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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 213 points 1 day ago (7 children)

They have guns up the wazoo to ensure no tyrant will ever rule them, and a tyrant rules them.

[–] bloogoose@lemmy.zip 89 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A coward with a gun is still a coward.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 points 10 hours ago

Most people buy guns because they're cowards.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And the people yelling “come and take it” while waving “don’t tread on me” flags voted the tyrants in.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

I guess it wasn't a threat after all and they were just shouting out their kink

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"don't tread on me" in the streets, "please step on me daddy trump" in the sheets

[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The funniest common combination I see on cars is the Gadsden flag (don't tread on me) and the thin blue line flag (support for cops). I don't know how to read that any other way than "I support cops targeting those people."

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I love leopards that eat peoples faces, just don't eat my face

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The Tyrant started by lulling them first.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 22 hours ago

If that's all it takes to silence the guns, then they don't deserve the guns.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There's a DLC for Assassin's Creed III called The Tyranny of King Washington, exploring an alternate reality with a corrupt president. Not so wild a theory now

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I encourage you to read up on prior presidents if you think Trump is some kind of anomaly.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump is still an anomaly. It's been bad, but this is something else entirely. He is simultaneously the dumbest, most evil, and most corrupt President, and it's not even close.

He commits new acts worse than Watergate multiple times a week.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Maybe I do need to read up on US Presidential history, but as my knowledge stands right now I'd say that, aside from only two or three presidents, every leadership has been progressive in some form. Every one except Trump and a couple others has objectively improved something for the majority of the public. Mr. Orange is, if anything, proof of de-evolution.

I mean even Nixon gave us the EPA. I was not aware during Reagan, so I associate him with excellent jelly beans and hatred. Jelly beans are good, right?

Neo-liberalism has brought us here, it's designed to slowly ratchet us toward another authoritarian state. Because you cannot dare mar the sanctity of the "Free Market" you have to sacrifice at its altar everything else.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 12 points 1 day ago

All they had to do was teach them that tyranny looks like a bunch of brown people having jobs.

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah Bubba and his gun ain’t doing shit to watchdog the government. In fact I’m quite certain that the government is the only thing keeping Bubba from killing ME with his gun and moving into my house because he feels like it.