Edit context: Hasan is calling out right-wingers for getting upset about leftists carrying guns.

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I read that as Hasan questioning the MAGAt if there was any value rightoids won’t forfeit since they are stereotypically very 2A and now this guy’s positing as if owning guns to guard against a tyrannical government is bad.

    If he was trying to criticize leftists or liberals, why’d he choose a right wing source of the news to react to?


    To be fair, I don’t really watch Hasan, so it’s possible my interpretation is completely wrong as clarified in one of his streams.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, that’s how I read it too.

      The thing about reactionaries is that they think rules are for other people. It’s only hypocritical if one takes them at their word, but they only care about winning points in arguments. They’ll argue any position if they can twist it into sounding reasonable, and they’ll steal the language of liberation from the left to do so.

      Their singular principle is that entrenched power must defend itself, because they know benefits them directly. They sincerely don’t care about the second amendment; they don’t think it applies to everyone, only “real” Americans who look and act like white supremacists.