I could hear some guys in my neighborhood outside yesterday talking about how this won’t effect the election. One of them yelled out “Well at least the republicans are the ones with the guns!” Everyone just kinda got quiet and looked at him like he was an idiot.
Remember he’s not the only dangerous one. Every vote counts, and all of them are voting red.
I worked with a guy who was appalled that I was buying go fast parts for my car instead of stocking up on guns and ammo for the upcoming war. He also had his neighborhood mapped out as to who are the democrats so he knows who to go after first. I asked him if he thought democrats don’t have guns too and he just stared at me. After a bit he just changed the subject to a racist rant about rap music.
You should report him to the FBI and your work. The statement is enough to probably get him fired and with luck his gun horde will be illegal when the FBI comes knocking
He’s gone (thankfully), and a few of the guys I work with did report him. I’m just waiting to see him on the news and all the people saying how they never saw it coming “he was such a nice guy”.
For the longest time I thought this was solely a matter of education; but these days, I’m beginning to think such right-wing extremism is also a matter of mental illness.
Things like poor parenting, brain injuries from football, lead exposure from guns and motorsports, substance abuse, shitty diets, etc. – all culminate in a banner of people who are… Not of sound mind.
Saying this as a former rural Appalachian Republican from decades ago.
I agree that a lot is mental illness but I think it’s more education. They fall for the lies and get in line and do what they’re told to do by sources like fox “news”. It’s scary how it’s changed, I had Republican friends that we could all hang out and even discuss politics with no problems. Now, we don’t talk at all, there is no discussion. I am the enemy and I don’t even care about politics, just be a good human. I don’t think you can be a good human and support the Republicans at this time, it’s gone off the rails.
You’re likely right that education is still the prevailing issue, but I think we need to get more specific on what kind of education people receive in terms of safeguarding against false rhetoric. Drilling in the logical fallacies, teaching ethics, and even teaching common propaganda techniques so you can identify them. We need to step back and ask ourselves how we managed to escape the rabbit hole when others could not.
The echo-chambers have become so ironclad that it’s so difficult to pierce through and drag someone out.
This is a great indicator that free will isn’t what we think. I’ve been chatting to maga family about free will through that “how we managed to escape the rabbit hole” lens. There’s often a lot of reasons we have different opinions and tracing the distributed causality is pretty fun because you can avoid the propoganda talking points but still make progress. I think it helps them question information or to be more guarded instead of immediately parroting fox news lines.
Right-Wing Authoritarianism is a well-studied, if controversial, and ostensibly hereditary psychosocial predisposition that strongly predicts a number of psychiatric comorbidities often associated with acute cerebral trauma.
One of them yelled out “Well at least the republicans are the ones with the guns!”
Having grown up out in the boonies in a deeply conservative area and with deeply conservative parents, this kind of rhetoric is just like their fuckin bird calls to each other, they spout this machismo constantly about everything. If a redneck gets looked at weird for saying this, that’s a freak occurrence because these folks number in the millions.
Ey now lets not associate Rednecks as a whole with these usually white trash welps. Some of us use their stupidity to note who we can jack a gun from in a worst case scenario.
Are these those white ones I have around me? The ones that are out here tend to be pretty white around the head and neck, usually have a bright splash of red starting at the shoulders and moving down the back. I know mine can be big fuckers, some are pushing 300lbs. I have to get the tractor for those.
Lucky they aren’t very fast, but you really got to carefully, they tend to run in packs.
I could hear some guys in my neighborhood outside yesterday talking about how this won’t effect the election. One of them yelled out “Well at least the republicans are the ones with the guns!” Everyone just kinda got quiet and looked at him like he was an idiot.
Remember he’s not the only dangerous one. Every vote counts, and all of them are voting red.
My maga friend told me to stock up on food come November. Dude is fucking brainwashed by beanie man Tim Poole
I worked with a guy who was appalled that I was buying go fast parts for my car instead of stocking up on guns and ammo for the upcoming war. He also had his neighborhood mapped out as to who are the democrats so he knows who to go after first. I asked him if he thought democrats don’t have guns too and he just stared at me. After a bit he just changed the subject to a racist rant about rap music.
