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  • This is, because it is not news but an opinion piece and reads more like a wishlist.

    the looming defeat of the United States and NATO in the Ukraine War

    Israel too will have to vacate its occupied territories and make space for a state of Palestine, which of course, will be a crushing defeat for the U.S. and marks the end of its global dominance.

    an escalation by the Resistance is inevitable and Israel could suffer a “huge earthquake,” as Hezbollah is in a state of readiness to intervene.

    Tehran will not be deterred by the deployment of two U.S. aircraft carriers and several warships and fighter jets off the shores of Israel

    if the BRICS were to take a lead role at some point to navigate a Middle East peace process that is no longer the monopoly of the U.S. This is payback time for Russia.

    The era of petrodollar is ending — and along with that, U.S. global hegemony. The emergent trends, therefore, go a long way to strengthen multipolarity in the world order.

    A wishlist of somebody who thinks that.more power to dictatorships will somehwo mean more freedom in the world?











  • As far as I see it, @BaroqueInMind was trying to make two points:

    1. “The real reason for the 2nd is to legit kill tyrants”
    2. “(Without guns) you are a toothless bitch you cant fight back without certain and pointless death.”

    So his points are that the 2A guarantee his right to assassinate the President, if he decides that he is a tyrant and for armed resistance againt an executive force of the government.

    I argued that fighting the US government’s forces with handguns and winning is a testosterone fantasy.

    So where exactly is my Straw Man?

    The 2A may have been meant to protect a “free state” but in today’s reality, it fails to achieve this goal. On the other hand, the laws arguing from it, have lead to the greatest number of civilian gun deaths outside an active war zone.




  • Targeting legal gun owners won’t stop criminals from carrying firearms.

    Please compare the percentage of crimes commited with a firearm versus all crimes commited for the US and countries that have functioning laws limiting private gun ownership. In Germany (population about 80.000.000) in 2022 there were about 200,000 “crimes against personal freedoms” (this number is probably too low because I only added the numbers for the two main types of these crimes). In about 4500 cases (of all crimes) a gun was used to threaten somebody and in about 4000 cases (of all crimes) a shot was fired. So in the overwhelming majority of violent crimes (about 96%) no guns were used.