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>>2272667 552 posts and 127 image replies omitted.>>2276975I'm sure you've done stuff. My family is caught up in stupid cases, some of them were never caught. It's just retarded. Why not take your chances now instead of this Whataburger job?
Anyways, I don't give a fuck, do what you do. Do stupid shit and get caught up with felonies, it's probably smarter not to.
>>2276955<This translates to about 30% of Americans who say they personally own a firearmAnon you just repeated what I said. Did you even read that before you copypasted it?
And even your dumb counterargument STILL admits that gun owners are not a majority of the population!
>>2276983<It's an undercount<1 in 2Anon do you notice that you keep having to shift your argument and engage in weaseling? You don't have any underlying foundation to what you're saying. It's desperate and sad.
>what does it matter if 1 in 2 have access to a gun?Did you read the post I made or what I was replying to? I was making a broader point about how what we stereotype as "American culture" isn't actually reflective of most Americans in a lot of cases. I used gun nuts as an example because of the pic anon posted. A minority of the population of the population owns guns and a very small minority of petty-bourg owns most of the guns. Generalizing them as all Americans is foolish and makes "changing the culture" look insurmountable.
Again, what we're really proposing culturally, regardless of each specific issue, is displacing a small minority from power.
>>2276978My grandfather did 20 years in Angola for selling crack. I spent my teen years in and out of weekend jail stays. I'm not too keen on doing time for what ultimately amounts to giving money to some landlord leech.
Selling bud to my co-workers doesn't benefit me from the perspective of someone who is trying to salt their work place. I talk about this in my job blog (paid members only :v))
Today I will remind them.
>Homeland and Hip-Hop
To think about the origins of hip-hop in this culture
And also about Homeland Security
Is to see that there are, at the very least, two worlds in America One of the well-to-do and another of the struggling
For if ever there was the absence of homeland security, it is seen in the gritty roots of hip-hop
For the music arises from a generation that feels, with some justice
That they have been betrayed by those who came before them That they are at best tolerated in schools, feared on the streets And almost inevitably destined for the hell holes of prison
They grew up hungry, hated, and unloved
And this is the psychic fuel that generates the anger that seems endemic in much of the music and poetry
One senses very little hope above the personal goals of wealth to climb above the pit of poverty
In the broader society, the opposite is true
For here, more than any other place on earth, wealth is so widespread and so bountiful
That what passes for the middle class in America could pass for the upper class in most of the rest of the world
Their very opulence and relative wealth makes them insecure And homeland security is a governmental phrase that is as oxymoronic as crazy as saying military intelligence
Or the U.S Department of Justice
They're just words, they have very little relationship to reality Now do you feel safer now? Do you think you will anytime soon?
Do you think duct tape and Kleenex and color codes will make you safe?
From Death Row, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal
>>2276994>Everyone where I grew up owned guns and it wasn't White bourg. I think you're projecting.…
You are literally projecting your OWN anecdotal experience you dumb fuck. You've gone from misreading the data, to trying to massage the data, to rejecting the data in favor of vibes.
>It's the White bourg that live in gated communities and don't own guns.Small business tyrants who own restaurants or HVAC are petty bourg. The kind of people who can afford to drop what they're doing and hop on a plane to engage in political action. Those are the kinds of people who own a lot of guns. People who are genuinely proletariat are not spending all their money on hundreds of guns. We're not taking about owning one gun for "self-defense" here (which, again, is still a minority of the US population).
>>2277004Maybe, but I don't know what I expected to happen. Perhaps humanity has been doomed since the collapse of the USSR.
>>2277005At this rate America is going to murder all of humanity.
>>2277009Yeah despite liberals trying to hype up Biden as the second coming of FDR I really feel we were heading for a far-right takeover eventually.
>>2277013Fair enough. Maybe I'm just a cringe lib.
>>2276988the circus theme song is ironically called
Entrance of the Gladiators by Julius Fučík
>>2277033God just imagine
You're a famous composer, your nation has united for the first time in over a millennia and in YOUR lifetime no less and you're called upon to create a tune invoking the rites of your forefathers. You zero in on those brave warriors who risked their lives for the sake of entertaining crowds, who's existence would be shocking today but was common then, the thrill of the gladiator. A relic of the past that we yet admire because we somewhat envy how the past did not hold life in high regard, there is always that urging inside us to return to an era where killing is easier because ultimately man is an animal and wants to obey his primary instincts. That's what this piece is about in the end, a celebration of man's base nature.
Now imagine that less than a century later you find out that your beautiful composition is now basically an auditory cue that people are going to act like morons
>>2276719Tariffs work in certain situations for certain people with certain goals. They certainly
don't work as a cure-all for decades of de-industrialization lmfao, especially not when you don't accompany them with any really effective policy for re-industrialization. Really if America wanted to be not-fucked in this situation it should have started breaking off from China and re-industrializing in the 1990s but they were too high on Neoliberalism and Fukuyama to do that.
>>2276701I gotta start grifting these dumbasses
>>2276920>Noble, but pointless>NobleSpooky
>pointlessaccurate
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