• psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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    We need to find some way to meet their needs that isn’t politics

    Uhh, an MMO where they can run around shooting at minorities and yelling racial epithets into their mics?

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      They’re scared. They are powerless to affect an uncertain future. They’ll get worse the longer they have to live like this. I guess we have to fix the world?

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          Yeah, and a drowning man needs to stop thrashing and pulling down his rescuers, but he’s fucking drowning.

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        They are easily scared you mean? For people who are so easily scared of everything, they sure seem to embrace guns and COVID like it’s their new Jesus.

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          Your false bravado isn’t fooling anyone. If you’re not scared, you should be. If you feel in control of your future 20 years from now, you’re lying to yourself.

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          An acquaintance of mine and I were discussing a physical altercation that occurred between him and a random other customer at a convenience store and the ubiquitousness of guns. A scary (jumpy;nervous) person with a firearm is perhaps more dangerous than the habitual criminal with a gun because they’re more likely to fire without reason.