hydrospanner @ hydrospanner @lemmy.world

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Exactly.

Say it with me, "The State should not have a monopoly on violence."

It's also a lightning rod issue that turns more voters away than it attracts.

Sure there are staunch anti-gun people under the Democrats' tent but they're not the kind of people who will vote Republican if the party suddenly scaled back or ended its decades long futile efforts at gun bans.

On the other hand there are a ton of white working class voters on the suburban-rural fringes of swing states who would absolutely at least consider a Democrat if the party wasn't so easily cast as "gun grabbers and job killers who only care about minorities".

You get a pro-union, pro-legal-gun Democrat on a ticket who speaks on issues affecting rural whites as much as they do urban non-white voters (who are equally important), and you'd have a winner in many of these areas where they've been quite red, but not so rabidly Trumpy as other areas.

Even moreso if that's a change that happened at the party/platform level.

I feel like from a campaign strategy standpoint, guns are just a lose-lose for the Democratic party. Playing to a base that would be loyal anyway for other reasons, even if the party dropped that position completely (which would not only eliminate a deal breaker issue for rural Democrats but also eliminate a cornerstone of the GOP platform in "protecting the second amendment"). Unless they did a complete about face and suddenly became as cozy with the NRA as Republicans, anti-gun voters might be upset, but they're still voting blue.

After all there's still abortion, electoral reform, racial justice, the environment, education, foreign policy, infrastructure, legal weed, LGBT rights, healthcare, and a host of other issues where the Dems are still their people.

I mean, when you're talking about, essentially, "Hey just to be safe we're going to permanently remove one of your constitutional rights without due process." then it's a no-go for me.

Imagine if anyone arrested just for being present at a protest that turned violent, whether that individual was violent or not...or even just made a social media post that they agreed with the protestors...well sorry, but just to be safe, we're going to revoke your first amendment right to assembly for the rest of your life.

Erring on the side of caution, you know. Never can tell when those peaceful assemblies might turn violent and you've already shown a risk factor.

And when a TrumpAir jet goes down, the families of the partners get the cleanup and aircraft replacement bills, since that plane never would have been in the air if not for them, so it's really their fault.

Right?

This is "just before an election" like Obama's Garland nomination.

Which reminds me: when is Mitch McConnell going to finally die?

That's when you send them a handwritten, crayon-on-construction-paper letter that just says, "OOPS! NO TAKE BACKSIES!"

Nobody said otherwise.

If somehow, Trump managed to off himself despite constant monitoring by his secret service detail, what a shame that'd be.

I might have to take a day off of work just to celebrate.

For me, literally everything except the balding and I really couldn't give a shit, I'll buzz it all off anyway.

Infinite rare fish? Well as it happens, fishing is my biggest hobby, so that's just fuckin delightful.

Mongolian real estate empire? Well that's passive income and/or something I can sell. As a mongol mogul, in gonna try working the angle of an exotic but affordable fishing, hunting, and nature tourism destination, really try to put Mongolia on the map for Western tourists.

No taxes dovetails nicely here, also making it easier to both expand as well as make the business model more resilient.

Neighbors scared of me? Great! If they seem cool, I'll reach out to them, otherwise, fear is a great way to not have to deal with shitty neighbors! In Mongolia they'll be far away anyway.

Night light to keep the monsters at bay.

And the balding we will deal with by just keeping it buzzed low or shaving my head completely.

Or like those worker safety counters: XX Days Since Last Lost-Life Lemonade Accident

That's a bold statement for someone putting so much stock in the implications of 11 month pre-election polling.

You should really comment less on shit you don't know about, you're embarrassing yourself.

At this stage in the game, isn't that basically the only difference?

I've never understood how this became an issue of shaming and exclusion.

Literally just star bellied sneetches.

You guys are getting done?

Seriously, there's so much for me to do that I could work OT for the next year and never once have a time where I was ever "done with everything".

By the time the next generation dies, this may be the only way to own Legos, with the company long since having gone over to a subscription service where your new lease on life is their only alternative to leasing Legos!

Shapes...once they get to you.

It seemed apparent, to me at least, that the person you replied to had the intention of telling their loved ones not to spend on OP's account. Not that they're forbidding the family from any course of action.

I guess if you take it super literally, okay, whatever. But the smallest amount of thought seems to make this obvious.

Some of it's yeeeuuuuuge.

Let's build a club.

With like metal spikes all over the end of it for maximum damage?

So do what they do with anyone else in the system too poor to pay for privileges: into jail with you so we know where to find you.

Not even half of the voters.

And that's the sentiment of millions of Americans.

And regardless of how polls try to adjust to compensate and show results among the population, the fact of the matter is that they can only poll a subset demographic of "poll respondents", which means "people eager to share their political views to anyone who will listen".

And these days, your average trump voter is orders of magnitude more likely to want to be a loudmouth to anyone who'll listen...compared to millions of Biden voters who aren't even Biden supporters.

Of all these people wailing and gnashing teeth over these polls, I wonder how many of them have paid close attention to polls and polling over the last decade. Because most of them, it seems like they only discovered this shit over the past 4 years if that. Some sound like they only learned what a poll was this morning.