I'm sure everyone by now is aware of the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, and acquiring US military equipment given to the Afghanistan's military to fight against the Taliban. That apparently is okay with Joe Biden. However what isn't okay with him is affordable ammo and firearms for civilians in the United States.
I find this very troubling.
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Printing money? Everything you just said there is so stupid and doesn't have any flow, that no one could possibly reply to that.
Isn't it troubling, Joe Biden is okay with the Taliban having Military weapons, but its lot okay for civilians having affordable ammo & firearms?
This is nothing new, nor is it a Biden issue, The Taliban was trained and created by US military and CIA in the 80s, not to mention the fact that both the Taliban and Afghan security forces were funded by the us government.
The Taliban are terrorists under government pay, its been under many administrations eyes, Trump met with Tali leaders when he was in office at camp David, so did Obama, and Bush...
Though trump did have an upper hand on negotiations hence why they weren't as active during his years. They were also fighting ISIS for a bit as well, and i imagine someone in the US Gov made a deal with them...
Na, he is the issue, everyone was asking if he was worried about the Taliban taking over and he said it be impossible. And they did it without F-15's and a Nuke!
This is exactly backwards. Joe biden is not okay with the Taliban having those things and he is okay with civilians having those things. I understand the far right fake news is trying very hard to brainwash people into believing the opposite, but you don't have to fall for it if you don't want to. Of course you know this so you must want to.
Then why would he always be saying, AR-15's should be illegal and bans the import of ammo and firearms? Also with the Taliban he said they never would take over Afghanistan?
He doesn't say that, though. And even if he hinted at it there are far more guns that just the AR-15. The thing about them is most mass shooters use them, which is a weird conincedence but figuring out why isn't always the same as doing something to stop it.
Also he said it was unlikely the Taliban would take over. And given the intelligence he had (which republicans denied him access to for months so trump could give his coup an solid try) it was a reasonable, if a little optimistic, conclusion.
AR-15 is among them so he wants to ban them right? Honestly its the one they want rid of the most because is the most common, so of course they want rid of the others to.
I don't think he actually wants to ban them. My guess is he was just pandering. Anyway, the president doesn't have the power to ban any particular weapon and there are far too many pro-gun democrats for any such thing to make it through congress.
In any case, you keep moving the goal posts. The question was about "ammo and firearms" not the AR15, exclusively.
I'm not moving the goal post AR-15 is a firearm write? Its all intertwined, and using that as proof of his intentions behind banning the import of Russian ammo hand firearms.
AR15 is one type of firearm amongst thousands, and there isn't even a chance of it being banned so this is fear mongering over something that isn't even worth being afraid about.
And being a Russian import isn't exactly a good thing, as Russia is not a friendly nation.
Right. And Wal-Mart had the lowest prices for all its junk until it put other stores out of business. Then it raises it's prices. You give Russia more than just your money when you but from them.
No they didn't have the lowest prices of 7.62x39 it was equally to all other sources. Russia is the only true source of steel cased ammo, ammo made anywhere else is always brass cased and is triple the price or more.
Nah, that's just something Russian propagandists brainwash right wingers in the U. S with. It's part of their age-old divide and conquer strategy - getting an enemy to gleefully fight itself. It's sadly effective. We almost lost our country on 1/6 because of it, and the Russians didn't fire a single shot - indeed they'd have sold us the ammo we'd be using on ourselves if we were in the midst of another civil war over the same "the rich shouldn't have to pay a living wage" ridiculousness as the first one. They laugh at us because of how easy right wingers are to manipulate with hate, insecurity, and wisecracks.
It would be something of a monumental feat to describe all their tricks. They've had 40+ years with thousands of full time professional careers dedicated to figuring out the right things to say. I can give at least one example off the too of my head, though. Tucker Carlson's formula of asking a question and then suggesting an answer which leads to another question and so on. The trick is all of his questions assume a premise that is untrue. He's literally telling his viewers, step by step, what to think except he's putting it in the form of a question so they feel smart for having answers instead of dumb for having fake questions. Also right wing news often puts on a show pretending to be angry - this brainwashed people into thinking it's normal to be frothing mad in public, instead of embarrassing.
Generally, it's easiest to assume anything in the right wing news that makes you feel satisfied, pissed, hopeful, or terrified is fake news.
Lol see all that more in the left wing news. I don't watch right wing news or left regularly. They only time I watch the news from the left is when its involving an important issue to me. To know what they are saying about and get some laughs on how stupid they are on the subject.
Uh huh. Perhaps you believe you are fooling yourself? In any case, I have trouble seriously entertaining the idea that you haven't been completely taken in by the far right fake news's attempts to make people think printing more money for the rich is the edgy and rebellious thing to do, and that taking responsibility for anything besides your own stuff is lame and embarassing. The right needs everyone to be self absorbed animals or no one will vote for them. They used to have to be clever about it back when public education was better funded, but I suspect as Republican voters grow more and more weary with deciphering subtext, it won't be long before we have conservatives just flat out saying "what's so wrong about being self abosrbed?" To head that off with the obvious answer you won't ever hear from the right I'll say "because we are supposed to be the species that strives to surpass our animal instincts. If you don't want that life, there are plenty of caves out there: go find one."
