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And here I thought the NRA was only about guns. They have a whole hateful alt right agenda they're pushing thru demonization of liberals and paranoia against the mainstream..

There's only one thing worse than paranoia, and that's paranoia with a loaded gun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrnIVVWt...e=youtu.be

Notice how you haven't refuted any of those claims.
The leftist media has been caught in too many lies to bother mentioning at this point.
And notice how you're paranoid about guns when it only mentions using the truth to fight.
If you're that paranoid about the truth, maybe you should arm yourself.

Quote:!f you're that paranoid about the truth, maybe you should arm yourself.

LOL! I'm not the one encouraging people to arm up against some massive liberal conspiracy with their alleged "violence of lies" that encourages riots and brick throwing.

(Mar 4, 2018 11:09 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]And here I thought the NRA was only about guns. They have a whole hateful alt right agenda they're pushing thru demonization of liberals and paranoia against the mainstream.. There's only one thing worse than paranoia, and that's paranoia with a loaded gun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrnIVVWt...e=youtu.be

TRIVIA: Dana Loesch's ambiguous "they" word has a usage history going back to Cold War days and beyond. Popular in the TV and movie scripts of the era, presumably as a way to avoid directly mentioning ___, ___, or ___.

Isaac Asimov used it several times in the first chapter of his paperback novelization of a 1966 movie. There are the normal occurrences of "they" and then the capitalized references to "They" and "Them": Fantastic Voyage - C1.

Incidentally, in the book Asimov was bright enough to have the remains of the submarine Proteus removed from Dr Bene along with crew. Whereas in the film they left the matter of the miniaturized ship behind with respect to being gobbled-up by the white blood cells. Matter which still would have expanded to normal size after the 60 minutes -- destroying both Bene's body as well the operating room and crushing any adjacent chambers.


Alyssa Milano (Verified account @Alyssa_Milano):

Hey, @NRA! I am a gun owner and I am appalled by that hate propaganda video you released. You are failing your members & the country. ... 5:11 PM - 29 Jun 2017

Dana Loesch - National Rifle Association videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Loesc...ion_videos

Loesch was featured in an online video published by the National Rifle Association in April 2017. In the video, Loesch talked about an unspecified "they" and depicted protests against Donald Trump in a negative light. She went on to say, "... They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again. And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance... To smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law-abiding – until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness... The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom, is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth..."

The video caused some controversy and was condemned by some commentators. DeRay Mckesson, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, said that the ad was "an open call to violence to protect white supremacy". Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for President Obama, called the video "revolting and frightening". U.S. Senator Chris Murphy said, "I think the NRA is telling people to shoot us. Now might be the right time to cancel your membership." Conservative columnist Anne Applebaum said that it called on Americans "to arm themselves to fight liberals. Violence is coming". An online petition calling for the video to be removed from Facebook said, "The video tries to create an 'us-vs-them' narrative and pit Americans against one another. It paints liberals as liars and as violent, unruly protesters who law-abiding gun owners need protection from."

Loesch defended the ad, saying that it condemned rather than condoned violence. She stated, "There was nowhere in this video... where I called for anyone to move toward violence, to silence anyone, or where I called for anyone to even pick up a firearm and enact violence."

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Anyone can infer nefarious intonation to any use of "they".

Alyssa Milano has also claimed "There are no background checks on long guns (AR15s) in Texas." http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...long-gun-/
She also implied the 2nd Amendment was obsolete by saying "Things change, y'all." https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/20/a...-horrible/
Or claiming the "NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment" ( https://twitter.com/alyssa_milano/status...2348541952 ), because apparently they have that much pull on the Supreme Court ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_o..._v._Heller ).

(Mar 5, 2018 01:34 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:!f you're that paranoid about the truth, maybe you should arm yourself.

LOL! I'm not the one encouraging people to arm up against the massive liberal conspiracy with their "violence of lies" that encourages riots and brick throwing.

Neither did that NRA ad, except to paranoid loon bags.

Quote:Neither did that NRA ad,

The NRA thrives on fear and self-victimization and paranoia against mainstream culture. They encourage the same rightwing hater agenda that gun nuts have who shoot up mosques and concerts and gay nightclubs and schools. It's us against this ambiguous "Them"---the omnipresent elitist liberal intelligensia of schools, Hollywood, the music industry, the mainstream media, science, and the federal government that threatens their property and gun rights. It's pure manipulative demogoguery in the service of the billion dollar gun lobby.

(Mar 5, 2018 08:47 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]The NRA thrives on fear and self-victimization and paranoia against mainstream culture. They encourage the same rightwing hater agenda that gun nuts have who shoot up mosques and concerts and schools. It's us against this ambiguous "Them"---the omnipresent elitist liberal intelligensia of schools, Hollywood, the music industry, the mainstream media, science, and the federal government that threatens their property and gun rights. It's pure manipulative demogoguery in the service of the billion dollar gun lobby.

You're an ignorant, partisan bigot. We don't know the political/ideological affiliation of most mass shooters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...317cb4352c
Most seem to have personal, rather than political, motives.
The Congressional baseball game shooter was definitely a politically-motivated Democrat.

Quote:We don't know the political/ideological affiliation of most mass shooters.

They're all anti-social gun nuts with assault rifles and kevlar vests. If that's not the paranoid anti-mainstream NRA ideology, I don't know what is.



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...54451.html

https://www.theroot.com/new-mexico-schoo...1821322912

https://www.metro.us/news/the-big-storie...-trump-fan

And? Many mass shooters have been leftist darlings, Muslims. Does that accrue to all Muslims, or their leftist allies, the way you seem to imagine it does to Republicans?
What about the verified Democrat shooters accruing to all Democrats?

You're just a transparently partisan bigot.

Quote:Many mass shooters have been leftist darlings, Muslims

Actually a Muslim jihadist would be rightwing---a religious fundamentalist. So you lose again.