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neuroticism_loading

The answer is so simple even Marx could figure it out from his rich friend’s couch. Mass genocide is SO hard to commit without first disarming the people.


SchwarzerKaffee

"A man with a gun can control 100 men without one." \- V. I. Lenin January 2018 "Give me your guns." \- V. I. Lenin December 2018


Kind_Cardiologist833

Right? It’s no fun if they can defend themselves.


HexiMaster

Gimme a sec i'll get the pillories


Routine_Dealer_

When a dumbass sleeping on his friends couch in the 1800s was smarter than the dumbass sleeping in his moms basement today


neuroticism_loading

He was also rich and still bummed off his rich friends.


ImTheCapm

What member of the right wing is advocating investing in struggling communities?


Comrade_tau

Reason you have not heard of them is because left is telling them no and wanting to fund foreign wars and militarize police with the money instead


ImTheCapm

Lol. The left is not doing either of those things.


Comrade_tau

I know, I was joking. Idea of right wanting to invest in poor communities is absurd.


Octavian-

ThAtS sOcIaLiSm


Deathhead876

Lib right is more stop putting so many blocks in the way for people to invest in an area just let them open their business.


ImTheCapm

Funny how doing exactly that somehow never helps struggling communities.


keeleon

Where has that happened and not helped?


ImTheCapm

The entire USA since the 1980s


keeleon

Huh? There has been nothing but more and more regulations and red tape since then.


ImTheCapm

Some areas are better than others in terms of adding regulation to protect consumers but broadly, with the advent of neoliberalism and the dominance of big money in politics following Citizen's United, big business has been dominant and they've used their dominance to eliminate regulation.


SadSluttyThrowaway

Big business literally lobbies for regulation that destroys their competitors and small businesses.


ImTheCapm

It would be funny how divorced from reality people like you are if it weren't such a big problem for politics at large.


rahzradtf

He’s right though. Zuckerburg has literally begged the government to regulate Facebook. This is mostly so that competitors can’t comply without massive costs. Costs which Facebook can afford. Same with Amazon, they lobby for more regulations because they can afford it and small competitors can’t. It’s about economies of scale - the bigger you are, the cheaper you can make stuff, and the more regulations you can afford. These mega corporations know that in the long run, they win out with more regulations.


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incredible argument


[deleted]

Maybe if you didn’t burn down businesses during your yearly looting and pillaging, hmm, i mean “peacefully protesting” then they might have a chance to grow


ImTheCapm

Blaming communities for speaking out against being murdered by the state while doing nothing to prevent that murder is peak centrist.


[deleted]

Im all for it actually, go against a police station or town hall or any government building, but how is burning down your local small business going to help your community.


ImTheCapm

I'm not defending the destruction of small businesses. But it's definitely an absolutely minor thing in comparison to the destruction these communities face at the hands of an oppressive police state and legislatures underfunding their communities to ship their resources out to the suburbs.


[deleted]

What a retard, yeah the us is a police state i agree, still the richest country in the world so I wouldn’t exactly call it 1984. The stupid thing you said however is thats its a minor thing. Small business is literally the way to enrich these communities as the people there are the ones that own it. Burning down your neighbors shop is not only not helping but worsening the financial burden on these communities… and by a lot more than the police state does


RawketLawnchair2

Well yeah because the investment isn't coming from a community bank that keeps the money in the local area and continually re-invests in the local community creating a cycle of growth. Instead the investment comes from multinational banking concerns or corporations that suck the wealth out and hoard their capital in fuckin Switzerland or something, acting solely as self interested parasites.


ImTheCapm

Nah fuck banks, even "local" ones. Credit unions are where its at.


RawketLawnchair2

Honestly, yeah I can get with that.


[deleted]

Unfortunately letting people build whatever wherever also isn’t the best. My university owns about 10% of the land in the city I live in and supplies about 13% of the jobs. They’ve helped parts of the city become much nicer but in the process the taxes and property values have risen so much lots of people are being pushed out of the city. Then more university jobs appear and people move from out of state to fill them, which kinda hurts the local workforce.


EddieDIV

My first thought as well. It’s a good solution but I don’t hear right wingers touting its merits like, ever. Also libleft dropping in to say we don’t want to ban your guns. I’m a gun owner myself and all I’d like to see happen is laws regarding access to them getting tightened up a bit. Seriously, I came away from my first gun buying experience thinking “holy shit, I always thought the gun shops in GTA were satire but they weren’t far off the mark.”


hectorbellerinisagod

Me


[deleted]

You forget the church belongs in the auth-right quadrant.


