A lot, actually. Tons of money is being poured into raising up popular propagandists because it works. Russia was caught doing it just recently.

Lots and lots of disabled people, even with disability income. The affordable housing wait list in some major cities is several years.

It’s complicated, but no, I don’t.

The nearest bus stop is an hour away, and it’s for interstate transit. 🤷

The place I’m planning to buy a home is so remote that I’m considering a backup car.

I learned how to repair my own vehicles after I was quoted $2,600 to install a $40 part. I could’ve also had an entire rebuilt engine shipped and swapped it in myself for about half that, but I ultimately decided to go with the $40 + basic tools.

Instead of posting a screenshot and a link, they posted a broken Instagram embed instead. Come on.

Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the maple syrup.

I’m sat down with a republican family member and she curses the television every time Trump starts one of his ridiculous rants instead of answering a question. It’s like watching a sports fan lament their favorite team losing.

I agree

Google: Why is my SMS messenger sending packets to Google?

FreeBSD went from 0.01% to 0% last month. 🪦

Maybe if you pulled yourselves up by your bootstraps, we could all live off our investment portfolios and the margaritas would just serve themselves.

I could sure use some of that money to buy the next iPhone. Just imagine what my friends would think if I didn’t.

Alpha mind virus.

A semi-auto rifle ban is also one issue that I believe if we laid off of it, Republicans would be more willing to play ball with common sense gun regulation knowing negotiations weren’t being made in bad faith and with an ultimate goal of opening a pathway to banning semi-auto rifles.

All of what I’ve said is already common knowledge to Republicans, but polls show they are open up to things like universal background checks and mandatory licensing. Just not when they feel like they need to use those things as a buffer to less justifiable regulatory ambitions. The Democratic attempt at voter appeasement with a hardball “all or bust” approach and a low willingness to have regulatory talks without a semi-auto rifle ban on the table has been very counterproductive on a federal level.

So they want to ban handguns, right?

Were you trying to communicate a point, or was this just an opportunity for you talk down to non-military gun owners as a whole using whatever nonsense you could pull out of your ass?

Remind me in ten years after semi-auto rifles are banned and handguns are up next on the chopping block because they [offers specific advantage to criminals that rifles didn’t]. I could probably sit here and name a good few, but the handgun’s overwhelming majority usage in crime compared to other weapon types already testifies to the dishonesty of the campaign against semi-auto rifles; a captivating or tragic story coupled with a classic alarmist piñata gets better ratings and speaks much louder than statistics, and as a consequence of effective campaigning, a conversation about banning handguns now would feel like an irrational leap to the public until semi-auto rifles are out of the way first.

Mass shootings specifically with semi-auto rifles are of the perfect (relative) rarity to make the rounds on national news occasionally, whereas the same coverage with handguns would have to make headlines almost every morning. And when you realize that only about 3% of all criminal gun homicides are related to mass shootings, it should be clear that anyone with public safety as a concern should keep their televisions off when considering how attention and resources should be allocated to the gun violence issue. The conversation about semi-auto rifle bans has put politicians and the media into symbiosis, and truthfully, there’s a chance it might not even happen.

Many of the common sense gun laws proposed are long overdue, but a ban on semi-auto rifles isn’t one of them right now.