Not to put too fine a point on it, but it reeks of colonialism. God is with us is a bone-chilling sentiment

Some do. There's a concept in some kinds of Pentecostal mysticism called Gifts of the Spirit iirc, including the Gift of Discernment, which means being able to intuit (technically god's telling you and it feels like intuition) whether a statement is true or false

I grew up in a non-denominational (Pentecostal but worried that people will think they're poor if they say so) church that didn't use any of the Gifts lingo, but still taught that you receive that same set of supernatural abilities

Blasphemy sorta maxes out as soon White Jesus makes an appearance

I'll join the auxiliary labor corps, and then get kicked out for being too sore and creaky all the time

It's constantly astounding how the US can make the most out of every opportunity to become worse. Elementary school gets shot up? Must be a hoax to take guns away from white christian men

Ah yes, I forgot that all things exist in a vacuum and not in dialectical relation to each other

Thank you, I will join your movement and :vote: with my wallet

Also, it's not some fucking gordian knot. We know how to untie it, it's just that it involves replacing our entire government

In the meantime, more criminalization in the US is just more criminalization

yeah, you can't name another because there isn't one

It's a weird, really bad situation. The distribution of guns in the US is strange, with gun-hobbyists holding a lot of them, particularly assault weapons. We have "licensing" programs for "illegal" weapons that allow you to own and use them if you're rich, meanwhile we sentence weed dealers to mandatory minimums for just possessing an otherwise legal handgun when they fall victim to a sting operation

The US is ontologically evil is what I'm saying

name another country in the same bind as the US is on guns

You just said we're not in a unique bind on it, and then described the bind

Most urban gun ownership is concealed handguns and not useful for revolutionary organizing.

Extremely useful for an excuse to lock more poor people up, though. Their guns are for survival, not revolution, but that doesn't matter when the subject at hand is just, "Should we increase how much we imprison the people we already imprison a lot"

We, the US, could have half of our guns disappear and still be roughly tied for the most guns per capita

Guns are central to US identity from its very inception, and selective gun control laws have been used the whole time to arm the colonizers and disarm the colonized. It's silly to act like the US isn't in a unique bind on guns

Snappy, but if you were to organize the biggest and most grassrootsiest gun control campaign in US history, you would still stand no chance of disarming boat dealers and their murderous failsons

Marx never let autopilot crash his Tesla

I think a lot of them just aren't in the US, honestly. Even a lot of left-sympathetic people in the US don't really grasp how the US has always used its gun control laws to enforce white supremacism, but I figure it's especially uncommon knowledge elsewhere

Look at all of them, partying down on the deck. They wish they could be the Owner-Captain, up here, in a pod with its own toilet. Losers.

It's easier if you just use a comprehensible US unit. 135-acre feet could just as easily be listed as 437.5 furlong pints, but the lamestream media wants to make the US look silly

Oh for sure, but she cited both of them in her pearl-clutching. None of that violence has come from Labour, and half of it was from a Christofascist Tory against a Labour MP