Because mass surveillance is bad? I don’t want my printer to send everything I print to private companies

I am ok with someone not being able to print out a gun and then blow people away with it.
And if mass surveillance bothers you, then you should get rid of your cell phone.
Also, private companies already have every bit of information about you. How do you think Google and Facebook and Twitter make their money?

Even if you are somehow ok with the surveillance, there are still issues with copywrite. I’m pretty sure it would be pretty easy for some large company to seal ideas or to prevent you from making replacement parts for stuff that you bought and paid for

Yeah but not everything I leagally buy and pay for can be used to murder people. For example, if I print out a battery cover for my remote control I then cannot go to a hotel room in Las Vegas and massacre 50 people at a country music festival with it.

Oh, I thought this was age verification to buy a firearm. But you mean age verification laws for online pornography.
Yeah fuck that shit.

How does it hurt the general public, exactly? By not letting them shoot each other?

What’s wrong with age verification laws, exactly?

Yeah but a right wing incel maniac trying to get a gun to go blow away a high school isn’t going to know how to mill his own gun. He might download one and use his father’s 3D printer to make one.

Probably zero.
I just like the idea of there being less guns on the street.
I also like the idea of access to guns being highly regulated.

Well, no. It’ll create a whole new class of crimes.

Good, means less lunatics waving around guns. No objection here.
To the people bitching, it’s a moot point when you can buy a gun at virtually every wallmart in the country.

I mean a court decision may not matter much to a victim of ICE, yes. Fighting in the courts is one avenue of attack.
But what I mean by this, is that every executive order that Trump has done so far to try and steal the election has been overturned. Executive oder 14248 (The one which attempted to force ID for voting) has been permanently blocked into taking effect. His other executive order 14399 (which tried to stop mail in voting) has also been blocked nationwide. Even if these somehow are fast-tracked to the Supreme court and the assholes rule in favor of Trump, the midterms are less than three months away, there’s no way for them to be implemented in time. Essentially his attempt to take over the elections through executive order has been thwarted.

Now, will he do what you predict, and send his goons to sieze ballots, arrest democrats, and just do a full on coup d’état? Well possibly (hopefully not.) But seeing how Jan.6th went for him I somehow doubt it. But if this (unlikely event imo) were to happen, it wouldn’t be “too late” to fight back, that’s when the real fight begins.

I mean if you’re just asking for violent revolution beforehand to overthrow the fascists and destroy the exploitative system, etc all, regardless of the election, well good luck with that. I don’t think you’ll get any normies on board with overthrowing the government “just because.”

And I say “just because,” as that’s how normie John Q. Taxpayer looks at it. Those are the people you’ll need on board to be successful, and they’re not going to go along with it, even if it’s justified. The crimes and corruption and exploitation this government engages is angers people like you and me, but to regular people all they care about is their job, and how much Gas is per gallon, and if they can pay rent next month. You’ll have zero success motivating these people to approve of your revolution without some kind of an event, Like say Trump doing a coup.

Voting against the fascists, for starters.
Showing up at protests.
Donating your time and money for causes you belive in.
Actually be active, and not an armchair activist.
When the time comes, take to the streets if necessary.

Trump’s executive orders to that effect are essentially meaningless, and are being challenged & knocked down in the courts. But to your scenario, if that were to actually happen that’s when going beyond the law would be justified.

Which party do those progressives belong to, again?

I’ve got some more terrible news for you.

Why would this be terrible for me, specifically? I vote for Democrats.

Sorry, what political party is El-Sayed part of again?
Also, which party did you just get finished telling us not to vote for, again?

El-Sayed is a Democrat, is he not?

And this is why the left always loses.

And as far as I know putin doesnt even pretend to be a communist

Yeah exactly. Modern Russia is not communist or even socialist in the slightest, if anything it’s a straight up kelptocratic dictatorship and proud of it. China is a totalitarian dystopia that executes political prisoners. If anything leftists should be opposing these governments.

wow… well said

You know, if the kid is using state of the art tech to cheat and he still only got a C, then maybe let this one go.
Maybe this kid needs all the help he can get.

Too bad, so sad.
Well, anyway…

The US army showed it’s incompetence and proved not even be half of what the world thought they where

To be fair, the military told Trump this would happen, To defeat Iran would require a ground invasion and way more resources than the public would stand for, but he didn’t listen to them and started a war anyway.
That’s why every president for the last 50 years did not start a war with Iran, not even Bush, who really really wanted to. They actually listened to people who were smarter than them.
But Trump is always the smartest person in the room. I mean if he wasn’t so super duper smart then why is he so rich? Obviously he knows more about Iran than anybody. Trump didn’t give a shit because he’s rich, and he treats being president the same way a rich person treats their employees - give me what I want or you’re fired. So the military does what Trump wants, shit goes south and now Trump is blaming everyone but himself for his own mistake.
Why? Becuase he’s a god damned moron.
Good job Trump.