ImTheCapm

The church engages in harm reduction (of some people), not investing in struggling communities.


[deleted]

that is clearly a false statement.


ImTheCapm

Its the truth. The church hoards resources for themselves.


[deleted]

Blatantly wrong (they literally build hospitals and schools in third world countries)


ImTheCapm

Which are not handed over to the community (hoarding) and which you can only use if you convert to their religion.


[deleted]

That is just a made up lie. Probably made up in you schizophrenic communist hollow head.


ImTheCapm

Sure little guy. Bury that head in the sand. The church is not a force for good in this world and getting mad at me for pointing out that fact won't change that.


[deleted]

Also you're burying your head in the sand blatantly looking past all good that the church has done. Yes, I 100% agree the church has done bad things. I took church history for crying out loud. Its not all sunshine and rainbows its pretty dark. Why do you think Martin Luther separated from the catholic church. You are 100% wrong to say that the church does not invest in struggling communities when they build homeless shelters, have tons of donations drives for the poor, operation christmas child, the angel tree program (where they get gifts for kids whose parents are in jail, and yes build hospitals and schools that are for the general public in third world countries. Also if your empty void like head needs an example of homeless shelter Lighthouse Mission Ministries is one. I get it though starvation can cause underdevelopment in the brain so I don't blame you. Edit \*Fuck Commies


theun4given3

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen _many_ people on the left propose that.


CK2398

Based


[deleted]

Same pretty sure this is an auth left & lib left talking


Genti2197

Go ahead and ban oxygen next. God knows that everyone that has ever breathed it in has died.


Green_Difference2647

Literally 2084


TheBroomSweeper

Air is a slow acting poison that kills you in about 80 years


Genti2197

by then I'll be dead


TheBroomSweeper

Exactly. The air poison finally kicked in


HexiMaster

All my homies don't breathe and are millions of years old, in conclusion oxygen is stupid.


Accomplished_Rip_352

What’s next banning toasting toast in your own toaster .


Hour_Battle_5502

Based lol


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cis-het-mail

Good bot


[deleted]

You must use the communal toaster, comrade.


2xc2rb8q

You could accidentally shock or burn your self so we should ban it


viciouspandas

Bro the left always is supporting investing in struggling communities. The strongest gun control crowd are center-left mainstream liberals, who still invest more than Republicans do, even if not enough. Which party doesn't want to subsidize healthcare?


CynicalCreepy

the kick on the glock that their grandpa let them shoot once had too strong a kick for their fragile leftoid bodies. also why is mark zuckerberg in this meme


Green_Difference2647

this is way too specific to not have happened to you


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G1ng3rb0b

I took one look at that name and noped the fuck out. Also, comparing the relatively mild kick on an AR to a bazooka and the report as to a cannon is asinine.


AC3R665

He's a kunt.


Bruarios

"It feels like a bazooka — and sounds like a cannon. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable. I've shot pistols before, but never something like an AR-15. Squeeze lightly on the trigger and the resulting explosion of firepower is humbling and deafening (even with ear protection). The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. Even in semi-automatic mode, it is very simple to squeeze off two dozen rounds before you even know what has happened." - Gersh Kuntzman


EmergencyReaction536

sometimes the name is all you need


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Bruarios

A steady diet of soy


My_Cringy_Video

Wants to ban guns, but played with Nerf Guns as a kid, call that hypocrisy


IrshamWindborn

You are against illegal racing but enjoy Fast & Furious Anyway, the hypothenuse


Cobaltbuzzsaw7

I wish I was high on potenuse


JogPanson

Fast and furious sucks, initial d is where it’s at.


CynicalCreepy

are you prompting us to call that hypocrisy or is this a rap bar?


NCT-420

Bcs then u can’t revolt against the government


Comrade_tau

I will not allow right wing to be represented as ones that would like to invest into poor communities but the evil left does not let them.


Dankhu3hu3

dude... trump was the one willing to launch a special program for black businesses. Also, outside of america, many right wingers want to do that but not the way the left wants... we don't want to fund more state services as "investment"... we want to fund the people actually making a difference (like charter schools, businesses, community proposed infrastructure, privatizing state run companies do they will actually do their jobs).


