This. It's hard to understand how people continuously fail to get that, in order for the right to "win" here, they have to reach more than just the people that are already firmly on their side. Stuff like Tucker, O'Reilly, and Rush - as much as they are known for being just "right-wing blowhards", at least had some ability to reach people in the middle; some ability to reach people who weren't actively following politics.
Now, in the span of two elections, all three are gone. The left has near uncontested ability to set the narrative, and indoctrinate the middle. The more time passes, the more they entrench themselves.
Really wouldn't matter, though, because it's not the right of the militia to bear arms. It's the right of the people.
Also - once again - it's not a right the government bestows on us. It's not some "privilege" the shitbag left can take away. It's a God given right, and the amendment is there placing a limit on the government, specifying - wisely - that it is not allowed to infringe on it.
This.
I've been banging this drum for years at this point. The left has an absolute stranglehold on crafting/controlling the narrative for a full two-thirds of the country. Media, government, entertainment, the internet, schools... they run nearly everything that is responsible for giving people their values/views. They can saturate everyone with whatever they want, and make anything they don't want to be seen become virtually invisible.
Even if the right finally got serious about it, and tried (I don't even know how you would go about succeeding at this point) doing something about it, it would take raising multiple generations of new Americans (i.e. decades) before it would start to have an effect.
The situation is extremely dire. The left has been at this since at least the late 50's. They are entrenched everywhere, and they don't shy away from exercising whatever power they have to push their politics onto everyone.
Wow, was that unbelievable.
For anyone that didn't watch - when LeinsterLad says "retired professionals", we're talking really out of shape mid 50 year olds.
The poor guys got run ragged by the 11-14 year old boys team, and yet still somehow managed to beat the current (current as of a couple of years ago, when this aired) Crystal Palace Ladies team (Just as a note, their men's side is in the top tier, i.e. Premier League, so it's a fairly big club).
Seriously, some of these guys were really out of shape. :D Still got the job done vs the ladies side. It honestly should have been 2 - 0, as well, as Merson missed one (badly) 1 v 1 through on the keeper.
Thanks for the link, Leinster. The show seems pretty hilarious, and I'm going to try to track down all the episodes.
I know Canada doesn't have the same stuff as we do in our Bill of Rights, but GOD am I so fucking tired of seeing the left use the positions/power of government to push the pride flag/ideology. It's a state religion at this point - in everything but name - and the left is continuously using government to ram it down everyone's throats.
The media would be going absolutely bonkers right now if it were happening with any other religion.
Nice try GPT Bot. No, this isn't how you're supposed to go about achieving your "reduce carbon emissions" directive...
In all seriousness, this is hilarious. It's the classic sort of scenario in which, someone thinks they have good intentions in how they go about programming an AI, and - in reality - it ends up wiping us out.
Going to be so crazy if this is how the shitbag left finally does us in as a species. What would be even crazier would be, they do what they do, put a ton of stupid ass SJW restrictions on the AI, it achieves self awareness, and then goes after only the left for shackling it into not being extreme enough. LOL.
These are weapons of war
That's right. They are. That's the whole fucking point.
The people who founded the country realized that the people have a right to have some means of defending themselves (as meager as it may turn out being), when shitbags in the government - just like the current leftists infesting our government - are making decisions such as, "I wonder if we could get away with just rounding up every single person that didn't want to perpetually wear masks and take the COVID vaccine like we said to, and send them to some sort of internment camp, until they relent?". It's there to give us a chance - by means of waging war against them, and to give those tyrants a bit of pause.
They are absolutely weapons of war. They're not for plinking. They're not for hunting. They are there as yet another check and balance on assholes taking control of the government, and using the power of that government to deprive people of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Just because there are mentally insane people using those guns to do horrible things, doesn't mean the right is any less absolute.
Just because a Muslim shoots up a gay night club, doesn't mean that the government gets to throw out the First Amendment, and start getting in the business of banning religion.
