• Oxysis/Oxy
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    1 year ago

    I wish I could but I know what would happen if I did

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      During the Zapatistas revolt in Mexico (which, incidentally, was successful), many Mayan women who would not shoot a gun instead carried dummy rifles, essentially just wood carved like an AK47.

      You can’t carry a gun, certainly, but you can be a combatant, you can make the enemy afraid, you can draw fire, you can shame the enemy for their cowardice and make them afraid of your bravery and willingness to die for a cause. I am a pacifist, but I will still die alongside my comrades if it comes to that. Maybe get some bulletproof shields.

      • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
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        Do you know the song Chop Suey, by System of a Down?

        Do you know the original name of that song, before the record company forced them to change it?

        That’s what she’s referring to, I think.

        Hint

        Suicide

  • 7355608@lemmy.world
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    Hate it or otherwise, the enemy is armed, and if their fervor isn’t matched they won’t stop to think. If they have to consider you an equal threat that forces at least some of them rethink their position. And some of them will walk away, cause their hate isn’t as powerful as their will to live.

    Those too hateful to see reason you where always going to have to fight tooth an nail, but at least there will be less of them.

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    I’m in the process of parting out a rifle currently, and already have a handgun. I figure there are plenty of queer people who can’t own firearms for good reasons, so it’s up to those of us who aren’t at risk of intentional misuse to be community protectors (this applies to non-queer allies, too!)