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@Annoyed___Bored It goes beyond just weirdos. Firearms have proliferated amongst demographics that previously were completely uninterested in them. Minorities, gays, leftists of all types etc. 2nd amendment absolutists celebrate this because they have no theory of mind for these people.

@GA_partisan Sure there are a few more weirdos that got into the hobby now then it used to be, the difference is those you now are being subjected to them whereas before they were locked in a basement or a cabin somewhere.

The 2A exists for forming private militias which could defend communities against hostile savages and protect the nation as a whole because the founders believed in our capacity for self governance and competency. Now it’s mostly about collecting gunko pops. God help us all.

@poopman0055050 Can't entirely blame this on the boomers. Most boomers into guns gatekept them for a long time. It's my generation (millennials) that really tried to make gun ownership universal.

@GA_partisan @KaiserLoengramm Yellowstone boomers also spammed the “gay libertarian neighbors protecting their weed farm all gun owners are welcome in this country!” Horse shit and now that’s the prevailing mindset among these freaks

@Annoyed___Bored The social media aspect has definitely made firearms more accessible to more people. Which is not good considering most people are morons. They've become just another thing to flaunt for attention/clout etc.

@GA_partisan @KaiserLoengramm Its the proliferation of social media. It exaggerates the scope of the weird minorities of any hobby, activity or social group.

@NoMorePraheets I guess they probably mostly considered themselves libertarians, yes. I would consider them liberals with guns.

@GA_partisan @Americanism4you @KaiserLoengramm Weren't the boogaloos just "libertarians"? Libertarians have always been useless as hell.

@Americanism4you @KaiserLoengramm Yep, the "boogaloo boys" were embarrassing. Standing around with firearms in Hawaiian shirts, showing everyone how not racist they were while their cities burned around them. Worse than useless.

@GA_partisan @KaiserLoengramm It got really bad around Covid time and the Floyd riots

@Sandcommando201 I'd agree there's probably very little risk in reality but it's about perception. Which shows you just how little these people actually believe in anything. They aren't willing to take even miniscule risk or make themselves a tiny bit uncomfortable.

@GA_partisan There’s no risk (unless anything happens) as long as you’re not doing anything illegal, but it requires real effort, and most people can’t be bothered, it also requires leadership, money, discipline, and even harder to attain, a coherent worldview and plan of action

@Sandcommando201 Because that requires risk. People only takes risks for something they truly believe in, such as religion. The 2nd Amendment is not an ideology unto itself as much people would like to think it is. It's just a (poorly enforced) law.

@KaiserLoengramm What really gets me about a lot of the 2A guys, is that a lot of them go on and on about resisting the government and forming militias, but they never take it seriously, they never form a real organization, most can’t even form a gun club

@LittleBootsPro @isthisuneek You're talking about something else entirely. You could make the case Lee was better at commanding an Army than Johnston. Pretty much impossible to make that case when it comes to Hood.

@GA_partisan @isthisuneek Which were all hollow because Johnston kept on withdrawing instead of - you know - capitalizing on those victories. This is the entire problem Johnston had: he could win a battle, but then squander it by not acting upon it. Lee - by contrast - would seize upon it.

Jeff Davis replaced generals he personally didn't like, and kept generals he personally liked. Lincoln would happily put a man in charge that hated him, if he thought he would do a good job. That's why Beauregarde, one of the best Confederate generals, languished in a coastal department. Beauregarde even wrote extensive letters to Davis about how to stop Grant out West - strategies that would probably have worked, but Davis's men on the ground couldn't implement them.

@LittleBootsPro @isthisuneek You're contradicting yourself. The entire Atlanta campaign up to the Battle of Peachtree Creek ,when Hood took over, was a series of Confederate victories. Often very lopsided ones too (Battle of New Hope Church, Pickett's Mill etc).

@isthisuneek @GA_partisan @TacitusScriptor @SandyofCthulhu lol. No. No he didn’t. He sacrificed land in order to fight a pitched battle, which he then overengineered to the point of guaranteeing it would end in disaster.

