This is the image that will define this war - 165 young Iranian girls, killed while at school, who are mere ‘collateral damage’ to an out of control US-Israeli war machine.
If the Second Amendment does not apply to this exact kind of moment, what do people think it is for?
A citizen can lawfully carry, see masked federal agents beating someone in public, move toward the scene to help, and then get erased with a hail of bullets because “he had a gun.”
That excuse is an insult in a country where possession is legal by design, where the whole point is that the public never becomes a disarmed audience watching state power operate with impunity.
I’m not interested in arguing frame-by-frame footage. I’m interested in the principle that a free people cannot accept a standard where lawful carry becomes a death sentence the second authority feels threatened.
If that is the standard, then the 2nd Amendment has been reduced to a vibe. The founders did not write it so Republicans could do militia cosplay on weekends.
I think it’s really interesting that liberals do not want to socially associate with conservatives but conservatives desperately want social acceptance to be separate from political ideology.
I think we’re misinterpreting “don’t look for celebrities to form your political opinion but inform yourself instead” for “i don’t have to be politically educated as a popstar”
this isn’t some devious act. she’s literally saying that as someone whose job it is to be pretty & keep her pretty mouth shut unless it’s what’s been written, she has a desire to do more meaningful work & contribute. nothing she said is manipulative or malicious. shut the fuck up
virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions: “to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones”
A source close to Luigi Mangione told the Daily Mail he got “really choked up” when he first saw the support he is receiving and it gives him “reassurance he will be okay.” It was also revealed that Luigi is sharing his commissary money with his fellow inmates.
I saw something last might about this. How MAGAs are no longer gloating about "liberal tears" because liberals aren't crying.
The first time was a shock.
The second time everyone knew exactly what they were doing.
So liberals see this, rightly, as an assault on American values and the futures of their children and grandchildren.
They're not crying, they're cutting fascists out of their lives because now they've got to deal with the world the trolls made.
And so the trolls are all stuck with one another now, but the problem is their primary motivation was gloating over the Liberal Tears. So they're out of steam. And the MAGAs actually fucking hate *each other* too, so I'm the absence of snowflake tears they're quickly going to turn on one another.
When you elect fascism in my country you have told me who you are. You are full of hatred for the most vulnerable people in our society. You don't care about the environment or public health or education or human rights or the rule of law.
Fine, but we don't owe you a second more of our lives so you can feel better reveling in our sadness. We've gotta deal with the shitshow you've brought to our shores, so suck it up, buttercups.