Carmakazi

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The US being the bad guys in the Korean conflict is an interesting take that I wouldn't expect anyone outside of lemmygrad to espouse, care to elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think with these kinds of suits the core conceit is that gun manufacturing/sales is a sordid, immoral business along the lines of cigarettes, and that the very existence of a consumer market for their product implies their misuse and negative impact on society. Therefore, they should bear more responsibility for that impact.

They were emboldened by the suit against Bushmaster/Remington that succeeded and ultimately bankrupted Freedom Group.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It does not take much effort to throw some 3rd party troll farm a few dimes a post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

One, it does give some room to dismiss accusations, even if just rhetorically.

Two, when you are able to coerce your subjects to say the sky is green, the sun sets in the East, and Dear Leader won the election, its an exercise of power over them. It feeds the ego and it becomes a litmus test for the disloyal.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Understand that some or most of the key posters there are literally pawns of Russian or Chinese intelligence. Troll farms, wumao, what have you. Whether they are literally government employees or contracted through a third party, their purpose is to astroturf positive optics of their employer and negative optics of the US/the West as a whole. A more sinister interpretation, they are trying to destabilize the West by doing things like trashing Biden, now Harris, hoping to secure a chaotic and inwardly destructive Trump presidency.

Anything they say is to service these goals, anything they believe is mutable to these goals, and nothing they argue is in good faith.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Ignoring that sexist trash in the beginning, AIPAC doesn't just reward compliant behavior from politicians, they also use the same vast resources to relentlessly punish dissent on their pet issues. Being an anti-Israel candidate is suicide with them around. They are a hundred pound weight on the scales of our political machine.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

It probably was fake. I'd imagine the people who are selected for these assignments are borderline or complete sociopaths who don't have problems putting their mission above their entanglements.

If these kids are old enough to have any sense they aught to flee the first chance they get.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I worry that they felt confident laying this out because they believe the fix is in, and that no popular resistance is going to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like there's a followup with that fucking dragon as the giant hologram, and I'm trying not to imagine it.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Conservatives believe that childless people, but childless women in particular, are shirking their moral duties as good citizens and good children of God. They are therefore of lesser value in the social hierarchy.

Factories need their servants, armies need their fodder. And don't forget about reversing the Great Replacement...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

These days, look for any family in America with 5 or more minor children and find a "devout Christian" as the patriarch.

Mormons are famous for this, and they support their breeder mentality by tapping into the same government resources they say they despise, sometimes venturing into fraud.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Reading the article he also said that parents should be able to cast votes on behalf of their minor children, which is much more alarming to me.

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