@TacitusScriptor @SandyofCthulhu Johnston & Davis hated each other. Davis relieved Johnston at a crucial time just prior to the battle of Atlanta, replaced him with an impetuous Hood. Hood destroyed the Army of Tennessee only for Davis to be forced to give the shattered army back to Johnston. It was too late.

@SandyofCthulhu I know little about the Civil War, but I've read claims that Davis undermined the one Southern general (Johnston?) who understood the strategic challenges facing the South, and if given overall command might have favoured a defensive approach that might have been succesful?

@grayzoneintel To be fair, he said "you're never voting your way out of this" which is not the same as there is no political solution.

All solutions are political. They may not be electoral, but they are political. People talk about insurgency or revolution or insert-civil-war-conflict here. Even those are political because you're talking about a rightful claim on governance. All solutions must be political.

@thecavedaddy This is operating under the assumption the markets always go up. Historically that has not been the case. That's not even taking inflation into account.

How many of you can afford to invest 20% of your current paycheck right now? How many of you make $60,000+?

@HomericFuturist @dixiegoon21 Exactly. Firearms are just tools to achieve your goals. "Muh 2nd Amendment" is not an ideology unto itself but people try to make it one because they have nothing else to believe in. They've been completely deracinated & that's all they can cling to.

@dixiegoon21 You can’t organize around “guns” though You have to build organic communities

The answer is don’t be an individual Violence is a team sport

@col_a_buendia Still taking my kids to Charleston for the 4th. My direct ancestor was at the Battle of Sullivan's Island just shortly before independence was declared. I'm not missing the opportunity.

I hate them for taking the 250th from us. Nobody wants to celebrate, everyone just trying to survive. What should've been great collective joy is mourning by actual Americans and apathy from 100 million strangers. What a shit show we've made of this place since 1776.

@bumbadum14 Leftists eat, sleep, breathe their politics. They are zealots. Your average GOP voter cares more about their college football team than the politicians in charge of them. Politics is not all encompassing for conservatives & therefore they lose.

You won't do anything. You won't go after the judges, or the senators, or the congresspeople. You won't go after the NGOs, the pro-bono lawyers, the accreditation councils, and the professors. You won't go after their politicos, reporters, propagandists, and streamers. But they will, because they are serious and you are not. That's why you just post random shit on X to sell T-Shirts instead of doing the bare minimum like running for your local school board to stop libs from putting porn in front of 4th grade children. You won't do the bare minimum, so there's no shot you will do anything else.

@EdwardDoty_ Who gave blacks & other minorities citizenship/vote? Who forced desegregation down our throats? Every liberalizing force in this country the South has fought tooth & nail against. Yet, you still say it would have been worse had we won. Makes zero sense.

@GA_partisan Yes our problems today are not because of white Southerners, but they are also very much not the fault of Yankees. If the South won the racial situation would likely be even worse and America would be far weaker, it would be a worse world

This would have been the average American woman if the Confederates had won the war.

@EdwardDoty_ They aren't & there is no way for you to reasonably make that assertion considering DNA testing did not exist in the antebellum period. Southerners have always been the most race conscious ppl in the country. Wake up, we ARE becoming Brazil & it's not white Southerners fault

@GA_partisan If it was so rare why are blacks in America 1/4 European? The average European ancestry of blacks increased steadily through the slave period, it only STOPPED increasing once slavery ended, and if slavery had not ended it would’ve continued increasing until we became Brazil

@TrueAutistry117 @The_JBS What if we all just collectively stop acknowledging the authority of the "institutions"? That's what our (my) forefathers did.

@The_JBS Good men must seek power. The last stand in your mountain cabin is a fool's fantasy. We won't win this by guerilla warfare. We win by institutional capture and control.

There is no backup coming. If patriots don’t step up, who will? The future of this nation depends on those willing to act. Get involved, together we will win.

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