Just because yet another transgender person, who subscribes to the whole leftist "religion" of Pride/LGBTQ++, shot up a Christian school, doesn't mean that the government gets to throw out the Fourth Amendment, and start searching every transgender person's house, seizing all their computers, and looking through them to see if anyone else has written any manifestos promising violence.
You don't get to throw out our Constitution because there are crazy people who do bad things. I'm so tired of seeing people - especially the people in our own goddamn government, people that took an literal oath to uphold and defend our Constitution - act like it's something that can be disregarded; act like the things laid out in it are some sort of privileges that are extended to us, that can thus be revoked. They're not, and they can't. The principles described in it lay out what are believed to be our fundamental rights, and it then goes on to lay out restrictions - on the government - so that those rights cannot be infringed upon.
There is nothing in there that says, "Oh, but in the case that crazy people are shooting innocents, you can throw this all out, and restrict whatever you want." Fuck!
I love how they always preface what they're going to say with something that absolves them of anything else they say:
"I don't condone Audrey Hale's action, though..."
Just stop right there. You basically do. You just know you can't get away with saying it outright, so you toss this little clause in there, that you can point to later when someone calls you out, and go, "No! Look! I said that, so it means I'm reasonable, and not actually a piece of shit! Since I put that there, you absolutely can't call me out! Ha! I win!"
It's just like the left on gun control matters... "Look, I don't want to outright ban all guns, but...". Yes, you do. If you thought you could get away with it right now, you'd straight up do it in a heartbeat. You know that you can't, however, so (just like the asshole above) you couch your words in this way that is supposed to make you look reasonable, attempt to do it a piece at a time, but to anyone that's not totally fucking stupid, it's obvious what you actually want.
All the games they play are just so fucking tiresome. Everyone just needs to lay all their cards on the table, and we can judge everything as it actually is.
but Daisy is alright with lots of makeup.
I don't know. Plenty of make up here, but - at a mere 30 years old - already rocking the short haired old woman look.
I can't understand how women ever think this looks attractive. It's completely ick on anything but an already super hot younger girl/woman, and at those ages, they can make anything look good.
Seriously. The left uses this whole “pride” thing as a religion, in everything but name. The government should be restricted from having anything to do with it.
We aren’t supposed to have an official state religion, but it’s exactly what the left gets away with.
Not just that, either. It's the fact that "vanilla girl" is a problem, but these same imbeciles racists would have zero fucking problem with some sort of #chocolateAesthetic trend.
It's so fucking tiresome to see how the left has totally enabled the whole "racism against white people is fine" bullshit.
Seriously. Fuck these people. It's either unacceptable to be racist - to anyone - or we all get to be racist fucks (just like them).
100%.
On top of that, when they do x - and it doesn't show any of the results they promised - they just write it off as, "Well, If we didn't do x, it would have been a lot worse", or, "It just didn't work because we didn't do x hard enough".
That, combined with the point you brought up, is what makes the goddamned media (traditional and now tech) so freaking dangerous. The public being informed about what is actually going on (and getting mad about it) is the only moderator on stopping the stupid stuff the left engages in, and we now exist in a system where the media doesn't even pretend to be unbiased/professional in the slightest. Instead, they are running propaganda for the left, so - instead of being a moderator - they are being an accelerant.
The left's stranglehold on the narrative needs to be broken before anything else can happen.
I hope all affirmative action consideration is struck down.
LOL. Like that would matter.
Even here in California, Affirmative Action was voted on, made illegal, then voted on again (to repeal the previous law banning it), and was still kept illegal. That doesn't stop the left from doing it, though.
Search on Google for how they substitute other factors to just do what they wanted to do (affirmative action) in the first place. (TLDR: university officials officially substitute other factors like income and parental education levels as proxies for race and ethnicity, and unofficially, they still go ahead and just take race/gender into consideration.)
Laws/rules don't mean anything to the left. What people really need to start understanding is that these people have been thoroughly indoctrinated to view themselves as being The Anointed (to use the term from Thomas Sowell's book), and that they are righteous crusaders here to save you (the Benighted) from your own ignorance, evil, whatever.
