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This may have been said as a joke, but it's true, and also about as far as any Republican voter cares. They are not at all against political violence, as that is the explicit purpose of modern Second Amendment culture. Personal grievance murders like school and workplace shootings are just collateral that the ghouls write off.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the NRA became a highly political organization not long after desegregation and civil rights became settled, and you had to start treating black people like people in polite company.

From a global perspective, the average middle class or even working class American who drives everywhere in an SUV, eats huge portions of meat products at wasteful restaurants, and generally consumes ten times as much as the average person is part of the rich. And yes, we deserve it.

Or they just keep quiet and lie and do whatever they want. Hard to prove guilt in the sticks if there isn't a game warden nearby.

Here's an anecdote from an American outdoors industry leader where he admits he doesn't give a shit about conservation laws and admits to seeking out and killing at least one bear, against the advice of fish and wildlife, because he deemed it to be dangerous. https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_list&c=108

For those of us at home, Project 2025 describes invoking the Insurrection Act to deputize the National Guard of red states and using them to enforce immigration law in blue states.

Soldiers, kicking in doors looking for illegal immigrants, in a dire conflict of Federal vs State authority that hasnt been seen since desegregation. I wish Harris brought this up.

In typical American legal parlance a "machine gun" is any firearm that fires more than one round per trigger pull, so it's more or less correct.

I would say it is a problem when criminals have a way to magdump a police cruiser in literally under a second with a concealable weapon.

A prior lawsuit filed over the “Trump Train” alleged the San Marcos Police Department violated the Ku Klux Klan Act by failing to send a police report after multiple 911 calls were made and a bus rider said his life was threatened. It accused officers of privately laughing and joking about the emergency calls. San Marcos settled the lawsuit in 2023 for $175,000 and a requirement that law enforcement get training on responding to political violence.

In case you were still wondering what side the police are on, and whether you could count on their help if these people came after you.

"Made for NATO Army"

No military issue weapon is marked like this. Some idiot with a laser engraver had a little side project, possibly to inflate the value of the gun.

I imagine a lot of the Western arms flowing around that part of the globe right now come from Afghanistan and the US's chaotic retreat.

Starting your own business should not be the best or only vehicle to prosperity. You should be able to make a comfortable living working a normal job that doesn't break you.

Failure rate of small business is high, and you can't blame all of that on lack of startup capital. Bad concept, bad execution, bad location, etc. could all play into it. The taxpayer should not be obliged to keep a "quirky" store running if it doesn't bring in customers. Throwing good money after bad isn't going to bring prosperity to anyone in the end.

Not to mention that they compete with each other, not just the megacorps. I'm pretty sure there are half a dozen hair salons on our main street alone, and most of them sit empty at any given time, endlessly changing hands. Incentivizing startups will only make competition more fierce, so a few more winners but much more losers.

We don't need more restaurants giving the community more below minimum wage jobs that can't be filled. We need that money helping everyone, with rent or groceries or something, so that they can actually have money to spend at the small businesses that exist.

My [likely ignorant] take is that we need better incentives for workers, renters, and first-time homeowners, not MBA ~~shysters~~ "entrepreneurs" creating "new businesses" dropshipping imported garbage and other ventures that add little value to society.

Executive dysfunction go brrr