>I really don't want the hear talking about how we should use the 2nd amendment from people that can't even quit twitter.
But we also hear that from our fellow Americans all the time.
Every time there's a school shooting or spree killing, we're lectured about that being a price we should be willing to pay for our right to keep and bear arms. Every time gun control comes up, we're told that America's well armed militias are the only thing keeping our government from sliding into tyranny, and that all of our rights are vouchsafed by the second amendment. Americans love to quote Thomas Jefferson on watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. They were willing to revolt over covid restrictions. They were willing to riot and coup over imaginary communists stealing the election. They were willing to turn Portland into a war zone over George Floyd. It's telling that the response to Trump, while not nothing, has been positively timid in comparison.
Don't complain about Europeans turning a mirror onto Americans' hollow rhetoric. Plenty of other countries have been able to deal with corruption and tyranny without a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms and a billion dollar gun industry flooding the country with weapons. It's good that you actually went out and did the work, which is more than most Americans, but you know protests alone don't mean a thing.
Also the vast majority of Twitter users are American, and Americans aren't exactly quitting it either.
>Every time there's a school shooting or spree killing, we're lectured about that being a price we should be willing to pay for our right to keep and bear arms. Every time gun control comes up, we're told that America's well armed militias are the only thing keeping our government from sliding into tyranny, and that all of our rights are vouchsafed by the second amendment.
Americans don't have a representative government, europeans do. Lets be honest, you know in your heart that the vast majority of americans want to stop school shootings, don't you??
Even to this day, a majority of americans are in favor of universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban. Check pew, gallup, anywhere you'd like.
Over 60% of americans when polled, say they want universal healthcare. The difference between american and europe is: over here we don't get what we want, even when the vast majority support it. Over here the cops just shoot us in the face.
>Also the vast majority of Twitter users are American, and Americans aren't exactly quitting it either.
And they should quit too, but right now we're talking about europe.
I also want to circle back and say, portland was not turned into a war zone over george floyd. The protest spanned over a few city blocks, and 99% of the city carried on as normal. You're parroting disgusting propaganda, straight from the mouth of fox news.
Can't you see that we have a media machine that's invested in making the left look violent? Don't believe everything your hear from the american news.
> They were willing to revolt over covid restrictions. They were willing to riot and coup over imaginary communists stealing the election.
Its fitting you bring up these examples as if they weren't proving my point. These events were both largely orchestrated on twitter. Same thing they did in myanmar.
You can help fight against the machine by leaving twitter. Its free. Its easy.
> Lets be honest, you know in your heart that the vast majority of americans want to stop school shootings, don't you??
I don't think we know that, and I think you're looking at your fellow Americans with rose-tinted glasses.
Let's face reality. Two years after one of the worst school shootings in US history, Uvalde county, TX voted for Trump (66.3% vs 33.0% for Harris). Not to mention that Trump won the popular election nationwide.
Nobody put a gun on Americans' heads and forced them to vote for Trump. They did because they wanted to.
I'm not saying the media is infallible, but if you view the situation as evil billionaires and media forcing gun rights, private healthcare, and ICE on oppressed Americans, you're drawing battle lines in a way that doesn't make sense.
But we also hear that from our fellow Americans all the time.
Every time there's a school shooting or spree killing, we're lectured about that being a price we should be willing to pay for our right to keep and bear arms. Every time gun control comes up, we're told that America's well armed militias are the only thing keeping our government from sliding into tyranny, and that all of our rights are vouchsafed by the second amendment. Americans love to quote Thomas Jefferson on watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. They were willing to revolt over covid restrictions. They were willing to riot and coup over imaginary communists stealing the election. They were willing to turn Portland into a war zone over George Floyd. It's telling that the response to Trump, while not nothing, has been positively timid in comparison.
Don't complain about Europeans turning a mirror onto Americans' hollow rhetoric. Plenty of other countries have been able to deal with corruption and tyranny without a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms and a billion dollar gun industry flooding the country with weapons. It's good that you actually went out and did the work, which is more than most Americans, but you know protests alone don't mean a thing.
Also the vast majority of Twitter users are American, and Americans aren't exactly quitting it either.