Their only interpretation of the 2nd is “the constitution says I get to have an arsenal and nobody can do anything about it.”

If you get a “smart one” they start spouting off supreme court and other rulings that went in their favor, and if faced with the argument that the Founding Fathers could not and would not ever have conceived of millions of guns in private hands with people having arsenals of weapons capable of modern day destruction - and especially if the Founders had been faced with school, workplace, or other random massacres - they would not have so vaguely worded the 2nd Amendment. Then they just say “well the constitution says I can, so eat it.”

They’re perfectly happy to let society pay for their hobby.

Yeah, the excerpt in period script that says “We the People…” and nothing else. Pretty much all they know of the constitution anyway besides the 2nd Amendment.

It’s like a car covered with bumper stickers. It’s mental illness. Unhealthy fear and rage leaking out around the edges and corrupting the facade of decency.

Some version of a window-wide US flag with the angry eagle, a Gadsden snake sticker, a gun maker sticker, an AR silhouette variant sticker with a juvenile anti-lib slogan like “my AR says fuck your lib tears” and of course the NRA sticker and a military service branch sticker.

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Gravy Seal. Proclaiming what a badass he is but probably starts wheezing just making it to the table from the Cracker Barrel parking lot.

If you’re forcing such ridiculous binary choices the problem is you.

I’ts all good bruddah, how you doin’?

There was supposed to be a well regulated militia.

The militia we have are gravy seals and Y’all Qaeda who want to dismantle regulation and rights.

Yeah, fucking over some wageslave by making them clean that up really sends a message to the country. TF, man.

The Battlefield franchise. I went back and played 1942, and disregarding the graphics, omg it’s so slow and clunky. It was the shit for the day, but man…compared to 2042 it’s super-dated.

Especially if one of the top fraggers pointed out they were being beaten by a girl.

Not really a gold star by the top player’s name for this, either. The comment alone leaves plenty of room to be interpreted as “girls should be easy to beat/poor gamers because they’re girls.”

But I’m from the Scooby-Doo generation.

Ascii or go home.

Equal “badness” in the sense of commercial/oligarchy takeover or the authoritarian nanny state. Extremes where citizen input is token at best. Russia is technically a democracy, but no regular person there has a hope of changing the government or policy with a vote.

Barely. Probably equally bad in some cases.

An educated citizenry that actively participates in government is the best solution, but we know that’s almost impossible for multiple reasons.

The wealthy reduced access to education and increased economic instability for the average person.

They wanted less taxation, so they made taxation evil. Taxation paid for education and could have been used for more. They also made sure things that would stabilize the middle and lower classes were cut or never materialized - free higher education, unions/pensions, and health care.

When you remove economic stability and reduce average income people need to work more and start working younger just to keep food on the table. No time for higher ed.

They created an environment that pitted people against each other where you “get yours” and fuck everyone else, crabs in a bucket, and also have been painting higher education as a bad thing ideologically. They now claim that it doesn’t work economically even though every metric shows higher education raises average lifetime earnings (assuming you don’t pursue a 6-figure education for a low-paying job and/or with poor advancement to higher wage tiers).

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No zebra? Guess I’m never writing again.

Dimethylmercury.

Two drops will kill you in a few months and nothing can be done. It penetrates clothing, regular latex gloves, and skin very easily and unnoticed.

Pretty terrifying stuff. Not sure you’d be able to figure out availability or production in your plot, but as far as poisons go you’d be set for time between dose and death.