It’s still kind of a free country. If you don’t want to own the tools needed to ensure your own liberty… well that is your decision.

Just don’t expect anyone who is armed on the left or the right to defend you.

TL;DR;

Your reply doesn’t make sense because it seems you didn’t understand what was said. (intentionally or unintentionally)

You don’t seem to understand a lot of my reply, let’s see if we can clear some stuff

Nobody mentioned fascists or requiring anyone to advocate for anyone else’s rights.

The post was complaining about the 2nd amendment folks not getting upset that ICE was treading on people’s rights… Why would they? Why would you expect any other group to defend your rights.

I’m not sure how this relates to either the original message you responded to, or your reply to it.

You don’t seem to understand what satire is. Either the original poster was truly upset the 2nd amendment folks were not defending other people’s rights. Or he was trying to make a satirical point outlining that 2nd Amendment people had no intention of defending people’s rights and just wanted guns. I think given the context it is the latter. Satire is great when trying to convince others that the other party is wrong I.E. Gun rights advocates were possibly lying

I will say however that a basic level of reading comprehension and good faith (the latter more than the former) would be required before i personally cared about someone’s opinion of me, laughter included.

… Ok

As we’ve established above, this is also unrelated.

I’m simply pointing out that when there is need on the left to defend yourselves with firearms you’ve undermined your case. Look up videos with armed protesters or what the Black Panthers are doing to repel ICE. The police and ICE are a lot less willing to deploy excessive force or even to engage with armed individuals.

Also, “anybody who doesn’t agree with me is a lefty” is a weak foundation for both conversation and understanding.

I literally quoted Carl Marx what makes you think I’m not on the left? Go left enough and guns are back on the table.

Pretty easy to do when the other side doesn’t have guns… 🤔

At least you know your place.

I hope you enjoy the taste of boot leather.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7601546-under-no-pretext-should-arms-and-ammunition-be-surrendered-any

2nd amendment isn’t just for the 2nd amendment guys. Attacking gun rights when the left will likely need them in the coming years is short sighted.

To attempt satire by saying that a right wing facist advocating for gun rights, is also expected to advocate for my rights is weakness in the face of aggression.

The right doesn’t laugh at the satire, they laugh at you. You undermine your own defense with others on the left.

Perhaps if you want to protect your own rights… you should have your own gun, and not depend on others to do it for you.

Some people like electric cars, some people like rice burners, some like euro engineering while others want a good old fashioned American V8. It’s all relative.

Wasn’t Bulgaria, but cool cars and trucks are one of the universal things that make most men instant bros even when they are from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Lol, you are full of shit. I’ve never seen otherwise stoic European men light up with smiles and point like kids, than when an old 70s C3 Corvette let its v8 sing and went ripping through one of the streets in an Eastern European capital.

Any individual who make blanket comments about whole sections of society will loose my respect pretty quickly.

Substitute women, blacks, Asians, Latinos, the Dutch, and just about every other subsection for the word “male” in that statement and this thread would be having a completely different conversation.

The Japanese are pretty good at horseback archery. It would be close.

“Looks at SpaceX”, Iterate quickly and break things can work for rockets, it just depends on the development phase and the type of project. I wouldn’t “iterate quickly” with manned, extra terrestrial or important cargo missions.

But it can be used for the early development of rockets. Space X had a deep well of proven technology to draw upon during the development of the Falcon rocket. They put the tech together and iterated quickly to get a final product.

Blue Origin as well as the Artemis program both use traditional techniques with similar proven technologies. I’d argue they aren’t as successful or were never intended to be successful (Artemis is just a jobs program for shuttle contractors at this point).

:Whispers: “Because it is ugly.”

Yes, because everyone has the exact same use case as you. There can be no other outdoor activities which require more space than a hatchback. /s

I love comments criticizing trucks from Lemmy users who haven’t seen sunshine or touched grass in a year.

Do any kind of outdoor activity, maintain a property or mild home renovation on the regular with your sedans and we’ll see how long it takes before they look beat to shit or have mechanical issues.

Looks at Peter… Meh. Looks at Lois Griffin cosplay…. I didn’t know that this is what I really wanted to see.