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  • unlike other comments, I'd argue, like most tech, it was incredibly profitable for anyone except the people funding it.

    Business is not about extracting money from goods and services, it's about tricking VC funders to give you 50 million dollars a year

  • The concept that "if jews had guns" the holocaust wouldn't have happened was deliberate inflammatory rhetoric and propaganda from the NRA and US right wing talk radio (Rush Limbaugh et al) and is not based in fact or truth, and only arose in the 1990s as a last ditch attempt to prevent (American) gun control laws.

    Intellectually and philosophically the problem with the argument is that you are imagining an entirely fictional past (Jews having guns in the Weimar Republic) and claiming that the imagined fantasy past proves that the real history and present would have successfully been altered. It would be as logical to claim that if Jews had dynamite, or chainsaws, or wore plate armor, or carried a magical talisman, or memorized a specific poem they could have prevented the holocaust. All of which, including guns, is extremely improbable at best.

    And so is the case here. I asked another commenter when they expected to start killing cops, and how many they expect to kill. No reply. I'm not telling you or recommending you do it, I just find it interesting that everyone telling me to kill cops on sight isn't doing it themselves.

    You pivot to "we need to stop ICE" but I don't want to lose the focus of this discussion which was suggesting that I open fire on police officers on sight as a solution to this political problem.

  • I really don't think we're clearly thinking this through. I know my next door neighbor, but if the guy three doors down has a circle of cops outside a) I might not even know depending on the amount of noise, b) I'm not going to go shooting cops in the back if I just see them.

    And when does this start? Have you shot a cop yet? Are you planning shooting cops today? Tomorrow? Next month? In 6 months?

    I dont buy it.

  • I keep seeing this advice but honestly I'd rather spend years in a El Salavadorean prison wrongly convicted with the hope of being freed than die immediately in a hail of bullets, or be rightfully imprisoned for life for killing a cop.