• VHS [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    who do they think the two sides are, if not the liberal establishment and the far-right trumpers?

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      4 years ago

      presumably as "liberal gun owners" they mistrust cops and state power more than your standard liberal? my guess is these people are leftists without any class consciousness.

      • VHS [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        yeah, it does look better than i expected and there are some socialists on there. when i had last seen that sub a year or two ago they were way bigger libs

        • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          We got serious about banning outright right wingers, which naturally steered the subreddit back to about where it ought to be.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      They believe we have some kind of Wiemar Germany situation where communist street gangs are rumbling with a Trump version of the Freikorps and eventually it's going to escalate into full scale warfare. Elements of the federal government will gravitate towards one side or the other and supply them with troops and tanks or whatever I guess. It's part of the liberal worm brained belief that the US government has a diverse set of ideological stances within it and can be guided in that manner, rather than the state simply being the violent bureaucratic apparatus of capital.