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Post by Uncaripswife on Feb 19, 2018 5:27:09 GMT -6
What's next?
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Post by JukEboX on Feb 19, 2018 5:48:45 GMT -6
I am with these kids all the way. There is something about this movement that is being started by the kids that gives me hope. Maybe now everyone will make change when the kids stop the system from running. They are coming for the NRA and for the politicians that take money from them. Students after Florida shooting: You're either with us or against us
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Post by byjove on Feb 19, 2018 6:13:48 GMT -6
Please let something good happen this week 🙏
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Post by JukEboX on Feb 19, 2018 6:26:23 GMT -6
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Post by dc2london on Feb 19, 2018 7:39:28 GMT -6
If you're looking for a glimmer of hope this morning, check out #vetsforgunreform on Twitter
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Post by anastasia on Feb 19, 2018 7:54:30 GMT -6
I want to push for a school walk out at my school. It's not going to be popular in the community and I'm not sure I have the guts for it, but it's my safety as a teacher I want to fight for, too. I think I have that right.
Also, I want to come back and play. I was taking an extended break from useful political action with my crazy ass life and it made me feel guilty and overwhelmed to be here. But I've been back at the postcarding and phone calling for awhile. I've even started to rejoin my protest planning team. I think I'm ready for the Current Event board!
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Post by JukEboX on Feb 19, 2018 8:09:41 GMT -6
I want to push for a school walk out at my school. It's not going to be popular in the community and I'm not sure I have the guts for it, but it's my safety as a teacher I want to fight for, too. I think I have that right. Also, I want to come back and play. I was taking an extended break from useful political action with my crazy ass life and it made me feel guilty and overwhelmed to be here. But I've been back at the postcarding and phone calling for awhile. I've even started to rejoin my protest planning team. I think I'm ready for the Current Event board! I posted that video on my facebook and it kind of makes me feel like I am in a minority thinking that something can be done when so many pro-gun, life is shit, and disillusioned people respond to it in the negative. I am not saying you can't have a gun. Just register it, have a background check, maybe a pshych exam and your good. Also we need better support for mental health and tackle gun trafficking and lost of weapons to the black market by the military.
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Post by anastasia on Feb 19, 2018 8:14:52 GMT -6
It's just so asinine to say, well, we can't stop it all, so let's not even try. Even if it takes decades for stronger gun laws to reduce the number of weapons on the street, it will be worth it. Obviously, I prefer quicker action, but even taking steps now to help in the future would be better than the nothing we've got going atm.
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Post by kitchen on Feb 19, 2018 8:14:55 GMT -6
When our kids are mobilizing and asking us to change, how can anyone think "now is not the time."? I so hope this is the movement we need to make change.
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Post by anastasia on Feb 19, 2018 8:18:02 GMT -6
And I agree hardcore with Pod Save America. Democrats need to stop trying to court the crazies on all issues. Don't pretend you love the 2nd amendment, but... No. They needed to stand up for what they believe in, for what's right. They'll energize the people who would actually vote for them if they took a real stand instead of tiptoing around the lunatics who would never vote for them anyways.
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Post by anastasia on Feb 19, 2018 8:20:55 GMT -6
When our kids are mobilizing and asking us to change, how can anyone think "now is not the time."? I so hope this is the movement we need to make change. I hope you're all right. I'm not holding my breath. Look at all the bullshit the Republicans are doing completely against the wishes of the American people and for the benefit of their donors. I think we need real political change, to win back Congress, before anything will happen. But I still think it's so important for these kids to keep it up. And for us to support them.
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Post by catspajamas on Feb 19, 2018 8:47:27 GMT -6
And I agree hardcore with Pod Save America. Democrats need to stop trying to court the crazies on all issues. Don't pretend you love the 2nd amendment, but... No. They needed to stand up for what they believe in, for what's right. They'll energize the people who would actually vote for them if they took a real stand instead of tiptoing around the lunatics who would never vote for them anyways. Yes, this. I'm ready for Dems to do this on a lot of fronts, but especially on gun control.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 8:57:11 GMT -6
Yesterday a gun owner told me that if he wants to buy an AR to, and I quote "look cool" - well that's his right and it outweighs my son's safety.
So, yeah.
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Post by athn64 on Feb 19, 2018 8:59:50 GMT -6
Yesterday a gun owner told me that if he wants to buy an AR to, and I quote "look cool" - well that's his right and it outweighs my son's safety. So, yeah. This is so gross. I'm sorry.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 9:03:20 GMT -6
Yesterday a gun owner told me that if he wants to buy an AR to, and I quote "look cool" - well that's his right and it outweighs my son's safety. So, yeah. This is so gross. I'm sorry. Hey, at least I know where the extreme right assholes are at. Give me more fuel fuckers, because I am going to help take down your party in November.
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Post by enchanted on Feb 19, 2018 9:03:58 GMT -6
POTUS back on the golf course today so we will get a tweet break for a little while. He doesn’t even pretend to work. Good. The tweet tantrum.over the weekend was...well, it's never a good look when he tweets, but that one was something else entirely.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 9:04:45 GMT -6
Basically I am just going to use that comment to continue to fuel my anger. I will remember it, as well as standing at the gate outside Columbine a week after the shooting, looking at the cars of the victims still in the lot. Those 2 feelings are going to fuel me to just keep pushing forward.
