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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      121·
      10 months ago

      It’s never said openly, but quite literally, yes.

      After all, food is a commodity. Housing is a commodity. Hell, healthcare in the US is privatized. If you can’t pay, you’re often screwed.

      Not to mention sweatshops, pollution, improper disposal of waste, worsening climate change, supporting wars for money…

      The list goes on. Our world is run by the principle of “private properly is more important than lives”.

    • Bizarroland@kbin.social
      71·
      10 months ago

      And as everybody knows the penalty for stealing, even so much as a stick of bubble gum, is death by firing squad

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    10 months ago

    OK wait hold on, serious question, who the FUCK is behind him? UCP pattern was completely phased out of the army years ago. I can sort of make out “state” something on the name tape that usually says branch, and there definitely isn’t an American flag patch anywhere.

    Edit: state guard. Basically disaster relief like national guard but can’t be federalized.

    • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      10 months ago

      You just sent me down a rabbit hole of US state militia history, and now I feel like the 2d Amendment actually makes sense—people were expected to have their own weapons so they could be called by the state into militia duty if needed. Our current 2A precedent is so far off base it’s insane.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        Next time anyone complains about gun control and cites the second amendment, just ask them what “well regulated” means over and over until they leave.

        • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          10 months ago

          The thing that I find surprising is that I’ve always heard variations of “no one knows what they REALLY meant” when the drafters wrote 2A. I’ve known there were historical militias but I didn’t realize that they were either organized by the state or state-sanctioned. I didn’t think the drafters meant to create autonomous militias that are sedition prone (like the current private “militias” that play apocalypse games in the woods of the Midwest). And that’s because they FUCKING didn’t. It’s a relic and the current interpretation (guns for everyone at birth so they can blow anyone’s face off at the slightest provocation or accident) is a sham.

    • expatriado@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      like national guard but can’t be federalized.

      lemmy is making me an expert in all things federalization

    • 800XL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      10 months ago

      I get the feeling that if there is something going on in this political climate where looting is happening chances are the looters will be armed for protection and that if DeSantis’s compensation army starts firing, they might be surprised.