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Jan 25, 2023Liked by Handwaving Freakoutery

Nuking cities to reduce the murder rate seems like a modest proposal.

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Jan 25, 2023·edited Jan 25, 2023Liked by Handwaving Freakoutery

I used to say in 2015 if Hillary wins she'll be the first president to drone bomb American citizens on American soil.

Now try imagining the woke brigade administering a CBDC. They will try to eliminate guns be eliminating the purchase of anything relating to the gun. Now imagine a woke military backstopping a woke CBDC.

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Jan 25, 2023·edited Jan 25, 2023Liked by Handwaving Freakoutery

The reason there wasn't widespread Ukrainian rifle ownership prior to the war is they would have been turned on the government generations ago.

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Jan 25, 2023Liked by Handwaving Freakoutery

What do you say to the low information grifters who claim that those genocides were for the "greater good"? I have actually come across this argument on the collapse reddit.

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Jan 25, 2023Liked by Handwaving Freakoutery

looks like a typo in the legend of the y axis of chart #1 (76 deaths per capita...). Ha. Maybe deaths per 100,000? deaths per million?

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Statistic analysis of defensive gun use suggests that somewhere between 1-2 million lives are saved every year by DGU, suggesting that eliminating gun ownership would be a genocide in itself. We'd "save" at best 12,000 lives at the expense of a million or two.

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This does point out that big cities are dying away because of gun restrictions and violence from criminal gun use. Chicago may become the next Detroit as people leave. Then perhaps Baltimore. The poorest among us constantly victimized because they can't afford to move out. Won't need to nuke them, they will just collapse. The EU sadly is too dense to appreciate the decline of cities.

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back in the days i actually used reddit, the argument was continually made by the little children that we should use the military against our neighbors who don’t see eye to eye on the ‘accepted’ policies. maybe it hits them that they’re one in the same as us in the eyes of the government after it’s too late, or maybe they cheer their own deaths as long as they know their ‘alt-right’ fox watching neighbors are also going up in a mushroom cloud.

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Jan 25, 2023·edited Feb 4, 2023

I'm completely shocked that the antis would lie to achieve their goals. Also, yesterday was my zeroth birthday!

Edited: "lie" not "like". Duck you, autocarrot.

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All Americans do not live in a war zone - that's ridiculous. People who compare absolute numbers instead of rates should stop trying to think without assistance.

But some Americans do live in a war zone. For example, black New Orleanian men between the ages of 15 - 24. By a recent estimate, 1 in 8 will show up at University Medical Center with a gunshot wound during that span of their lives. All the trauma, fear, and 20,000 deaths that Murray is talking about? That is disproportionately borne by a marginalized few.

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If we want to go by the recent California shootings, clearly we should be outlawing geriatric Asians. No shooter, no victims, no crime, no problem. @GavinNewsom!

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