@normalice Its hard to be taken when you don't watch any news
Also I could say the same thing about how the left brainwashes kids as soon as they get in to any public education and often even younger becomes of the education kids shows they watch.
Sure, you can say anything. It doesn't make it true. What is it you imagine kids are getting brainwashed with? Civility? I suppose that's fair. We do try to brainwash kids in to being civilized, but as you are demonstrating it doesn't always take.
But apart from that there is no brainwashing taking place in school that I'm aware of, unless you count weirdos who make kids say the pledge of allegiance ever day. It's just teaching, or the attempt to, by woefully underfunded teachers trying to make their own jobs as easy as possible given the constant funding squeezes republicans subject them to in their endless attempt to turn education over to private profit.
Then you haven't been paying attention to that at all then. Because the biggest thing they are pushing right now in schools is critical race theory, some go so far that a leftist principle segregated students based of skin color.
Critical race theory is not being taught in K-12. That's just something the far right fake news brainwashes their viewers with to generate fake outrage leading up to 2022. It is always campaign season with worthless republicans, because they don't govern they just print more money for themselves.
Its not everywhere but there are K-12 schools pushing it into their coriculum. I have seen videos of school board meetings of parents fighting against it.
Right, by far right wingers or actors paid by them who show up and rant about a nonexistent "problem" to brainwash people like you into thinking its a normal and not at all embarassing thing to be mad about. The right wing has been perfecting its messaging tactics, and nothing else, for at least four decades. If only they had spent even a tenth of that energy on just doing their job maybe republicans wouldn't be such a useless party. People talk about the big lie but fake election fraud is really just a little lie. The big lie is that the Republican party is a real political party and not just a horde of snake oil salesman with the only goal being to print more money for themselves and will say absolutely anything to get people like you (or anyone) to allow them to do so.
The far right fake news says the left has tragedy actors so it feels funny to then discover that the right has outrage actors. That is the main motivation behind the "accuse the other side of that which you are guilty" tactic so favored by the right. And while that tactic is effective it has one crucial flaw in that once it it discovered it is an admission of guilt. Once you learn that republicans so precisely fit their description of democrats, you can not any longer believe they are unaware. You must accept they are lying on purpose and there is no reason to give them any thought any longer, as if they incidentally say anything truthful it isn't because they've decided to be honest.
Wouldn't have been any better if it took a month or a year. It should have been a slow withdrawal over years, and that much was obvious. It's not some miscalculation, it's a proper fuck up at the decision level.
I despise gun control supporters, especially elites who spend millions trying to disarm American citizens by legislating away second amendment guarantees and natural, self evident, unalienable rights granted by the creator that Americans fought and died to defend. I'll keep my second amendment rights, thank you very much.
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Democrats love to give guns to everyone other than Americans who they love to take them away from. Has always been the case.
Remember fast and the furious Obama literally just gave guns to the drug cartels
Yeah, the reason was to follow the trail and catch them. But that only works if you follow through with it. Now those guns are killing people and they have the nerve to say, we need get control of this "gunshow loophole" 😡😡😡😡😡
It’s very troubling. But the Biden Administration doesn’t seem to see the Taliban as dangerous. You have to wonder why $85 billion of great military equipment was simply left in such a corrupt country. One wonders if the administration wanted it to end up in certain hands but didn’t want to be seen to be directly handing it to them. It Willen interesting to see where it ends up, that may tell us where the administration actually wanted the equipment to go. Iran, perhaps?
Our government trusted a lot of leaders and groups in the middle east. Osama bin Laden is one of the many names that are on the list of trust parties in the US. Our government has a very, very long history of stupid mistakes in the Middle East. Sad thing is that many people are so politically divided many people refuse to accept or even acknowledge that what is happening now is simply part of a bigger issue that both parties created and contributed to.
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Isn't it hilarious that the right-wing pretends to give a shit about Afghanistan, just so they can find something/anything to criticize Biden about?
If you're having to stretch this badly, he must be doing a better job than I thought.
I care when our men an women give their lives for decades to try and stablize an area and teach them to stand up for themselves, but because of decisions our leader makes and the soft backbone of the people in Afghanistan, all that work is lost. Then this administration has the nerve to say that the Taliban is cooperating in letting Americans leave Afghanistan, but in reality they are being beaten for trying to leave.
Really? I dont remember you and your ilk complaining when Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David, praised them as fighters and negotiators, released their leader from prison and initiated the withdrawl.
So take your fake outrage at Biden and shove it up your ass.
I didn't attack you. I pointed out that i can't take you or the rightwing criticism of Biden seriously.
IF you had been as critical when Trump pulled out of Syria without warning, betrayed the Kurdish allies and left American bases, arms, munitions and technology fkr the Russians, maybe I'd think your Afghan concerns were real or rooted in anything other than ignorant hypocritical opportunism.
But you and your kind didn't give a shit, so i find it hard to take you seriously now.
Trump said he was going to bomb the gel out of the Middle East instead he got out with his tail between his legs, now you fools want to blame it on Biden, typical.
Trump started the process of pulling out of Afghanistan, but Biden pulled the out to fast. Also when everyone was concerned about the Taliban taking over Afghanistan he said the never could talk Afghanistan over.
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