Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Meanlucario
I’m not sure where you heard this, but just so you know Australia has a much lower amount of gun deaths per 100,000 people then the US before they implemented legislation and it was trending down. If by “similar situation” you think that means they were rivaling the US in the number of deaths then you are wrong.

@Background Pony #6B50
You do have a point regarding the stats before 1996/7. Gun deaths in the UK and Australia were significantly lower than those in the US in the decades prior, and were on a slow decline, but it still can’t be denied that after most of their guns were confiscated, virtually ZERO mass/school shootings took place there since. Meanwhile in the US the 1994 Assault Weapons ban expired in 2004, and as a result of conservatives loosening restrictions across the board the amount of mass shootings (including those with double digit body counts) have drastically increased.

I can’t deny that those events did decline in Australia, but I can deny this part of your post. This is a huge assumption that because of the AWB expiration and because of “loosening restrictions” these events happened.

First: Columbine happened during the AWB, so it dick-and-all to stop that.

Second: gun control is dead. A Kurdish guy from Germany killed it back in 2020 with the release of the “Fuck Gun Control - 9mm,” which has been showing up in increasing number in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

You choices are either Totalitarianism that would make the Chinese blush or solve the social problems that cause gun violence. I’m obviously in favour of the latter, because public housing and affordable and accessible healthcare solve a lot of other social problems too.

As I like to say: Instead of confiscating the guns, why not confiscate the billionaire’s wealth and use it to solve social problems?

But thats the realm of fiction and has nothing to do with intersex or trans.

Following that futa is fiction, i don’t see people making that connection, they don’t see a futa character and think intersex/trans, they see a female character with male genitalia.

I have talked to a couple people like that and its not that hard to figure out why: they dislike the maleness, its their sexual attraction speaking and a female with a cock is still a female.

@Seiken
You do realize that dicks are a male thing for humans, right?

@Ebalosus
I reject the idea of “instead of” you propose to distract from the obvious “as well as”.

Sadly, the SCOTUS seems to have more or less broken legal gun control in the US with a very recent ruling. Therefore, from here on there can be no half measures - the target must be the Second Amendment itself.

So yeah, these fuckers are getting more and more brazen.

At the Pine Valley Public Library in Wilmington, NC, a group of Proud Boys were escorted by police into a room where an LGBTQ story hour was being held. According to eye witnesses, they began to shout obscenities and demand “a tour of the pornography and drag queens that their tax money was being spent on to indoctrinate children,” all while having their phones out to film everybody. More details further down in the linked thread.

This wasn’t even a drag queen story hour (not that it’d be acceptable to disrupt it if it were), just library staff reading LGBTQ inclusive kids’ books such as Daddy and Dada and Heather Has Two Mommies to families with small children. For people who claim to be “protecting children,” they sure do love threatening and traumatizing them.

Unsurprisingly, the County Sheriff’s office told a completely different story to the press about their involvement in the matter.

This will be said in the same breath as “if you have a penis you’re a man and not woman, trans isn’t real”.

@BlitztheDragon
Unironically, the left and minority groups need to realize the 2a isn’t going away any time soon and just arm themselves. Proudboys or QAnon or WBC show up to start trouble and fuck around? Let them find out.

In fiction anything goes, so even if its reality a male organ. In fiction you can attach whatever you want and if its a super soaker.

Probably, but in that context we speak of reality and not fiction.

@BlitztheDragon
The children were never the reason, just the excuse.

@Seiken
Fiction tends to reflect reality, kiddo.

@Seiken
So, classic Republican behaviour: happy to jerk it off to gay and trans porn, maybe even call in some for paid sex, but then don’t treat them as real people.

Fiction is always somewhat based on reality, but if its a reflection then its not fiction anymore, thats called a documentary.

First off, i would strongly doubt that this is republican exclusive or even heavily weighted towards republicans and not agreeing to a worldview doesn’t make someone not real. People don’t perish into nothingness because someone doesn’t agree with how a person perceives themselves.

My thoughts exactly.

@Seiken
Sure, sure. And if legislators had decided to keep insisting black people weren’t deserving of the same rights as whites, that wouldn’t have actually had any effect, right? I mean, it was just a disagreement on how one group perceived another, they weren’t actually less.

@Seiken
That’s a lie. Documentaries don’t need to be true.

I don’t think thats applicable, not even close. One was seeing a group of people as sub-human / animals. The other is seeing a group of people as either male or female, still human. It doesn’t make them lesser.

Well that’s how i understand them, if they don’t need to be true then what makes a documentary a documentary?

@Seiken
Let’s completely ignore how those people, particularly the ones in power, consider anyone trans to be a liar, insane, mentally ill, a groomer, deserving of ostracism or worse, etc.

Instead of, you know, treating them like human beings worthy of respect.

You actually can’t, unless you really want to accelerate the end of the nation-state from my predicted 20-30 years to within the decade or close to it. I mean, I want that too, even if it means cyberpunk dystopias for the next few decades to centuries, but I digress.

The LGBTQ people I know are armed and ready, with minorities pretty close behind, and the larger body-politic of leftists coming around to that as well. More ardent leftists of the “under no pretexts…” variety like Redneck Revolt and the Socialist Rifle Association (to a lesser extent) are already armed and ready.

It’s why I find the idiot liberal cope of “well if [insert minority here] started carrying guns en masse, then the GQP would pass gun control in an instant!” so galling, because modern republicans don’t give an ounce of a shit that leftists and minorities are armed, due to A) generally being pro-gun for everyone, and B) are or at least perceiving themselves to be both better equipped and better armed than the “idiot leftist who just bought a Hi-Point or a Cali/NY-compliant AR/AK.”

@Seiken
I think they need to be informative and give off the illusion of being factual. I don’t remember the details, it has been a long time since I first learn that.

As a few people have noted before, people are fine with people being gay as long as they can jerk off to it

When it comes time to actually protecting gays or making things easier for them?

Now that’s just asking too much

@Ebalosus
Not to be cynical (more than usual, anyway), but I’d bet it’d take one single proudboy/neonazi riot being met with a hail of bullets from a minority group for a fair amount of Republicans to suddenly turn the clock back to the 70s and make sure guns don’t end up in the hands of “the wrong people”.

Remember, Governor Reagan was all for open carry of guns right up until black people started doing it. Then he signed one of the few (and until recently, one of the last) gun regulations in the country so fast even the Flash couldn’t keep up.