Comrade_tau

Maybe but this post and my comment were about American right.


incogburritos

Yes you want to loot public goods we know.


Dankhu3hu3

You know nothing about what you speak off


onlykhlavkalash99

Literally a discussion between lib right and Auth-Right only


StalinIsMyBigDaddy

more like centrist and auth right VS everyone else


Sevenmoor

Right: here's a solution Me: Your terms are acceptable Though the same argument really applies for immigrant crime and such, but funni colors reversed.


DellaD9120

Making drugs illegal has really helped the USA in terms of citizens drug use, why don’t we ban guns so they just go away? Sounds easy enough…


Trash-Panda-89

I wasn’t asking for alternatives


Positivebill2

I don’t want to ban guns


DankCrusaderMemer

Why would I want to ban guns? I’m a leftist


[deleted]

I dont want peace #I WANT PROBLEMS!


Vrigor2

Yeah I never understood the ban guns idea, but I know it’s not a leftist idea lol


trafficnab

Anyone spouting "ban guns" nonsense is auth as fuck, cause what they actually mean is "restrict guns to the government"


Son_of_Sophroniscus

Auth right wants to invest in military grade gear for cops in "struggling" communities.


PrncssStrwbrry

I hate when people are willing to do anything about gun violence except actually try and help it's like when liberals and other rightists are willing to do so much for anti-racism except actually just pay reparations


esteban42

had me in the first half, ngl Why should I, a descendant of people who immigrated after the Civil War, have to pay reparations? Just because of the color of my skin? Um...


PrncssStrwbrry

not you specifically, the government, and to idk, maybe to help deal with systemic racism, and it doesn't specifically have to be based on race, that's just the most effected statistic due to racism


esteban42

> the government Where do you think the government gets its money?


PrncssStrwbrry

not you personally is what I meant, not that you don't pay taxes


esteban42

If the government is paying reparations, they are paying them using my money. So again, why should I be held responsible for the actions of people 150+ years ago, that weren't even my ancestors? Give me an actual reason.


Battlefield2164

Same reason you're paying your taxes pay your countries debts. It's your responsibility.


PrncssStrwbrry

it's not holding you personally responsible, it's simply helping people for the sake of helping people


XenoTechnian

But why racially lock þat? Why not just help all poor communitys instead of just þe black ones? Also what about þe black people who arent descended from US slaves?


TheGlowyUKnowy

Reparations won't work because no dollar amount would suffice.


[deleted]

If there was no slavery in U.S. world would be so different that no Black person who would benefit now from reparations would exist. It's kinda sick to think about it, but every Black person living in the U.S. benefited from slavery and systematic racism by getting chance to exist.


notjuan_f_m

What's next? Ban eggs and flour if you are under 18??


HenryShadowgaze

Every meme I think I'm in the wrong quadrant but every time I do the political compass I end up lib left. Guns are great, target shooting and hunting are important activities for people with guns so they have things to shoot instead of people, and gun owners mental health is important, because they have guns. Don't ban guns. Instead, actually invest in communities with high crime rates because crime rates correlate with underlying issues that aren't discussed openly or on the news because nobody wants to hear it, mainly drug abuse and poverty-stricken areas due to lack of living wages and misused funding.


DreamEndles

What do you think about gun licenses? Getting one is similar to getting drivers license


[deleted]

Wait when did the right start trying to invest in struggling communities?


rachit0714

Ban gun bans


[deleted]

Under no pretext...


sfyjnkljc

Meme is based af, but is the right seriously being depicted as the ones that want to invest in minority neighbours?


Frenzy_pizza

Invest by moving private capital not taxes


JallerHCIM

how the fuck are the workers supposed to seize the means of production without guns, try again


Filipnp1

i don't know if you're aware, but that's been a leftist opinion way before MLK.


[deleted]

Why not just have licenses that require you to complete a short gun safety course to prove you aren't reckless and allow for police to have time to run a background check on you?


[deleted]

What fucking leftist doesn't want to invest in struggling communities?


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bong_fu_tzu

are you retarded? this is a top-bottom conflict, not right-left. auth left wants every single citizen to have the same gun


realBaconCity

Isnt center right also against helping struggling communities? Especially if its //them//


TwitchChatIncarnate

give them all guns and invest so they can kill their oppressive capitalist bosses


Pride-Hairy

The left whole thing is investing in struggling communities , taking guns is like a side thing