I'm a leftist who (generally) supports gun ownership and this whole "Ghost Gun" thing really is just scaremongering over the larger issue of guns.
I'm not afraid of a plastic one-shot.22 handgun. No politician should be either.
If I was GOING to be afraid of a gun (which I'm not really?) I'd be afraid of something like say, a hi-point c9 which can be had for $50-150 brand new and fires a deadlier round, more of them, and shoots straight. A criminal does not give 3/5ths of a shit that the gun can be traced, and especially not because $50-150 is ass-wiping money if you're going to profit from whatever you do. C9s are just as disposable as a 3d printed gun, it's just that they actually do their job better and likely won't spray shrapnel into your face.
Now we just need to start educating people on what a social democracy actually is, since we've let thinktank dipshits say everything but rampant laissez faire capitalism means the government just take's everyone's stuff.
You're already living in a relatively fascist society thanks to the right and centrist liberals. You're spied on, can be disappeared with no trial for any reason someone can just make up, the cops can just shoot you dead for any reason they feel like any get away with it about 90% of the time, capital is working on basically owning the IDEA of ideas, and if you're not the top 0.0001% every system is made to deny you any sort of help and funnel your money to said 0.0001%.
I think maybe kicking these people out for people who maybe, possibly think you deserve an ounce of dignity if you're not ultra-rich isn't really that crazy. Yeah- they're all wholly corruptible as any of us but that's not really an excuse for inaction.
This view that we can just tech ourselves out of everything when our governmental and economic systems are based around infinite growth on a planet with pretty distinctly finite resources is always a wonder to see.
Libertarianism is the ultimate "fuck you, got mine" philosophy and needs to go away ASAP. If the original intent of the philosophy meant anything it has long since been lost to the kind of stupid people who adopt it as means of complaining about the government whenever it inconveniences them in any way shape or form by acting or NOT acting. It was never "get the government out of my life", it was "Get the government out of my life if it gets in my way at all, but also have it in my life if other people get in my way".
A good modern version of their argument is how they're free speech absolutists when it suits their needs. The government shouldn't be policing anything...unless I get kicked off of twitter or youtube, THEN it should police these private corporations because I'm mad now.
Can we seriously start guillotining the shitty libertardian people here? Anyone still posting on this place should be well past their fedora libertarian athiest phase unless they have some sort of prion disease eating holes in their brain.
"Uhhh listen, just because my hella-lame board of directors didn't want to go with my astoundingly le-epic for the win bacon start up plan didn't mean they had to have security wheel me out to the parking lot in my Aeron chair" - totally normal CEO
There is no precedent behind it. Twitter, Google, etc. are all private corporate entities and you are not entitled to have a platform there. They can ban you for whatever reason they please.
Last time I checked Twitter, Youtube, etc. are private entities who can decide to host or not host anyone they want because hey, we're a capitalist society.
If you're saying the government should nationalize Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook so it actually become a free speech issue, well...
Given the debt load of the these two latest generations, the McJob Market, and the continuing concentration of wealth towards the 0.0001% while wages continue to stagnate in the face of increasing productivity I'd say I'm right and you can go pound sand, little anon.
It just means the people who onesy-twosy'd ROMs from these sites need to just make like more savvy pirates and just pull the entire NES/SNES/GBA/DS/N64/etc etc libraries from Bittorrent.
Yeah, it's nice to just pick out what you want and get it, but the entire library of every NES/Famicom game ever released (including some that weren't!) is a commanding...50 or so MB. Just do a one-and-done torrent for each system and throw it on a thumbdrive or in your cloud storage (with a password protected archive) or burn it to Bluray/DVD or whatever and never have to think about it ever again?
I've bought a ton of shit from Nintendo over the years. In a lot of the straight-rereleases and Virtual Console games they're literally using the ROMs the pirates ripped back in the 80's/90's with fucking cart readers, along with GPL sourcecode for NES/SNES/etc emulators that they don't contribute their changes to or make code available for. Fuck em.
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I'm a leftist who (generally) supports gun ownership and this whole "Ghost Gun" thing really is just scaremongering over the larger issue of guns.
I'm not afraid of a plastic one-shot .22 handgun. No politician should be either.
If I was GOING to be afraid of a gun (which I'm not really?) I'd be afraid of something like say, a hi-point c9 which can be had for $50-150 brand new and fires a deadlier round, more of them, and shoots straight. A criminal does not give 3/5ths of a shit that the gun can be traced, and especially not because $50-150 is ass-wiping money if you're going to profit from whatever you do. C9s are just as disposable as a 3d printed gun, it's just that they actually do their job better and likely won't spray shrapnel into your face.
