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RisksRewardsRelics t1_j1t9sbb wrote

Reply to comment by lightningttt in Failed meme but NH placement is precious by WoobieBee

Yeah, it sorta was.

The majority of leftists in the US don’t consider the Dems to be leftist at all (rightfully so). They certainly aren’t registered as one. Same can be said for the sovereign citizen crowd and the Republican Party.

Since you brought up Trump and Biden, both of them are doing the bidding of their campaign donors, just like every other elected official at the federal level. Both signed gun control legislation, Trump with the bump stock ban and Biden with more extensive background checks.

Left/Right is not the same as Democrat/Republican. People with ideals further from center tend to not be affiliated with either party.

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RisksRewardsRelics t1_j1t44ey wrote

Reply to comment by sje46 in Failed meme but NH placement is precious by WoobieBee

Civil war would cause a breakdown in the supply and distribution chain that everyone relies on. Both sides would suffer in that regard.

The right may own more guns, but those stats don’t take into consideration how many guns are being stockpiled by individuals.

From all of the right wing militia training videos I’ve seen, their focus seems to be on intimidation, rather than gaining any sort of tactical advantage. The left may be unorganized by comparison (and they absolutely are), but they generally tend to be better prepared with a broader skill set as individuals. Take a look at the American Revolution… the minutemen were farmers, cobblers and merchants. They didn’t train together very much and they were scattered about the countryside. They still managed to defeat the richest and most organized imperialist army on the planet.

One other thing you need to consider is that those threatening civil war are a small percentage of far-right extremists. If they start battling with the population and attacking critical infrastructure, it’s not going to be only leftists fighting back, they’ll likely also be battling against less extreme right-leaning individuals. They will be quickly outnumbered by people who they initially believe share their ideology.

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RisksRewardsRelics t1_j1szppk wrote

Reply to comment by AmazingThinkCricket in Failed meme but NH placement is precious by WoobieBee

I see the American education system and corporate media have failed you as they has so many others.

The Dems are capitalist; this alone puts them in the right wing of the political spectrum. Granted they are generally not quite as far to the right as Republicans, but the difference is much smaller than what their rhetoric suggests. Both are also on the authoritarian end of the scale, rather than the libertarian end. Again, Democrats are more moderate here than Republicans, but only slightly. They have actively resisted any attempt to shift the party left.

Genuinely left-wing political views have almost no presence in mainstream American politics. Bernie Sanders is the exception that proves the rule, and even he is, at best, center-left.

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RisksRewardsRelics t1_j1svodb wrote

Reply to comment by PM_DOLPHIN_PICS in Failed meme but NH placement is precious by WoobieBee

> But, nobody I know who leans left and owns an AR ever wants to use it for its purpose. At all. It’s always something they own as a form of insurance against the bad things that are creeping closer and closer to us.

I’d say that’s a fair assessment. We’re not the ones marching out with our rifles to intimidate and harass others. This is what gives the perception that leftists are unarmed. Though, some more recent events have seen leftists displaying arms as a sign that they won’t be intimidated.

There’s a difference between being a idealist (“guns are bad, let’s get rid of them”) and being an realist (“bad people won’t get rid of their guns, I’d better be prepared if shit hits the fan.”)

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RisksRewardsRelics t1_j1sgqut wrote

Reply to comment by seanwalter123 in Failed meme but NH placement is precious by WoobieBee

Only as of recently. VT literally had no laws restricting firearms until 2018, when they passed mag restrictions, background checks and red flag. They were the last state to hold the title of zero gun control. They're still a constitutional carry state and they don't even have a permitting system in place.

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RisksRewardsRelics t1_j1rkw5v wrote

Reply to comment by Tyrannus_ignus in Failed meme but NH placement is precious by WoobieBee

I’ve lived in several states and the only real diehard anti-gun people I’ve met are moderate democrats. Most people I know with actual leftist views support 2A and agree that banning guns does little to solve the underlying problem of gun violence.

It’s a real shame we’ve chosen to let two parties speak for the entire populace.

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RisksRewardsRelics t1_j1q3z1i wrote

Reply to comment by kathryn13 in Lost dog in the Manchester New Hampshire area by mchalli103072

I’m part of the local disc golf community and we’ve all been trying to help locate this dog too. The owner is a friend of a friend. If a course regular took it we would have known about it months ago. It could have been someone from out of state, but pointing fingers at a disc golfer specifically is silly when the area is a large residential neighborhood and in close proximity to very busy streets.

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RisksRewardsRelics t1_j1kt753 wrote

Reply to Cryptic Encounters? by Gree-Grump

I don’t think the Wood Devils have been spotted much in the last 40 or so years.

There’s always Pukwudgies too. Sightings go back to the pre-colonial days.

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