I agree but I don’t want to encourage people preemptively stressing out too much to the point that they either make bad decisions or completely burn out. We can’t lose it every time something bad happens that we have no control over.

It’s really important that we take care of ourselves right now and choose our emotional battles. This situation is incredibly heartbreaking and enraging but we have to keep things in perspective and keep a level head in this crucial time.

The powers that be are hoping we will burn out and/or make poor decisions based on fear. They are hoping that people with no gun experience will rashly buy one and make mistakes with it. They’re hoping we stress out to the point we can’t function. We have to be careful.

Population is not even the issue here. We are capable of sustaining the amount of people we have we just refuse to do so efficiently because it benefits rich people.

Fuck Trump. Fuck Modi. (And that’s coming from a Hindu. He can fuck right off)

While I don’t disagree let’s not forget that hate crimes are unfortunately not unheard of regardless as to who is running the country.

In most situations being armed makes you more vulnerable.

Also do not get one if you have ever thought of harming yourself.

Please look into other ways to arm/protect yourself if possible.

So I have a stupid and ignorant question to ask:

I’ve seen arguments online stating that We The People cannot band together to sue Elon for accessing our personal information because he has been given “permission” by the president so to speak.

But

Can we sue him for being an illegal immigrant who is accessing our personal information?

Just hypothetical mind you.

There probably are a lot of livid conservatives but we’re not going to hear about it. They rig the elections and they rig the media coverage.

It’s what Trump would do.

He’s just a permanent petulant child.

It’s mutually beneficial gardening.

This. We need to all agree to not comply.

The most blame goes to billionaires and allowing corporations to be people.

Most people that voted for this have been brainwashed heavily for many years by the super wealthy to think they want this.

It’s not an excuse but think about it: if our country had provided better over all education and actually kept the super wealthy and our media in check then this wouldn’t be happening.

We should have been fighting really hard to reinstate things like fairness doctrine and to have more news outlets that didn’t rely on ad revenue this whole time.

The problem with progress in the US is we are never able to focus on the most crucial issues first. There’s so many people and views etc. and everyone has different priorities. Rich people don’t have this problem because they all have the same driving goal: money.

So, there’s blame to go around but citizens pointing at each other is not going to fix anything.

This does make me feel very sad though. Sad that our education system and culture let people like this down and left them so gullible. There are a lot of steps that have to happen before people make terrible decisions like this.

This isn’t excusing it but I am an Anthropologist and I can’t help but look at everything as an elaborate cultural web. The disease is way deeper than the voting populace. These people were lied to and believed it?!

By all means I encourage saying anything to pass off Elmo. Was just agreeing with the above point. I can do both.

What a punchable face.

Indeed. Most people don’t know what a real Swastika is because of Nazi fuckheads. They don’t deserve to be able to continue using the term.

You put the equivalent of mobsters in the White House and suddenly these checks don’t matter. As a country we fucked around and found out.

Seriously I tried warning people but they were certain that our existing laws would hold up. It’s heartbreaking.

So it’s like your average American doesn’t believe this is even a possibility regardless as to what they have said.

There are a lot of reasons for this. Many of us did see it coming. However, we have all still been culturally brainwashed to think that our government has too many checks for things to get this far out of hand.

It is a lot more difficult to be evicted in most states (even if you don’t pay your rent) than it is to be picked up by ICE.

I get it. I’ve been too poor to even make it to work at least a few times. (Could not pay for the gas or a ride)

The point is right now we need numbers to protect what very very little autonomy we still have. If it would absolutely kill you to participate then don’t but we don’t need this shit right now.

Don’t let the pursuit of perfection keep us from uniting. Now is the time for common ground.