Americans will look you dead in the eyes and say "the second amendment empowers us to protect ourselves from tyranny and that's why today America is the freest and safest country in the world" with a straight face.
My Medicare card does more to protect me than every gun in the US does to protect a single American. Then these "under no pretext" brainlets come in as if the literal poster child for capitalism wasn't built on that philosophy. Guns don't overthrow governments, organised groups do. Guns kill people.
I feel like I need to start going out onto street corners and yelling at people who walk by "YOU CAN SQUEEZE A BUTTERKNIFE BETWEEN THE LID AND THE GLASS AND INSTANTLY BREAK THE PRESSURE SEAL! IT WILL OPEN AS IF IT HAD ALREADY BEEN OPENED. YOU DONT NEED A SPECIALISED TOOL OR A GYM MEMBERSHIP!!"
My theory is they want to help and believe themselves capable but when someone asks a question that they don't know the answer to, they either have to admit to themselves that they don't know and aren't as capable as they thought or they have to find a way to blame the person asking for help. Mentally the path of least resistance is to just blame the user and it's also not exactly false to say it's the help seekers fault, it's just a bit of a dick move and unhelpful.
My dad who works for an Australian mining company has been given burner phones for all his trips to China for years now, same for laptops and anything that might be connected to the Internet.
Americans will look you dead in the eyes and say "the second amendment empowers us to protect ourselves from tyranny and that's why today America is the freest and safest country in the world" with a straight face.
My Medicare card does more to protect me than every gun in the US does to protect a single American. Then these "under no pretext" brainlets come in as if the literal poster child for capitalism wasn't built on that philosophy. Guns don't overthrow governments, organised groups do. Guns kill people.