Basically all the leftists I know support gun ownership, there are many chapters of Socialist Rifle Associations and John Brown Gun Clubs across the country. Democrats talk about gun control but pretty much every demographic in the US loves guns still. They just aren't sufficiently organized yet to be effective against this stuff, and most people still have a lot to lose that it's hard to make the first serious acts of resistance.

I was in several protests that were violently suppressed by police in the US, using tear gas, flash bangs, beatings etc. After threats and fascist violence, groups of armed leftists joined in more frequently. For whatever reason I can't recall the police attacking while they were there. Like the IDF killing children, they only want defenseless victims.

I walked through a park just a bit ago and there was a juggling group performing. There's also a person in my city that hula hoops continuously while dancing all over downtown, often on rollerskates. It's all a delight to see in our typical modern hell scape, even if they weren't good at it, I enjoy people having fun.

I see, you just don't know what you are talking about, my mistake.

Plenty of us volunteer too, it's not like people can only do one thing. Some people don't have time but they have money, others vise versa. People do what they can. Why are you so hostile to this?

Yeah some, there are fundraisers for people in Palestine or people in global south countries that post plenty as well. I wasn't saying that was the most effective of the ways people are trying to help, just one form

It's as simple as this, my mom explained it to me at 8 years old: "A lot of parents give their kids money for good grades or doing chores, but that teaches them to do things for the money and not because it's the right thing to do."

It's a habit, like a drug addiction, your brain is rewarded by profit and molds itself around that, altering your view of right and wrong.

Yes actually, the mutual_aid comm is one of the most active on hexbear, I have personally helped comrades through it. Others have posted many times about the food they and their crew made for the community for free, or union organization efforts, or plenty of other actions.

It's just a suggestion, and I wasn't saying that there were necessarily a lot of fascists on the fediverse, I meant antifascist action in general. In my view it would be more useful to put in energy to fight against that or poverty or hunger or any other issue than just dwelling on and shaming internet leftists, if one's goal is improve the condition of society.

People like this manager hire undocumented immigrants because they can pay them less and they can abuse them under the threat of deportation. Are you suggesting an inconsistency in his behavior? Majority of immigrants do enter at ports of entry actually, and furthermore, go fuck yourself.

I'd rather people who say shit like your comment be deported, if I supported any sort of deportations.

don’t get a good faith exception if I truly thought that the speed limit was actually 75 instead of 55

If you have a decent lawyer this is possible I'm pretty sure. Essentially the wealthy do get a good faith exception.

Part of me is leaning towards Luigi being the guy and he planned on getting arrested with this 'too good to be true' evidence in this little known PA town, because he was banking on them bungling it and he knew he would have a good legal team making it seem planted, or at the least have widespread public support if he did get charged.

Every election in my life has been 'the most important in history ' or whatever. As a brown person you should have more awareness that no vote, no established politician will save us from the right, that Democrats are hardly even opposition anymore and are simply a donation gathering organization putting on the airs of a relevent party.

There is no political motivation for anyone in power to slow the rise of fascism, or to stop a genocide going on in Palestine or one being prepared in the US. There is no point in acting like Kamala or anyone in the US political class has any chance of preventing the numerous crises building, or even a desire to. The sooner more on the left can recognize this, the sooner we can start working on actual solutions.

Which are you referring to? There are still thousands of Palestinian people in Israeli detention, many indefinitely with no charges, including hundreds of children.

Sbarro was founded by two Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, they were probably real NYC pizza at one point

If someone is shot and paralyzed, but dies years later from complications it is ruled as a murder in connection with the shooting. If someone is horrifically abused and commits suicide, should the suspects of the abuse have some culpability in the death?

Whether suicide or murder, her blood is on Epstein and company's hands.

I have had a day where I was sure I wanted to die and years where I didn't. It's possible for it to change in an instant. I don't know any details of her situation, but just pointing out that that can change from moment to moment.

It's so clear how much more the state cares about the rich. They spent millions searching for him when the same week there were multiple other people killed in NYC that didn't even receive news coverage let alone a multi-million dollar manhunt.

According to most that would use the term disparagingly these days I would be a tankie, so I mean we as in me and other 'tankies'.