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  • That’s exactly what they do, these people are obsessed with the idea that someone is going to break in at night and try to hurt their family.

    I had a colleague who invited me to dinner and just casually plopped his pistol on the counter before serving his kids dinner, and explained why it’s always loaded and has a round chambered, he worried the intruder would be so high on drugs that a single shot might not stop them, so you need the gun ready to go so you can react fast and hit him several times to take him down. This same explanation was given to me by a few people.

    It was out of the kids’ reach, holstered, and the safety was on. He has very strict rules that he follows when handling the gun, he was very aware of his gun when he allowed me to handle it, after he unchambered it, and made sure I swept the ground and pointed it at the top of the exterior wall of the house where no neighbors live. I didn’t feel unsafe at any moment, but that druggie scenario isn’t one I was worried about in our very safe suburban neighborhoods.

    I have kids, and I have guns. I’m a leftists who believes an armed minority is harder to oppress. My kids don’t know that I have guns and don’t have access to them, and won’t until they are able to understand why we have them. You can’t expect them to just know to be responsible gun owners just because you are.











  • Yeah that’s what I said.

    “Organize” doesn’t mean you find out there’s a planned protest in a designated area away from everyone and surrounded by cops to make sure you’re contained. That’s performative.

    Organize means building power from the ground up, knocking on doors, meeting in living rooms, cooking meals, making childcare plans, and finding the people in your community who are ready to fight and ready to love. It means strategizing together, planning direct actions that disrupt, not entertain power. It means understanding that the terrain of struggle isn’t just symbolic; it’s material. Streets, workplaces, campuses, and housing complexes become the front lines.

    Organizing is about forming bonds that last beyond a single march, about mutual trust and shared risk. It’s not just about showing up, it’s about staying. It’s not a hashtag, it’s a commitment. It’s not consent to be managed, it’s consent to resist.









  • We haven’t gotten to cleaning the mess yet. Your mess, we’re in it now.

    You all insisted on voting for a non viable right wing candidate and she lost. The numbers have been out long enough for you to make a correct conclusion: people didn’t vote for Trump over Kamala, they just rejected fascism-light from the Democrats and stayed home.

    Liberals love slogans like “Believe in science,” “Love is love,” or “Black Lives Matter.” But these mantras are pasted onto a system that jails Black and brown youth at staggering rates, exports death through drone strikes and sanctions, and props up apartheid regimes like Israel with billions in aid. Kamala Harris, as California’s “Top Cop,” made a name for herself by locking up poor people, defending death row convictions tainted by misconduct, and laughing off truancy policies that disproportionately harmed working-class families. She literally argued in court that the state would “lose a source of cheap labor” if incarcerated people were released early. And yet, liberals who marched under banners reading “ACAB” in 2020 did backflips to justify their support for her.

    Why? Because identity politics, stripped of any materialist critique, has become the liberal religion. It’s a shallow representation game: so long as a candidate checks certain demographic boxes, they’re granted moral immunity from the violence they enact. A woman bombing Yemen is better than a man bombing Yemen, apparently. A Black VP rubber-stamping military aid to Israel is a milestone of inclusion, even as Gaza burns.

    And here lies the grotesque irony. Liberals chant about systemic racism, but refuse to confront the systemic violence upheld by the very leaders they support. They denounce ICE, but back an administration that continues deportations and funds border militarization. They wave rainbow flags while voting for a VP who until recently held archaic positions on same-sex marriage. They scream about reproductive rights, but ignore how imperial policies abroad strip countless peoples of even the right to live.

    Real leftist politics demands we dismantle the structures that Kamala Harris has spent her entire career fortifying. It requires we see through the illusion of liberal “progress” and recognize that the carceral state, imperial hegemony, and racial capitalism do not become humane just because a woman of color is in charge of them. That’s not justice.

    We’ll clean up the mess, but it’s gonna get messier first. You can choose to join us in cleaning up the mess, or you can waste your energy fighting on behalf of Gavin Newsom or whichever unpopular objective piece of shit the DNC forces down your throat next time.