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Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · Mar 29

All these billionaire dummies trying to take over governments and use squid glands to live forever, and meanwhile Mariska Hargitay is going to be the main religious figure in 2625 because she executive produced thirty seasons of her being the Living Messiah.

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Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 2h

All right, great luck with that, never get caught slipping, never make a bad call under pressure, never rest in your vigilance against the likely-phantom enemy you need to justify yourself. Much better than giving an inch by taking the really good toddler obliterators off the store shelves.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 2h

It’s so wild that nobody’s allowed to compile stats on the subject when said stats would clearly demonstrate that all gun owners are sane and responsible and never fuck up.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 3h

Incredibly Republican thought process. “Sure this arbitrary social ill has destroyed and will destroy countless lives but because I’m Responsible and Smart it will actually protect me against my many enemies”

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 3h

Also places with gun laws (many of them the same places) but those are apparently incompatible with the American Project in a way godless communism Is not

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 3h

The lunch mobs also have guns, you realize.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 3h

And if the protection is far more likely to be a danger itself?

If the people who think other people are human get into a murder-off with the people who don’t, we’re not going to win that one no matter what.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 3h

No argument to any of that, but the proliferation of guns makes every downstream effect of that worse and justifies every repressive crackdown.

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Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 3h

You are not going to use your gun to defend your family against the orcs, whether your politics skins them as gangbanging hiphop thugs or Nazi kkkops. You’re just going to kill yourself or someone you love, and make bad people richer.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 3h

But they all have the capacity to easily end a life any time they feel angry or sad, or forget to lock the gun safe.

British cops, never mind civilians, don’t even carry guns and are somehow able to prevent murders. This is what I’m taking about with the “everyone is a threat” delusion.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 3h

Gun control doesn’t work because failed states exist!

Every industrialized country is undergoing the same capitalistic stresses as the US. None of them have anything like as many murders.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

So given there’s going to be massive resistance by the moneyed classes to any attempt at change, perhaps we should go with the one that has some billionaires on side and solves some problems, rather than insisting on utopia.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

“My toys are more important than children’s lives” is incompatible with a functional community

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

el Chapo furiously protesting that he made a lot of money so it’s fine

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

If they’re not claiming he joined because he was too old to go trick-or-treating they’re leaving money on the table.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

Two sources, what am I Uptown Sinclair?

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

Ouija board, doy

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

That guy’s just full of great ideas

Aaron Sorkin: How I Would Script This Moment for Biden and the
Democrats
July 21, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET But there's something the Democrats can do that would not just put a lump in people's throats with its appeal to stop-Donald-Trump-at- all-costs unity, but with its originality and sense of sacrifice. So here's my pitch to the writers' room: The Democratic Party should pick a
Republican. At their convention next month, the Democrats
should nominate Mitt Romney

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Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

250 years of sucking their own dicks about resisting tyranny and watering liberty with blood and there’s no solution to guys who failed the physical before they lowered standards

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 4h

I didn’t know that was a possibility and now I have yet another data point for “God is real and it hates us”

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out when your politics are premised on shunning the outsider and adherence to tradition, the traditional outsiders become your boogeymen

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 5h

AI garbage destroys search engines > Everything stops getting SEO titles

A boy can dream

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 5h

Gun control would also require significant government intervention and thus taxes, which is why the response from billionaires I’ve seen, and certainly from the multimillionaire dealership owners and dentistry franchisers that make up the conservative base, favour lip service to mental health.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 5h

Again, we can in fact do both, and unfettered gun culture both exemplifies and exacerbates the descent of society into a fully atomized war of all against all. If every stranger is a potential threat, sharing resources is a sucker move.

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 8h

And was a weird horrifying one-off. Turned regular as clockwork as soon as any chump with a chip could get an AR

Madness Table @rollforphobia.bsky.social · 9h

It’s weird that despite there being infinite firearms already in circulation a multibillion dollar industry keeps selling them and lobbying to prevent their regulation.