shieldfoss:

shkreli-for-president:

responsible-reanimation:

baggvinshield:

my fellow US citizens please please, we’ve got to do something about the gun violence in our country. there’s no reason someone should be able to just go buy an assault rifle or an automatic firearm of any kind. these weapons are designed to kill people, why are they sold in stores as if they have any other purpose? we have big elections coming up in November and we have to put pressure on our politicians to do something about our gun laws, to fight back against the NRA and stand up for the victims of all these senseless killings. we have to stop this happening, way too many innocent people have died because our laws favor big gun manufacturers instead of the safety of our citizens.

I’m all for this, but banning assault rifles doesn’t do much for all the shooting victims who don’t make front-page news.

Trying to ban handguns is political suicide, but maybe we could try an anti-gun campaign that specifically works with America’s cultural mythology around guns?

“John Wayne is dead, he is not coming back, you are not John Wayne and never will be, put down the damn gun.”

Ah yes, the Guns, the guns that sprout limbs and walk into gay clubs and start shooting people entirely on their own,

And while we’re at it, “there’s no reason someone should be able to just go buy an assault rifle or an automatic firearm of any kind” congratulations, that is also illegal in all US states. Literally zero automatic weapons are available in American gun stores unless you’re buying for police/military use.

Every time I see a progressive misusing gun terminology it makes me want to head to a range just to bond with people who know their shit, and I’m supposedly way to the left of all those progressives. I mean, “assault weapon” is basically the “sex change operation” of gun politics and if one is pro-accurate-terminology anti-misleading-bullshit one should be consistent with that.

(also, mass shootings are anomalies and should never ever be used as the basis of laws; if you want to legislate (recommendation: maybe count to ten and reconsider whenever you get the urge; legislating is a bad habit people should try to drop), at least do it based on the actual number of annual gun homicides and suicides instead of a single goddamn individual fucking event kthxbye)

(also, mass shootings still below slippery bathtubs as a public health hazard; maybe consider doing something about them bathtubs first if you really feel the need to save lives instead of just signaling progressive virtue)

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2 weeks ago · tagged #guns cw #death cw #violence cw #is this what yelling at the 'blue tribe' feels like? · 760 notes · source: baggvinshield · .permalink

http://www.governmentisgood.com/

Large portions of our economy would grind to a halt [sic] if the government did not grant patents and copyrights. Without this massive intervention into the free market, the drug, music, publishing, and software industries could not exist. [sic] Bill Gates likes to think of himself as a self-made man, but he would not be one of the richest men in the world if the government did not make it illegal for anyone but Microsoft to copy and sell Windows. [implication: this is somehow supposed to be a “good” thing]

Is this website a parody?

We can see this in their findings summarized in Table 1. Both public and private service providers received consistently high scores from people who had recently used their services. On a scale of 0-100, the public agencies averaged a score of 73.5 for customer satisfaction, while the private businesses averaged 73.9 – a negligible difference. Clearly, people’s actual experiences and evaluations of public agencies runs directly contrary [sic] to the negative stereotype that government organizations consistently provide inferior service to that available in the private sector.

Service                   Ratings by Recent Customers
U.S. Postal Service       76.1
Public health clinics     74.4
(...)
Private mail carriers     84.5
Private doctors' offices  80.6

Please tell me it’s a parody

Government also helps you own your house in more than the legal sense. On a more practical level, the federal government actually gives you money every year to help pay for your house. It’s called a mortgage interest tax deduction and it is one of the larger benefit programs run by the federal government – amounting to over $60 billion dollars a year. You can also deduct any real estate taxes you pay. These largely overlooked subsidy programs have enabled millions of people to buy their first home or to move up to a larger home than they could afford otherwise. [but when the private sector does it, it’s called irresponsible]

Unless telling me it’s a parody would render my beliefs less accurate

The Forgotten Achievements [sic] of Government

The Military. [sic]

(…)

How could [anti-poverty programs] possibly be considered a success [sic] when the poverty rate is essentially the same as it was thirty years ago? The answer is that most of the policies aimed at the poor in the U.S. were never intended to get them out of poverty.

Please universe be such that telling me it’s a parody would make my beliefs more aligned with reality

One business sector that benefits tremendously from government R&D is the drug industry. Our government conducts fully half of the research and development of new drugs – the economic benefits of which are then largely captured by pharmaceutical companies. [once again, this is supposed to be a “good” thing]

My brain ready and willing to be convinced that it is actually a LibCom false flag operation

1 month ago · tagged #is this what yelling at the 'blue tribe' feels like? #facepalm oil-based biofuels #i'm only angry at the left because i care about the poor #the ''''''left'''''' #to be more accurate #in this case · 15 notes · .permalink