TikTok trend where gun owners LARP that someone broke into their house and they finally get to kill a person like they’ve always wanted pic.twitter.com/kWNXczAkhh— Rafi (@rafi_dot_net) June 25, 2021
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Americans fetishize gun culture and violence because that is how they maintain their status as the world superpower. Suburban middle class desperately need imperialism, it got them their white collar job where they spend 8 hours sending a couple emails and shopping for a boat made from materials sourced all around the world. It's only when conditions decrease that the forces of imperialism must be turned inwards, and they absolutley hate it. If it means they must churn up some of their own to continue the march onward they will comply, otherwise it could be them who is left undertow. To paraphrase, it's less about feeling safe; it's about feeling in control.
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I'll try to make an edit after work to elaborate but here goes:
Americans fetishize gun culture and violence because that is how they maintain their status as the world superpower. Suburban middle class desperately need imperialism, it got them their white collar job where they spend 8 hours sending a couple emails and shopping for a boat made from materials sourced all around the world. It's only when conditions decrease that the forces of imperialism must be turned inwards, and they absolutley hate it. If it means they must churn up some of their own to continue the march onward they will comply, otherwise it could be them who is left undertow. To paraphrase, it's less about feeling safe; it's about feeling in control.