It was. But there’s a social contract being violated, here.
Also, the guys in the photo above? their rights to own guns were tramped out by that notorious liberal pinko commie Ronald Reagan, because as it turns out, they aren’t for the freedom to bear arms, just the freedom for people they like and feel are on their side to bear arms.
If the Panthers started up again, you can bet all the second-amendment types would be begging for gun control in five minutes.
I’m not talking about that, and ffs loosened gun regulation was one of the biggest agendas of the Trump campaign… not so much for the Democrats who took a 180 approach
uhm you do understand that’s literally what the meme is talking about right?
leftists generally don’t vote for dems - serious leftists aren’t anti-gun neocons - most are marxists-leninists, anarchists, maoists, anti-imperialists, etc - which very much recognize the need for individuals being able to defend themselves and their communities (look at the Black Panthers for an example)
the fact that you think “left=gun control” only shows the state of political discourse and the impenetrable wool that’s been pulled in front of your eyes.
note: this obvs doesn’t mean that leftists would have voted for trump because of his promises of laxed gun control (since that would be single-issue voting and you’d have to gloss over him being a racist, bigoted, capitalistic skid mark) but maybe if gun control was the sole reason you would vote for him but had a real leftist party that was pro-gun you might have gone for them instead (unless you agree with his hateful rhetoric ofc)
And here I thought the left wanted more gun control, since it seems to be so important to them
You are mistaken about who wants gun control.
The left should have taken that tune before Trump
Marx said that in 1850 lol
It was. But there’s a social contract being violated, here.
Also, the guys in the photo above? their rights to own guns were tramped out by that notorious liberal pinko commie Ronald Reagan, because as it turns out, they aren’t for the freedom to bear arms, just the freedom for people they like and feel are on their side to bear arms.
If the Panthers started up again, you can bet all the second-amendment types would be begging for gun control in five minutes.
LOL. many of us practice and own guns, we just don’t make it our entire personality.
I’m not talking about that, and ffs loosened gun regulation was one of the biggest agendas of the Trump campaign… not so much for the Democrats who took a 180 approach
uhm you do understand that’s literally what the meme is talking about right?
leftists generally don’t vote for dems - serious leftists aren’t anti-gun neocons - most are marxists-leninists, anarchists, maoists, anti-imperialists, etc - which very much recognize the need for individuals being able to defend themselves and their communities (look at the Black Panthers for an example)
the fact that you think “left=gun control” only shows the state of political discourse and the impenetrable wool that’s been pulled in front of your eyes.
note: this obvs doesn’t mean that leftists would have voted for trump because of his promises of laxed gun control (since that would be single-issue voting and you’d have to gloss over him being a racist, bigoted, capitalistic skid mark) but maybe if gun control was the sole reason you would vote for him but had a real leftist party that was pro-gun you might have gone for them instead (unless you agree with his hateful rhetoric ofc)
That’s because your media is lying to you about who the left is.
Not really, I mostly base my views on my experience on lemmy