Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology of everything creepy, evolution, history, physics, politics and space.
Progressive. Ally. SocDem. Euro-Federalist.
Political Compass: -7.0, -6.62
Germany just turned its nobility into bureaucrats, capitalists, military, civil servants and political leaders… so same shit, different system.
Only losing WWI had us abolish nobility and by then the transformation of power through birth to power through money and influence had already happened.
Oh there are plenty of lefty gun-brains, preparing for either the revolution or wanting to protect against a fascist government.
They’re all gravely mistaken when they think that gun ownership does anything except increasing statistics for gun deaths and police shootings.
Fish is not a valid cladistic term. Birds are reptiles in the same way that people are vertebrates would be about equivalent and correct.
Miez gonna send me to take the Ring to Mordor
And what help is gun ownership now? Sure as shit no people in the streets repelling ICE with force. The state and the right are vastly more heavily armed and armed conflict is exactly what they are looking for.
A firearm is absolutely useless protecting your family and doing your civic duty. It’s a placebo that lets people sleep at night instead of organizing and joining widespread strikes and direct action.