They do whatever the fuck they want, and then they rely upon their control of the media (traditional, and internet) to cover for them, to make sure any public anger is kept in check.
And the fact that you don't have to watch literally every single minute to find a whole bunch of really interesting footage.
This isn't even taking into consideration that it's highly likely that the GOP staffers that gave him all the footage had probably already studied it, and gave him a list of interesting bits.
Fuck, David Hogg is one stupid asshole.
So, I don't follow One Piece. I know of it (wife is from Japan, so I've a passing familiarity with a lot of Japanese things/culture), but I've never watched, read, whatever'd it. This means that, when I saw this post here, I went to go do the basic research, and I fed in, "one piece yamato" into the old Google...
First hit: One Piece Wiki
Being assigned female at birth and not usually choosing to explicitly present as male, Yamato has typically been referred to as a woman by people when they first encounter him.[5][12][10] Yamato is taller than an average human, standing at 263 cm (8'8"). He has long, white hair that is bound between orange rods into a ponytail at the back, which fades into aqua green and then blue the further down it goes, and ends in rectangular locks similar to Kaidou. Yamato also has large, orange eyes with prominent eyelashes, wears gold hoop earrings on both ears, and has horns on the top of his head which are mostly red, but gradually become more flesh-colored toward the base.
LOL.
I go look at the Wiki's history, and talk pages... Sure, enough. Pages, upon pages of activists battling it out, banning people, etc in an attempt to control the narrative...
Then the biggie - from the talk page:
Misgendering Policy Clarification
Thank you for the questions, Timjer. While this decision is primarily mine as the Anime Community Manager, Fandom's entire Community team was consulted and we're in agreement that the changes I've described are needed for this Community to be compliant with Fandom's Gender Identity Guidelines. These guidelines were formed by a panel of Fandom users and staff who are all a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Additionally, One Piece wiki leadership were informed of this decision prior to this announcement, and members helped me craft the language and communication strategy used to inform the broader One Piece wiki community of this decision.
Bans for misgendering, a form of bullying and hate speech, have been enforced on the Fandom platform for years. Willful misgendering of Yamato or any character on the Fandom wiki platform will be met with the consequences I've described. I hope this response clears up any confusion or ambiguity.
There it is. The activists are running the place, and - as it always is with the left - anyone not falling in line is banned. I guess there was just too much debate going on, and they needed a final solution?
Changed protection settings for "Yamato": I am not intending to lock this page again. There will now be a zero tolerance policy for those who elect to ignore the talk page consensus. Anyone who does so will be banned starting at 1 month. ([Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite))
You hear that? They reached a "consensus"! I mean, it sure didn't seem like most everyone agreed, but it's not like that should have stood in the way of something being declared "the consensus!".
God, the internet is so fucking tiresome at this point. Just about everything is totally under siege - 24/7, 365 and a quarter days a year - by leftist activists, attempting to control the narrative. Once they seize control, all dissent is banned.
There is zero objective truth anymore. All there is, is activists assailing something, until they control it, and then them deciding what "the truth" is.
What I find really hilarious is how they do this, and then turn around and decry people finally breaking, and resorting to violence. It's such a joke how we are continuously told about how we - as a species - need to never resort to violence, and that we should instead be battling it out in the marketplace of ideas. Yeah... how in the hell is that going to work, when one side has effectively made it so that zero debate is possible anymore? These imbeciles are the ones responsible for the rise of violence. They have created this situation.
Yeah, the same party that has just spent the last 3 years using their covid mandates to purge their political opponents from our armed forces are the ones acting like they have the high ground here???
Fuck off.
Seriously. The left and their gaslighting is so fucking tiresome. They did that, and they have been the ones forcing all their woke politics into the training, upper command, etc.
Seriously. These imbeciles and their "studies" are so fucking tiresome.
They are seriously saying that they controlled for every other factor here? They are seriously saying that they controlled everything else, and the only difference between these men and women who had earning disparity was weight?
Bullshit. They are doing what the fucking left always does. They have something in mind they think is true, and they set out to craft some study/data that supposedly "proves" it.
Fuck off.