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    Are gun designs open source? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I’ve also seen his temper in his videos plus adding what he said in this video, I am convinced the guy should not be allowed to own a damm BBGun. But he’s lucky he doesnt live in a “communist state”. Yo what a shitshow.

    You can see with these conservative white men when they clearly perceive a threatening universe everywhere they look based on their ideology. It is what directly leads to their irrational bouts of anger and violence, and causes things like....

    "A 14-year-old African-American boy stopped to ask for directions to school in a Detroit suburb but was shot at instead, according to prosecutors.....I got to the house and I knocked on the lady's door. Then she started yelling at me and she was like, 'Why are you trying to break into my house?' " Walker told local station WJBK. "And I was trying to explain to her that I was trying to get directions to Rochester High. And she kept yelling at me. The guy came downstairs, and then he grabbed the gun, and I saw it and started to run. And that's when I heard the gunshot," he told the station.

    the same old story over and over again

    Rightwing white men afraid of the world and thus ready to project anger and violence at the slightest confirmation of whatever dumb bullshit they believe in isn't a cute look for any community, which is probably why these people tend to feel so isolated in the first place...

    [–] HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Exactly. In a way there IS a "threat" for them, that they will not be anymore at the top of the pyramid, they see it as the "woke, communist, liberals" or whatever trying to subdue them, ironically what they want is to be able to further subdue everyone else.

    Also ironic and sad: poor (poor as in not rich) white men were never at the top, they were just as exploited as the rest, the are just made belive they weren't. Of course they enjoy some extra perks, mostly judicial, but they have more in common with a poor black guy than with a millioner and nothing with a billioner

    What a world we have. But at the very least is never dull.

    [–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    "But what about my illegally obtained riches and privileges? My family enslaved people for hundreds of years, I'm nobility, and you're just going to come to my home and take what is not yours? What about MY rights? Don't rock the boat, keep everything the way it's always been, meaning that I can enjoy royal privileges at the expense of other people's suffering, famine, violence, and death. Or are you a filthy COMMUNIST?!"

    [–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    It's funny. I work with a bunch of righteimg guys a an energy cooperative which is pretty much light communism as it is collectively owned by the consumers without the ability for capital accumulation.

    [–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I've found some right wingers that are like that; on everyday practical terms they like all that sharing and stuff, but somehow don't connect it to the high-minded political ideals they like to talk about, Like two different topics to them.

    [–] Soggy@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

    They like sharing with the right kind of people.