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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert, “Letter to Louise Colet.”
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
However, unfortunately we are not all in this state of happiness, so we have a question and a new perspective. But if you ignore that, it's also easier.
It seems reasonable to posit that the assassination of the presidential candidate will have no influence on the current gun legislation.
Let us consider an alternative perspective. We may now be of the opinion that it would be beneficial for all members of society to procure firearms and ammunition in substantial quantities.
One might inquire as to why, if Project 2025 is to be implemented, it should not be accompanied by a robust resistance to deportations.
It is evident that criminal gangs are already armed. This observation does not pertain to the militias on the political right, but rather to Latin American and medieval gangs with American passports.
It would undoubtedly be entertaining to rid the country of a significant portion of its citizenry, deemed undesirable, if they were to be armed to the teeth.
Moreover, Trump himself has previously asserted that blood will flow if he is not elected. We assume that even if he is elected, he will not object to the shedding of blood.
Therefore, we call upon all liberals and Democrats, and we do not refer to members of the Democratic Party, but rather to those who stand behind the cause of democracy, to arm themselves.
Learning from history means that when the bad guys threaten violence and overthrow, the good guys have to be armed pacifists.
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There is, of course, a more prosaic approach: one must simply vote and choose reason over hatred. This will prevent the country from descending into a dictatorship.
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“She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.”
— Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (via unejeunedemoiselle)