I’m sorry… But this seems like a guy to report
You should report him to the FBI and your work. The statement is enough to probably get him fired and with luck his gun horde will be illegal when the FBI comes knocking
He’s gone (thankfully), and a few of the guys I work with did report him. I’m just waiting to see him on the news and all the people saying how they never saw it coming “he was such a nice guy”.
So you know who he is, and you expect him to commit an atrocity, but your plan is to just… let it happen?
Buddy…
What do you want me to do? Shoot him first? He’s been reported by multiple people.
Including you, or is this the bystander effect?
Bruh it sounds like he already brought it to the police. Lay off
For the longest time I thought this was solely a matter of education; but these days, I’m beginning to think such right-wing extremism is also a matter of mental illness.
Things like poor parenting, brain injuries from football, lead exposure from guns and motorsports, substance abuse, shitty diets, etc. – all culminate in a banner of people who are… Not of sound mind.
Saying this as a former rural Appalachian Republican from decades ago.
Edit: added “solely” for some clarification.
Its just people miserable with their lot in life and that hate themselves, and wanting to blame someone else for it.
I agree that a lot is mental illness but I think it’s more education. They fall for the lies and get in line and do what they’re told to do by sources like fox “news”. It’s scary how it’s changed, I had Republican friends that we could all hang out and even discuss politics with no problems. Now, we don’t talk at all, there is no discussion. I am the enemy and I don’t even care about politics, just be a good human. I don’t think you can be a good human and support the Republicans at this time, it’s gone off the rails.
You’re likely right that education is still the prevailing issue, but I think we need to get more specific on what kind of education people receive in terms of safeguarding against false rhetoric. Drilling in the logical fallacies, teaching ethics, and even teaching common propaganda techniques so you can identify them. We need to step back and ask ourselves how we managed to escape the rabbit hole when others could not.
The echo-chambers have become so ironclad that it’s so difficult to pierce through and drag someone out.
That’s a good point. I would say having empathy and being a critical thinker would be a good start to escaping the rabbit hole.
This is a great indicator that free will isn’t what we think. I’ve been chatting to maga family about free will through that “how we managed to escape the rabbit hole” lens. There’s often a lot of reasons we have different opinions and tracing the distributed causality is pretty fun because you can avoid the propoganda talking points but still make progress. I think it helps them question information or to be more guarded instead of immediately parroting fox news lines.
Right-Wing Authoritarianism is a well-studied, if controversial, and ostensibly hereditary psychosocial predisposition that strongly predicts a number of psychiatric comorbidities often associated with acute cerebral trauma.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism
They really love to change subjects a lot don’t they
Wow, and what did the police say when you reported the guy with a kill list of his neighborhood?
“We’ll look into it” - not holding my breath
There is a reason why I register as independent.
Every fuckin time there is any large political story that doesn’t involve Trump being fellated, Tim Pool makes war-provoking tweets.
Which is wild because this is a dude who wouldn’t survive five minutes in a conflict.
no one is immune to drone bombs or sniper rifles. The best way to survive a conflict is to not be in it.
Is Tim still pretending to be a “centrist” nowadays?
He says he’s left leaning with liberal tendencies 😂
Just when I think Tim Poole can’t get dumber, he proves me wrong and gets dumber.
Having grown up out in the boonies in a deeply conservative area and with deeply conservative parents, this kind of rhetoric is just like their fuckin bird calls to each other, they spout this machismo constantly about everything. If a redneck gets looked at weird for saying this, that’s a freak occurrence because these folks number in the millions.
May I remind you that Jan 6 happened. This ain’t just macho bs anymore.
Ey now lets not associate Rednecks as a whole with these usually white trash welps. Some of us use their stupidity to note who we can jack a gun from in a worst case scenario.
Def not a repug but i do have a couple guns…for varmints
Are these those white ones I have around me? The ones that are out here tend to be pretty white around the head and neck, usually have a bright splash of red starting at the shoulders and moving down the back. I know mine can be big fuckers, some are pushing 300lbs. I have to get the tractor for those.
Lucky they aren’t very fast, but you really got to carefully, they tend to run in packs.