@2Aupdates Extreme levels of institutional trust as well as attempting to misrepresent moral cowardice as principle. They don't want to have to be responsible for their own safety and so they want to be protected by institutions.
@MentisWave And then when people point out the human rights abuses and the system's flaws and how they only got that way by ABANDONING Marxist policies it becomes "not real socialism" and "state capitalism."
@p_romington@MorosKostas@gunpolicy It's a magical ability called "lying." They don't actually believe the nonsense coming out of their mouths, it's just politically useful for them to say it. You can tell by how they don't even TRY to defend their nonsensical points when you show them to be wrong.
@danielle819@Skwerilleee So, just like standing up against hate speech laws that ban things even I find offensive to stop those laws being expanded further into less divisive topics, we have to keep the fight further away from our core, because they're pretty honest their real goal is a total gun ban.
@danielle819@Skwerilleee The biggest problem with that is the incrementalist strategy they use. It might be about banning what they sell to you as "military grade" weapons RIGHT NOW, but once they ban those, they'll start coming for "hunting-grade" weapons next. Because the goal is control, not safety.
@BreadIsRye On one hand, termites really aren't dangerous to people so you aren't going to get sick. On the other, swarming like that means that it's an established colony rather than something new. It's serious, but an exterminator should be able to handle it.
@MorosKostas That would imply they're actually arguing honestly, instead of being ideologues who are looking for excuses to rationalize their push for gun control. They say this stuff not because they BELIEVE it, but because it's advantageous to say it.
@the_fem_tm@JohnnyRicoooo No, actually. The Lavant was, while hot, a fairly good region for agriculture at the time. It was the Egyptian Mamluk Sultunate in the latter half of the 13th century that systematically destroyed the region's infrastructure and agricultural capacity to discourage another Crusade
@whatifalthist Thus there is no point in fostering exceptional talents instead of just trying to raise the average up in their framework. Because the former goes against their "virtue" of equity, they think they can train anyone who expresses interest in leadership to be a great leader.
@whatifalthist It's based on the Marxist rejection of the very idea of Great Men. They believe, or at least say they believe, that individual people don't direct societal development and that it's a sum culmination of all the actions of society collectively.[...]
@MorosKostas "Why aren't they being rounded up?"
Because they'll open fire on any law enforcement that tries to arrest them and because the cops don't want to risk being shot they won't actually enforce the law against them.
@TheAKGuy@BaddieStreams It genuinely looks like the P320 went P320 and fired off on its own because it was being manhandled. I'm not even sure the agent's finger was on the trigger.