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Post by lea on Feb 19, 2018 9:38:39 GMT -6
Yesterday a gun owner told me that if he wants to buy an AR to, and I quote "look cool" - well that's his right and it outweighs my son's safety. So, yeah. Well, I want to strap a torpedo to my back to look cool but people decided it’s not in the best interest of society if I do that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 9:40:52 GMT -6
Yesterday a gun owner told me that if he wants to buy an AR to, and I quote "look cool" - well that's his right and it outweighs my son's safety. So, yeah. Well, I want to strap a torpedo to my back to look cool but people decided it’s not in the best interest of society if I do that. Lol. Right?
And I am fairly certain this person I was speaking to, is probably the extreme of the extreme. Most gun owners I have come into contact with and talked about this with, do not feel that way. I feel like he was being an asshole, just to be an asshole and get a reaction.
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Post by Uncaripswife on Feb 19, 2018 9:54:03 GMT -6
And I agree hardcore with Pod Save America. Democrats need to stop trying to court the crazies on all issues. Don't pretend you love the 2nd amendment, but... No. They needed to stand up for what they believe in, for what's right. They'll energize the people who would actually vote for them if they took a real stand instead of tiptoing around the lunatics who would never vote for them anyways. Preach
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Post by cakewench on Feb 19, 2018 10:23:06 GMT -6
What banana republic propaganda bullshit is this?! Did he write this description himself?
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Post by enchanted on Feb 19, 2018 10:26:01 GMT -6
Y'all, people are going after the survivors of the Parkland shooting, asking why they are organizing instead of attending funerals & demanding to know who's funding them. It is so tasteless and appalling. These are children who watched their friends be murdered, who hid in classrooms and listened to it happen, who ran from someone shooting them. WTH is wrong with these people??? Ammosexuals are deviants.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 10:32:51 GMT -6
Y'all, people are going after the survivors of the Parkland shooting, asking why they are organizing instead of attending funerals & demanding to know who's funding them. It is so tasteless and appalling. These are children who watched their friends be murdered, who hid in classrooms and listened to it happen, who ran from someone shooting them. WTH is wrong with these people??? I am guessing this is happening in the dumpster land that I cannot quit, also known as Twitter?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 11:18:07 GMT -6
There's a group of teens holding a "lie-in" in front of the WH to demand changes to our gun laws.
People are joining them.
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Post by catspajamas on Feb 19, 2018 11:25:58 GMT -6
What banana republic propaganda bullshit is this?! Did he write this description himself? Omg. Survived two broken marriages and several failed businesses? Like he was the victim there? UGH
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Post by mb3 on Feb 19, 2018 11:32:27 GMT -6
What banana republic propaganda bullshit is this?! Did he write this description himself? I don’t know where to start on this.... - $1M can really fuel a storm - marriages that broke because he routinely cheats on his spouse - failed businesses AND BANKRUPTCY
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Post by mb3 on Feb 19, 2018 11:34:17 GMT -6
Story about Obama after Sandy Hook. I'm so depressed. Trump had to be told not to play golf over the weekend while funerals of children were ongoing. He met with the families of children in the hospital briefly, then went on to Mar a Lago and partied. His picture of him meeting with police to talk about the shooting, he's grinning & giving the thumbs up. Apparently in the course of meeting with LEOs, this happened: I mean, of course he would have used a horrific mass murder of children to self-aggrandize. OF COURSE HE WOULD. He's used this shooting as an opportunity to disparage the FBI & criticize the Russia investigation--of which the folks in the FBI who should have been on top of the Florida shooter have nothing to do with. He is an appallingly self-centered human being, apparently incapable of empathy. I just...I hate that this man is our president. What is wrong with him? I’m crying
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 11:41:08 GMT -6
Story about Obama after Sandy Hook. I'm so depressed. Trump had to be told not to play golf over the weekend while funerals of children were ongoing. He met with the families of children in the hospital briefly, then went on to Mar a Lago and partied. His picture of him meeting with police to talk about the shooting, he's grinning & giving the thumbs up. Apparently in the course of meeting with LEOs, this happened: I mean, of course he would have used a horrific mass murder of children to self-aggrandize. OF COURSE HE WOULD. He's used this shooting as an opportunity to disparage the FBI & criticize the Russia investigation--of which the folks in the FBI who should have been on top of the Florida shooter have nothing to do with. He is an appallingly self-centered human being, apparently incapable of empathy. I just...I hate that this man is our president. What is wrong with him? He is a disgusting shitpig of a human being and I renounce him. He is not my president. Fuck him.
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Post by athn64 on Feb 19, 2018 11:49:04 GMT -6
It's so stark to see how far we've fallen when we see examples of Obama in tragedy compared to that pig.
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Post by CurlieWhirlie on Feb 19, 2018 12:18:32 GMT -6
My older, conservative, slightly racist neighbor does our taxes. I’ve known her all my life and she’s lovely to my kids so I try to keep away from talking about politics with her because it goes nowhere. Like the comment someone made about Flat Earthers the other day rings very true with her.
She came over the other night to do our taxes and saw the Pete Souza Obama book on our coffee table. She made some comment about how he was a bad man. So I, trying to be diplomatic, said “you mean a bad President? Like, you didn’t agree with his policies?” She says “No, like he is a bad person.”
I just. WHAT.
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