Comment on Common Ground

Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The right wants the right to self defense, the left wants to lick boots, the right thinks that deporting illegal immigrants is the default, the left thinks that it’s another Holocaust, the right thinks that the government spending less money is good, the left wants the government to burn money like it’s coal.

  So yeah… The part about being lied to. Right there. It’s all right there.

  There are plenty of gun owners on the left for one and the conversation is pretty much always about the excessive “weapons of war” like assault rifles. Very few people are talking about getting rid of shotguns, hunting rifles, pistols, etc… hell Kamala even said she’s a gun owner, I think she owns a Glock or something.

  There is an increase of discussion of actual concentration camps because you don’t need to gas people for it to be a concentration camp. The internment camps for the Japanese in WWII were concentration camps too. The right could help fix the immigration issue if they’d focus on a plan to legally process the people faster that want to move here so there isn’t a 10 year waiting period that makes people feel like they have to enter illegally, but they’re against that.

  The last is just straight up nonsense. No one wants to just burn money. We already pay taxes, we want the taxes to help people, not just go to the military and corporate handouts.

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  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Technically the left does want “the government to burn money like it’s coal” - we don’t want either to be burned :p

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    • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good point lol

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  the left wants to lick boots

  I’m sorry? Come again? 😂

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What else do you call someone who wants the government to have all the guns?

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d call the very premise American, because only Americans think that way. Other countries like mine have national bans in place and don’t suffer from the things the US does like indiscriminate public shootings. In fact, we hope there fewer guns on the streets in the future because it works.

      Unfortunately, the very source of our arms refuses to ban them over hypothetical reasons at their own and our own expense.

      This reminds me the health insurance with privatized healthcare topic as well. It’s one of the things the US got wrong and it brings them so much pain but they’re proud to keep doing it that way even though everyone else figured it out.

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      • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        In Germany, it’s literally against the law to insult politicians. The UK is the most surveillanced country in the world(except China). Scotland still has blasphemy laws.

        I’d much rather have guns than lick boots.

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• Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, no nuances here.

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• Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The division is by design by the people in power. Weve got more in common than you think

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