They’re just straight up evil.

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    They’ve had a hardon for public broadcasting for thirty years, which is why NPR and PBS have been preparing for this and why their funding largely doesn’t come from the feds anymore. It’s a hollow victory, it’s just depressing because anymore, it seems the right gets everything they want. They get it all. All of it. And we get nothing.

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      What’s sick is that they are a fraction of this country. But thanks to their money and their platforms, they can constantly repeat the lie that “most people are conservatives”.

      No, the kind of weird perverted freaks that dream of killing funding to NPR and PBS are definitely not normal and not the majority. But yeah, thanks to a lot of various things, they get what they want…it’s sickening.

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          Second Amendment of the American Constitution: “the right to keep and bear arms”.

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            Yeah, when people post this it means, “shooting people will fix everything.” It conveniently ignores that the government has control of the most powerful military in the world. Now, if the MILITARY were also in on the “2A” talk, it would be different, but I very much doubt they will be.

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              Pretty much. Americans are the most heavily armed civilian population in the world, hasn’t prevented their slide into decay.

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              What event in recent history makes you think the US military is any good at dealing with insurgencies? In addition to the most powerful military, the US also has the most heavily armed populace in the entire world. Rebellion here would be a bloodbath of historical propprtions but the people would win. If you call that winning.

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                “The enforcement arm of the fascist government is irrelevant.”

                I don’t see any way this can be true. How do you figure?

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                  Because you think the 2A means “meet an entire military force on a battlefield”. Nobody with actual thinking ability would jump to that conclusion, as you have done.

                  None of this has anything at all to do with the US military.

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                    So, when you’re out there shooting up law enforcement, politicians, whoever you think killing would help bring down the government - what exactly do you think the response will be? “Oh no, they have guns, we surrender?”