If you want to enact change we need them on our side.
I'm on the 'side' that thinks having dangerous weapons around is stupid. Anyone on another side is, by default, stupid, by my logic.
Samvega
joined 1 year ago
...trying to protect their family...
Guns make you feel safer. The evidence suggests that guns actually increases risks to you and your family.
I think I'm safer from violence over here in a country with fewer guns. The evidence seems to back up my thoughts, also.
- Scapegoat an outgroup as unhealthy to society.
- Tell a group they are part of the stronger majority and are morally superior
- Infrahumanise the outgroup to deepen the moral divide ("cat litter boxes in schools! Forced gender reassignments!")
- Repeat the lies until they are believed simply through repetition
- Say that talking about evidence is dirty liberal homosexual awfulness because REAL PEOPLE LISTEN TO THEIR HEARTS GODDAMMIT (faith-based group identity)
- Pretend to be surprised when the outgroup you've said are pondscum unfit to be in society get targeted with gun violence in a country where guns are very available, and send thoughts and prayers
- When someone calls this stochastic terrorism, refuse to acknowledge that you understand what that term means
- Consolidate status and power as a figurehead of a hate movement
it's shocking to see an adolescent think in this hateful way.
No, it's not shocking that stochastic terrorism has the result of murderous intent. This situation is being worked towards, each and every day, just because some people feel they benefit from scapegoating an outgroup.
Do you know what politicians learn after a huge fake asset bubble destroys the economy and makes many destitute?
To do it again, but bigger!!!
"Killing people is profit, son. Our shareholders demand it!"
"I heard a thing that justifies my bigotry, therefore it must be true, because if it isn't true I'm not a good person."
The birth rate is low because right-wing politics make people not want to have children. But I can see how people invested in right-wing politics would be motivated to ignore that.
The birth rate is low because right-wing politics make people not want to have children.
Thought process might well have been: "This is an uppity black man, we'd better show these types a lesson."
"A black person annoyed them. Of course a cop can't put up with that!"
It's the Scunthorpe Problem.