My SO and I voted today! First time doing it in person since I don’t trust drop boxes and mail-ins given the MAGA shenanigans.

Are… Are you referring to yourself in the 3rd person?

I take back my up-lemms

I mistakenly thought Squid was suggesting that privacy for gun owners wasn’t a valid topic for discussion.

Following that, I was establishing the importance of privacy for gun owners because, well… We may need them if there is a successful coup.

Running with new head gaskets perhaps.

Squid, you are always a joy to converse with. I’d like to know what your “something” is but something tells me you won’t tell me if I ask 😉

You could have just mentioned that you were referencing other responses to previous events. Regardless, I’ll take the L because I guess I did miss the point.

Maybe I really did miss the point. What did you mean by, “Now is not the time to talk about gun privacy control.”

I took it to mean you didn’t think it was a valid issue for discussion.

My point hasn’t changed at all, my point was to establish that you agree it was a coup attempt.

Given a possible coup, a list of all gun owners (regardless of political affiliation) is bad. Privacy rights are important, even for people we disagree with.

Exactly. Now assuming they were successful (or a future attempt is) how do we fight them? I somehow doubt a peaceful march will sway them to restore democracy.

If you don’t know who “DJT and his ilk” are, then who is “them” in your response?

Point is, if your government is about to be overrun, why would you give the government/state a monopoly on violence?

Do you trust the police/military to be the sole owners of firearms given the current political climate? I know you don’t like cops Squid, and Trump has already threatened to deploy the military against civilians and political opponents.

Oh I got the point Squid, I disagree :)

Tell me, do you feel Jan 6th was a genuine coup attempt? As in, DJT and his ilk were actually interested in and attempting to maintain and consolidate their power in the government outside of the election results?

I agree, we need action to protect people’s privacy from unethical warrantless searches and monitoring.

Snowden tried to warn us…

BECAUSE this is the ONLY way to TEACH real people the TRUTH about {[them]}!!!

1 like = 1 prayer

/s

MK Ultra and Area 51 were a conspiracy theories… Until they were formally acknowledged.

I have seen some live events on YouTube with captions, but autogenerated captions may not be available to all channels.

And no captions for this that can’t hear.

Gimme that sweet and savory nutrient paste.

Now with 50% more paste!

Hold the egg up to a candle or light bulb, you should be able to see through most common eggs.

Obviously EuroTrainSimulator 2023, it’s the new minecraft

What are you talking about? He fought against special treatment BEFORE getting reprisals. He was punished after treating people equally, not before.

The settlement was about the reprisals he faced for sticking to his guns and NOT becoming corrupt. You should be mad at the pig in charge who pushed for the demotion, not the guy doing the right thing.

I’m not aware of any headlines stating that. How do you know this is the only corruption they fought?

Seems like he was doing his job professionally and ignoring requests by superiors to give special treatment, all the way to reprisals and getting demoted because he wouldn’t stoop to their corruption… Isn’t that what we want with cops?

ACAB, except the ones actually fighting and fixing this stuff. We need good ones and should encourage them.