You...don't really understand what a social democracy is.
There's billions of people living through capitalism killing them right now, dickless.
That's a lot less than capitalism has killed at this point if we're going on made up numbers.
You have already given up your freedom by choosing to be part of a society. That is literally the point of a society.
"Objective Fact", right.
Well, means it won't hurt to try something else doesn't it?
Well to you it looks like that condition is, "Do they agree with me or not?"
Now we just need to start educating people on what a social democracy actually is, since we've let thinktank dipshits say everything but rampant laissez faire capitalism means the government just take's everyone's stuff.
You're already living in a relatively fascist society thanks to the right and centrist liberals. You're spied on, can be disappeared with no trial for any reason someone can just make up, the cops can just shoot you dead for any reason they feel like any get away with it about 90% of the time, capital is working on basically owning the IDEA of ideas, and if you're not the top 0.0001% every system is made to deny you any sort of help and funnel your money to said 0.0001%.
I think maybe kicking these people out for people who maybe, possibly think you deserve an ounce of dignity if you're not ultra-rich isn't really that crazy. Yeah- they're all wholly corruptible as any of us but that's not really an excuse for inaction.
This view that we can just tech ourselves out of everything when our governmental and economic systems are based around infinite growth on a planet with pretty distinctly finite resources is always a wonder to see.
This has never been a good answer because under capitalism the capitalists have been in fact, Greedy, Self-Interested, and Power-Hungry.
Libertarianism is the ultimate "fuck you, got mine" philosophy and needs to go away ASAP. If the original intent of the philosophy meant anything it has long since been lost to the kind of stupid people who adopt it as means of complaining about the government whenever it inconveniences them in any way shape or form by acting or NOT acting. It was never "get the government out of my life", it was "Get the government out of my life if it gets in my way at all, but also have it in my life if other people get in my way".
A good modern version of their argument is how they're free speech absolutists when it suits their needs. The government shouldn't be policing anything...unless I get kicked off of twitter or youtube, THEN it should police these private corporations because I'm mad now.
Can we seriously start guillotining the shitty libertardian people here? Anyone still posting on this place should be well past their fedora libertarian athiest phase unless they have some sort of prion disease eating holes in their brain.
Fuck "Job Creators" and this pseudo-slavery shit.
"Uhhh listen, just because my hella-lame board of directors didn't want to go with my astoundingly le-epic for the win bacon start up plan didn't mean they had to have security wheel me out to the parking lot in my Aeron chair" - totally normal CEO
"Rather than working through the issues in an epic startup for the win"
Anyone who uses a phrase like this unironically probably isn't someone I'd want as CEO.
There is no precedent behind it. Twitter, Google, etc. are all private corporate entities and you are not entitled to have a platform there. They can ban you for whatever reason they please.
~That's Capitalism!~
It has killed scores more than that.
Last time I checked Twitter, Youtube, etc. are private entities who can decide to host or not host anyone they want because hey, we're a capitalist society.
If you're saying the government should nationalize Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook so it actually become a free speech issue, well...
Deplatforming doesn't give him credibility with anyone but dumbshits who already agree with him.
Deplatforming takes away a platform he can use to continue to slander people for profit.
Given the debt load of the these two latest generations, the McJob Market, and the continuing concentration of wealth towards the 0.0001% while wages continue to stagnate in the face of increasing productivity I'd say I'm right and you can go pound sand, little anon.
"Socialism has been tried many times on many levels and it simply doesn't work."
It hasn't been tried many times.
It's almost like capitalism hasn't done shit to help 2+ generations of people in a row.
Surely, blaming them for the problem while selling them down the road will serve the generations that didn't get totally fucked over.
Alex Jones should be deplatformed for the slander he committed against the Sandy Hook parents.
The the better to charge you more in the name of short-term profits!
It just means the people who onesy-twosy'd ROMs from these sites need to just make like more savvy pirates and just pull the entire NES/SNES/GBA/DS/N64/etc etc libraries from Bittorrent.
Yeah, it's nice to just pick out what you want and get it, but the entire library of every NES/Famicom game ever released (including some that weren't!) is a commanding...50 or so MB. Just do a one-and-done torrent for each system and throw it on a thumbdrive or in your cloud storage (with a password protected archive) or burn it to Bluray/DVD or whatever and never have to think about it ever again?
I've bought a ton of shit from Nintendo over the years. In a lot of the straight-rereleases and Virtual Console games they're literally using the ROMs the pirates ripped back in the 80's/90's with fucking cart readers, along with GPL sourcecode for NES/SNES/etc emulators that they don't contribute their changes to or make code available for. Fuck em.