athletes and the top 1%. it’s not for “fans” and never has been.

there continues to be a negative light shined onto any discourse surrounding bringing f1 to any middle eastern location while the US is holding 3 races and 2/3 of the states continue to oppress women, violate human rights, incite racist, homophobic, sexist behavior, and are a hub for disbelieving in the need for gun control. but whatever makes the sport money, right?