MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGuns, Republicans and "manliness": We all suffer from the right's mental health crisiswww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1600arrow-down167file-text
arrow-up1533arrow-down1external-linkGuns, Republicans and "manliness": We all suffer from the right's mental health crisiswww.salon.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square122fedilinkfile-text
Republican men seem massively troubled about their masculinity — and that’s literally causing death and suffering
minus-squarethe_q@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·1 year agoSo you want people to arm themselves to keep the most well equipped police force in the world in check? I’ll wait for you to see the flaw in your argument…
minus-squareHelixDab2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoOh, I’m in favor of removing cops toys too. And crushing police unions, and removing qualified immunity. But it turns out that yeah, when you have large groups of heavily armed citizens, that cops do, in fact, dial back their violence.
minus-squaredx1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoBasically the Stanford prison experiment tbh.
So you want people to arm themselves to keep the most well equipped police force in the world in check? I’ll wait for you to see the flaw in your argument…
Oh, I’m in favor of removing cops toys too. And crushing police unions, and removing qualified immunity.
But it turns out that yeah, when you have large groups of heavily armed citizens, that cops do, in fact, dial back their violence.
Basically the Stanford prison experiment tbh.