Norah (pup/it/she)

You’re talking about Netanyahu, right? Right??

You say that like Trump’s response to the pandemic wasn’t this already.

Oh this is Starfish Island??

Then there’s no point to any of these hypotheticals, is there??

Yes, which is why in the other comment chain we were talking about the right moment. Tip your hand too soon and you’re just getting purged.

Trump has been getting rid of higher ups, they aren’t protected.

Yeah, exactly this.

I don’t disagree with any of this, but it’s kind of precisely why coming out and saying what teawrecks wants them to say before that right moment is foolhardy at best imo.

My fear is that it would make it easier, by singling out who needs to be purged.

Look back to desegregation around race. There were many, many people that were uncomfortable. But today we consider it a positive assertion of people’s rights. How much longer would you have trans women wait? Someone is always going to be offended.

While that would be nice, this would potentially make Trump try to purge “non-loyal” officers even harder.

You’re right that it sucks, but it’s unlikely that contributions like your own would even come close to matching their congressional funding.

Countries who make their citizens second guess calling an ambulance with the threat of crippling debt aren’t good countries.

Both can be true. This is also why sane places have laws preventing paramedics from reporting drug use to the police.

Despite all that other stuff, the fact that they’re in the US and therefore calling for an ambulance would cost in the thousands probably had more bearing on the situation than them being terrible parents. I wonder how many small children have died due to preventable disease or injury with good, yet financially poor, parents who hesitated to call an ambulance.

By doing what? You said something that didn’t make sense, and I questioned it.

But if you wanted to get into the whole anti-2nd amendment stuff, well, I’m glad we have stricter laws here. I never had to fear dying from a shooting in high school, I never had to go through metal detectors, or deal with cops on campus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are you calling me one? I’m an Australian socalist/greens voter 😂

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As an Australian, did you want to maybe speak for yourself there mate? We haven’t experienced any major regressions of progressive policies or rights, and just saw our right wing of government shrink to a record low when they tried to import Trump’s culture war schtick. Historically our right wing has actually been fairly moderate. It was a right-wing government that instituted aggressive gun control laws in the 1990s, and a right-wing government that (for better or worse) was in power when same-sex marriage was legalised in the 2010s.

If anything, Australia is literally the poster child for “How Not to Inch Towards Fascism” that other countries should aspire too.

You do realise that automatic rifle ownership by civilians is incredibly illegal in the US, right? And has been for almost 100 years… An AR-15 is not an automatic rifle.