99% of politicians of either party do not care about gun violence. The Biden admin has failed to appoint an ATF director, a national director of gun violence prevention (which wouldn't require sen conf) and the billions allocated to violence intervention won't happen if BBB fails
The only way this changes is when we electorally force candidates to give a fuck and do something about kids dying in their schools and communities on a daily basis. Through our vote and turning out in primaries.
Biden is objectively doing better on guns than Trump obviously. But that is an extremely low bar. If we want to end gun violence in our lifetimes were going to have to get a lot angrier, demanding, and give politicians basically no choice politically to act on gun violence.
We basically need to replicate the NRA but to do the exact opposite.
Our job is to work toward ending gun violence. Not to make one political party happy. So long as kids are dying every day in their communities and schools I'm going to call out any admin regardless of party.
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Now that finals are over, I thought I would share two of the many declassified CIA documents I had to analyze related to the US backed coup of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz
A budget proposal for a the coup and CIA “Disposal list”
Coincidentally (or perhaps not) the guy who was head of the Guatemala station at the time of the coup would be killed in rural Thailand in a head on collision with a truck only a few years after this.
The training for this coup and several others was conducted out of a site code named “Lincoln” at a small airport in the Miami suburbs. It cover was a daycare center (Yes really)
Anyone else know young people who are American seriously considering leaving the country to start a new life because of the state of politics in the us?
I can tell you this for damn sure. I’m never going to raise kids here if there are still school shootings when I’m older.
Wow I had no idea how many people there are that already have or currently are considering this of all ages.
We could give $100,000 to every one of the 500,000 homeless in the the US. it would cost $50,000,000,000 or approx 7% of the annual amount we spend on our military and we would still be spending more than the next three countries combined.
I’m not a housing policy expert- but you don’t have to be to see how fucked up our priorities are.
I’m not advocating this is how we go about solving homelessness as I’m not an expert but I say it to provide some perspective on why the cost argument is largely bullshit. Especially considering the 7% goes mostly to bullshit PMCs and companies that produce shit equipment.
The proud boys and oath keepers are not independent groups. They’re the armed wing of the Republican Party.
They can’t rely on the military to push their political agenda domestically so they are building their own.
We need to get guns out of politics before the extreme polarization we have erupts into mass violence. On our current path every city will become Kenosha but worse.