Oceans Yet to Burn

For my part, I note that the Rightful Caliph of our community pointed out that American non-gun homicides are almost as high as total homicides in Western European countries, before you even add in the gun crime.

We have a lot of work to do in this country. I have some ideas, which some of you know if you’ve been reading this blog.

Guns laws themselves often seem relatively uncorrelated with crime.

And, over time, I’ve been shifting in favor of the second amendment, whereas in the past I wasn’t so sure about it.

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mitigatedchaos

@ranma-official

The reason the conservatives do not support a gun registry, which would otherwise be an entirely sane idea, is that it’s the first step in “round up all the guns.”

There is no “round up all the guns” without first knowing their locations. Going house to house doing a deep search is prohibitively expensive.

They’ll just hide them. There are so many guns in this country, the round-up won’t even get half of them.

Any event dramatic enough to make the current crop of conservatives agree to round up all the guns isn’t going to be small, either, and most of them would involve said conservatives not wanting to give up their guns.

Mass shootings? Mass shootings by Muslims? Not enough. The response has been to want guns even more in order to shoot back.

You’d need something bordering on an ethnic armed insurrection, at which point many of them would want guns to fight against the ethnic armed insurrection.

mitigatedchaos

It’s true that this hasn’t always been the case in the past, that previous gun control laws were deliberately racist.

However, the clock ticks Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican. Do the GOPpers trust that the following Democratic President will have their best interests in mind once the guns are gone? I’m guessing no.

So the kind of event we’re talking about, the one that convinces the current conservatives in this country to yield their firearms (and not bury them in boxes in their back yards) is likely one where Leftists start talking about how they need guns…

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@ranma-official

The reason the conservatives do not support a gun registry, which would otherwise be an entirely sane idea, is that it’s the first step in “round up all the guns.”

There is no “round up all the guns” without first knowing their locations. Going house to house doing a deep search is prohibitively expensive.

They’ll just hide them. There are so many guns in this country, the round-up won’t even get half of them.

Mass shootings? Mass shootings by Muslims? Not enough. The response has been to want guns even more in order to shoot back.

You’d need something bordering on an ethnic armed insurrection, at which point many of them would want guns to fight against the ethnic armed insurrection.

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The sad part is, once that little ideology-huffing guy leaves my image like the Anon asked, it will one day end up as part of a boomerpost on Twitter, where the ideology label is replaced with “DEMOCRAT PROPAGNDA”.

Its true use as a memetic ordnance does intend the first panel as a key part of the payload, but it lacks the full subtext without the rest of it:

The idea that Liberal Democracy is the natural moral order of the universe enables the very imperialism that people complain about, fucks up the countries that could have been made into real liberal democracies by that very imperialism, and gets people killed.

Against truth, we spread this idea of liberal democracy and human rights as the end of history, the final triumph of the Enlightenment ideals that reshaped our civilizations, out of fear that to do otherwise would result in a war of all against all. But this, too, had its consequences.

The Iraq War has dispelled this, for some.

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argumate

the camgirl discourse is interesting because it bumps into all these subterranean intuitions about women lacking power and moral agency which date back to when women were explicitly denied power and moral agency, plus the usual slut-shaming which typically lies beneath a thin veneer of weak sex positivity.

so when women choose to do sex work as independent operators without the traditional threat of male violence (pimps, street harassment, cops) and use the internet to cut out the middleman and simultaneously keep their customers at a safe distance, it completely upsets the apple cart.

the result tends to be discourse flailing around trying to find a patriarchal reason for why they feel compelled to engage in sex work in the first place, instead of doing something more meaningful and rewarding and yes less slutty dammit

mitigatedchaos

Legalize prostitution, ban adultery.

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Anonymous asked:

I hope you don't mind if I crop that picture of the guy inhaling The Idea That Liberal Democracy Is The Natural Moral Order Of The Universe, because it's so good.

Knock yourself out, Anon-kun.

Not literally, though, of course. If you huff too much from that inhaler you’ll have an overdose and start believing American newsmedia, so only inhale just the little bit that you need to keep your soul alive.

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rtrixie

Source: higher-order politics

mailadreapta

supersleepyzahra

America: *destroys a country*
America: Damn…this country needs some help. these poor people….
America: *destroys it again*
America: Yikes, there’s no helping here

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