Whoosh

Again, only if you assume “What now?” is a rhetorical question.

Why not say, “Fuck this, I’m writing to my congress person and taking to the streets again with everyone who I can possibly convince.”

Because that requires organization.

No one is promoting defeatism, I think you might have a habit of assuming questions are rhetorical when they aren’t.

The question is that of organization. Just saying to organize isn’t an answer. How do you organize millions of people?

How though? You think people aren’t already calling, emailing, literally writing letters? How do we make them?

That’s not what I’m saying at all. I think you’ve lost the context here. Let me summarize the exchange:

“Who is going to hold him accountable when Congress and the courts won’t?”

“The people should rise up”

“How?”

“By using the courts and Congress”

This is where I’m confused. I’m not saying those aren’t things we should do, but this was explicitly a question about what to do when those methods are failing.

What does any of that have to do with the issues in question? How does suing help when he ignores the courts? How does pestering your congressperson help if they don’t, or can’t, do anything?

This kind of “Just rise up!” thinking downplays the very real hurdles to effective mass organization. We need specific, scheduled actions with points of contact and well-defined scopes.

Sure. How exactly do you propose to “rise up”?

No actually, pretty small house and lot. I just like to be prepared and that load out was the consensus among my gun-knowledge friends for general cover-your-bases utility.

The AR-15 was the first one I got, the others were just in case. It seems like it’s pretty much accepted as one of the best options out there if you can only have one gun. It’s an extremely well-supported system with lots of options for customization to fit particular niches. Based on my research, I would recommend it. Not only is it pretty flexible, but it looks imposing as an open carry if that’s your use case.

I went with a Ruger 556 because it reviewed well as a fantastic budget option and I found a good deal on a used one, but Palmetto State Armory has a well-reviewed option for a tad cheaper.

At least they’re pivoting instead of just doing both.

Yup, I was pretty anti gun until about 6 months ago. Now I have three (pistol, AR-15, shotgun).

The gift being that he was old and white with a proven political track record.

Politics isn’t just about policy, you have to appeal to enough voters to get elected if you want to implement those policies. Unfortunately, right now in the US, “kids deserve food” is a wild progressive idea.

Garage?

Can we? I’m not saying there aren’t less sleazy options, there absolutely are. But winning isn’t just about being the best candidate, honestly that barely has anything to do with it. Winning is much more about popularity and rhetoric.

Sure, if you’re not one of the victims of accelerationism and don’t care what happens to them while we accelerate.

Sure, but it’s a multiple choice question and, right now, there are only two possible options. If both options are bad, the best use of your vote is choosing the less bad one.

Stop fucking acting like newsom has already won the primary for starters.

Did you respond to the wrong message? They never did that.

That’s why we don’t see titles asking that.

It’s not what we want to hear though.

We gotta stop nitpicking when individual, calculated political responses for the general public aren’t as radical as we aspire to be. Leftists need to learn to stop looking gift horses in the mouth and take the W.

Sport shooting looks like it could be a valid workaround, plus actually sport shooting is great training. Things are bad here but I can’t say I envy Germany right now.

Thanks. To be fair, aside from the pacifism if you look at my other interests and hobbies I should be a gun guy, so it’s been a begrudgingly pleasant transition.