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Careful, you're falling for American propaganda yourself.
The safest thing you can do by far is to leave, but obviously that's not an option for everybody.
If you do arm yourself and you take that gun with you everywhere you go, you're more likely to just give a far-right scumbag an excuse to kill you than you are to defend yourself.
Extremely permissive gun laws benefit assholes, criminals and extremists far more than they benefit genuinely good people.
So have all the armed minorities in America fixed the problem?
Has racism been solved or does the state still execute people in the street and claim "He might have had a gun"?
Are authoritarians scared to enter politics because of all the overweight, heavily armed people waddling around sharing fantasies about killing for "freedom"?
Are domestic terrorists hunting gay people gunned down in a hail of Good Guy Bullets before they can threaten, trumatise, maim and kill anybody?
Or do cashiers and children and beaten wives just get shot in the face because their lives weren't deem as important as profiting off people who can't secure their guns or control their emorions.
Morality has nothing to do with it, it simply doesn't work.
Armed minorities are why we have any gun control, the second the black Panthers started walking around we suddenly started caring about gun control.
A talking point pushed by right-wing, pro-gun reactionaries who just want to manipulate people into feeling racist.
The open carry laws they used while policing the police stated that it was legal to carry a loaded rifle or shotgun as long as it was publicly displayed and not pointed at anyone.
The pro-gun community pushes gun laws that are far more permissive and far more likely to result in an overweight Fox News viewer losing control of his emotions and executing a cashier.
Especially if that cashier is black.
yep while we havnt gotten quite as far as the extreme right in the US, the nutbags here in aus love to focus on similar oddly specific things, like trans people and sex education which is going through a bit of a renaissance of ignorant idiots trying to make it an issue.
its even funnier because we don't have a large religious base to even justify it and most of the lunatics pushing it would probably identify as atheist or agnostic
Tankish, as in the medieval N African Kingdom of Tankish?
It was a joke because that’s the only definition I could find for “Tankish,” but I didn’t think that was what you actually meant. Never heard of it at all nor could I find any reference to it describing friendliness with the 2nd world. Any idea of the etymology and/or where you picked up the term?
It comes from tankie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
This is just speculation because it hasn't been explained definitively to me, but my assumption is that it refers to the Tiananmen square video where it was one dude vs a column of tanks and tankies are people supporting the column of tanks side of that conflict.
And from there it evolved to mean anyone supporting the Chinese or Russian authoritarian regimes. It might apply more broadly to anyone supporting a regime that uses brutal dissent breaking tactics, though in the west it might apply to situations specifically involving that brutality (France, Britain, and USA have all recently used some brutal tactics, though none of them have deployed tanks to settle a protest/riot that I'm aware of).
And just to repeat, that's my current best guess as to the specific meaning of the term, I could be entirely wrong.
Tankie is a term British communists used against other British communists who didn't oppose the USSR invading Hungary in 1956. These days its pretty much any Marxist-Leninist.