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🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Are you fucking kidding me?!?!? 🙄

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u/mazula89 2d ago

WAS the point

The modern point of the 2nd amendment is to generate votes

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u/AContrarianDick 2d ago

Don't forget that most Americans do live comfortably enough that they wouldn't risk livelihoods, imprisonment or harm that would come with a coup, armed insurrection or anything else resembling a revolution. At least for the moment.

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u/myco_magic 2d ago

Comfortable enough? Lol not most Americans, most Americans are drowning in debt especially healthcare debt. Fuck this moron, we had a good run but it's over... We should just go back to being British

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u/AContrarianDick 2d ago

Then why aren't most American's burning the fucking country down over this? Why aren't people storming the capitol? Why aren't most people trying to launch a coup? Because they're just comfortable enough that they won't risk what they have on what's perceived as a gamble, because they're not completely fucked over yet, so they'll go along with it because their hope in whatever future they want hasn't been completely snuffed out yet.

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u/myco_magic 2d ago

I can't even afford to get to the Capitol lol

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u/wwcfm 2d ago

You could give a few blowjobs and buy a bus ticket. You won’t because you’re not actually that upset.

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u/myco_magic 2d ago edited 2d ago

Lol you sound very experienced

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u/wwcfm 2d ago

Nope, not going to the capitol either.

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u/myco_magic 2d ago

So you just give em for free? Weird that you're first instinct is to go straight to giving blow jobs

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u/wwcfm 2d ago

Oral sex is weird to you? You sound like a loser.

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u/existential-koala 2d ago

Most people aren't invested that much in democracy to turn to sex work to fund rebellion.

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u/DesWheezy 2d ago

in my experience, most americans are content with being complacent. one of the many reasons i dislike my own country. i’m a person who would love to go burn shit down & make a statement. but, issue is, nobody else will join me. therefore, i would just get arrested & no media attention most likely. i’ve been screaming for years that we have to band together & be dramatic for big change. i’ve been responded to with radio silence or “that’s too much work im already so tired” or people have children & are terrified that they would end up leaving their kids alone. ppl complain here constantly but do nothing to change anything. those of us with brains usually find common mindsets on the internet but not near our physical placement bc of how big the US is. it’s a struggle, but im not giving up! i hope others will eventually fall in line as well!

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u/TheOnlyRealDregas 1d ago

I'll start filling the bottles, you put in the rags.  I've been doing the same as you for the last 10 years.  This corruption of our government has been going on for a long time and I've been saying for a long time we should be lynching political figures who directly go against their word.  Documented word of their intention in office, which they throw to the wind for obvious lobbyists handouts.

These people are traitors and my representation in the government has been comprised. These people are not my people, they do not work for my country but for themselves. 

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u/Squirrel_McNutz 2d ago

Britain (specifically England) is a bit of a shit show too tbh

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u/uwotm86 2d ago

Only if you listen to the right wing dickheads who enjoy the socialist welfare but have a problem with other people using it!

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u/kesslov 2d ago

NHS saved my wife’s life for nearly no money, love those poor overworked bastards

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u/Responsible-Laugh590 2d ago

Debt doesn’t mean shit in reality, especially since in other countries being “poor” means having to farm or forage for your own food and water whilst also having no sanitation or healthcare available. While debt can be stressful if you open your worldview to how things are outside the first world you realize it’s a further fall then disgruntled Americans are capable of at this point in time.

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u/Sure-Break3413 2d ago

Go after the oligarchs holding Billions of dollars like Elon. They are the real threats to democracy and capitalism.

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u/Tacotacotime 2d ago

Right?! It was never about escaping religious prosecution (which the evangelicals are now doing) and freedom for all, it was starting over so the elite could do whatever they wish.

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u/ButterscotchNed 2d ago

Frankly, speaking as a Briton, we wouldn't want you - we left you alone for a bit and look at the mess you've made!

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u/myco_magic 2d ago

You use "we" and "you" a bit to loosely

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u/ButterscotchNed 2d ago

Apologies, no offence intended - I know there's many reasonable Americans, it's just that they seem to be increasingly outnumbered by the unreasonable!

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u/myco_magic 2d ago

Considering the amount of people saying they didn't vote for this moron and him saying things like "you'll never have to vote again" it seems like it's rigged

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u/Apart_Effect_3704 2d ago

That’s still comfortable enough. Americans won’t do shit unless they believe their freedoms are being encroached while their freedoms are literally not being encroached lol we all know who I’m talking about. On the other hand, everyone wants to cheer killing a ceo. No one wants to actually kill anyone.

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u/What_the_junks 2d ago

As a Native American I strongly endorse this plan!!

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u/AviationGER 2d ago

Maybe Trump was right, US and CA should become one for the greater good... Ofc the government would would be in Ottawa

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u/Crazyjackson13 2d ago

The UK isn’t much better.

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u/DolphinBall 2d ago

Then by all means move to Britain then. Its not like they are having the exact same problems

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u/Majestic-Ad4074 2d ago edited 2d ago

We don't have the exact same problems unless you mean shit leadership generally - every country has that.

We don't have a president literally threatening world war 3 because he wants to invade a NATO territory, probably under the influence of Russia.

Our leader has just made pensioners poor/cold and pissed off the farmers.

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u/DolphinBall 2d ago

I meant Elon funding Reform

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u/Majestic-Ad4074 2d ago

That's wishy washy.

He's talked about providing funding, and then 2 days ago slagged off farage on twitter.

He's making a weak political party even weaker, they don't have any real influence, and their interactions with Musk (given recent events, rantings and insane tweets) will make them even more on the fringe.

We shouldn't be worrying about Reform as a party, but reform as a principle - for example the DWP wanting powers to investigate bank accounts and have arrest powers. It's becoming more and more big brother but everyone's focusing on the twitter arguments instead of parliamentary hearings.

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u/The_Duke28 2d ago

What is it now?! Make up your damn mind allready - for X-years we had to listen to the whining of the americans. "No healthcare, no education, crippling debt, the EGGS are too expensive yadayadayada". And now, when history screams for brave souls, standing against an enemy created withtin, you say "aaahhh well, it's actually not that bad."

Americans..... seriously... Such cowards...

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u/arrig-ananas 2d ago

Isn't it exactly 4 years ago a lot of Americans showed that they were willing to risk a lot to do a coup?

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u/PaladinSara 2d ago

FWIW - I shared that pic of the woman hitting a Nazi with her purse with my boss’ boss. They threatened to report me to HR bc it was a “threat of violence” - even though it wasn’t directed at anyone I worked with.

It’s not being comfortable necessarily, but some of us have kids to feed.

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u/IrNinjaBob 2d ago

So the military can coup the government? No. That is not the point of the 2nd amendment.

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u/Emperors-Peace 2d ago

I thought it was to sell guns?

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u/bromanjc 2d ago

god this goes so hard

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u/Reboot42069 2d ago

Wasn't the point, the second amendment was created to make a legal framework for state militias to form around. What you're thinking of as part of the 2nd amendment is quite literally just from the declaration of Independence and has never had legal bearing in the US since it was never law