I don't care what anyone says or what happens. I'll neither lay down my arms, nor relinquish my natural right to defend myself with those arms. Guns rights are civil rights, and human rights. Shall. Not. Be. Infringed.
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I really need to rant about something that's been getting on my nerves. NPC black folks especially are gonna be triggered but at this point I don't care. This needs to be said. 1/x
There are several problems with this mentality. First of all, I'm an individual before anything else, so fuck this "the rest of us" collectivist bullshit. I am under no obligation to think the same way as people who look like me. I can think for myself. 10/x
Well, that's it. It's Friday, and I wanna have a good day today. I just needed to get this off my chest. In conclusion: groupthink is stupid and destructive, pedophilia should not be enabled at all, and you are all loved. Thank you for coming to my HEX Talk.
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I'm black (well, I was before the 2020 election, π), and grew up black dominated areas, so I saw this shit firsthand. If you even so much as ask the "wrong" questions, you were called a coon, Uncle Tom, etc. and ostracized. 8/x
I don't know where we went wrong, but we've forsaken morality and merit for... virtue signal points? On top of that, we demonize people who ask questions? This timeline is literal Hell. 19/x
In regards to Jackson, when the defending pedophiles thing came out, people either pretended it didn't happen for made excuses for it. I don't care who you are. I don't want someone with a history like that having a seat on the highest court in the country. 17/x
Second, it's ironic when people like this say things like "he thinks he knows better than the rest of us". He's saying that while berating Scott for voting the way he did. *This* clown is the one who thinks he knows better than someone else. Not Scott. 11/x
There's your recap and context. Time to dig in.
There's this mentality that's pervasive in the "black community", that *no matter what*, all black people have to throw their support behind any black person doing anything, especially in politics. 7/x
Addendum: The icing on the cake for me is that me, a black man, was (currently still am at the time of me writing this) in Virginia, the birthplace of American gun control, doing exactly what those laws were written to stop: keeping and bearing arms.
This also extends to when that tribe member fucks up. While the hearings were going on, it was revealed that Jackson had a history of defending pedophiles -- some of the worst people on the planet. 14/x
I think she was picked just because she's a black woman and it lets them check some boxes off, as has become commonplace almost everywhere. Like I said though, to a lot of people, that doesn't matter. All that matters is supporting the member of the "tribe." 13/x
There are 3 Black men in the U.S. Senate, 1 of them, Tim Scott voted no on confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
There is always one of us, who thinks they know better than the rest of us Black folks. His no vote is a disgrace.
Yea I said it.
Now, if you're someone who identifies with whatever tribe, and are honest, I would think that if another member of your tribe were to start fucking up in some way, you and the rest of the tribe would hold them accountable. 15/x
Well, if you're of the mentality that I've been railing against in this thread, you don't do that. You either pretend they never fucked up, or make excuses for them. Hell, people still make excuses for Obama. 16/x
If you look at the seventh Tweet in this thread, you'll see that I put asterisks around the phrase "no matter what". This leads to my third issue. First, I personally don't think she was picked because she was qualified for the role in any meaningful way. 12/x
Jackson is currently a federal judge on the US Court of Appeals in DC. She is also a black woman (though I'll need a biologist to confirm that for me). Normally I wouldn't point stuff like that out but it's relevant to my rant. 3/x
When people like myself and others say that gun control has historically been racist, we're not lying, and we're not trying to emotionally manipulate people like our opposition loves to do. It really is, and we have receipts to back it up.
When it started making the rounds that he voted Nay, he got shit from a lot of people in the "black community" (I'm really not a fan of that term, but I digress). They felt like he should have voted in favor of the confirmation solely because she's black. 6/x
The first gun control law that was enacted on this continent was in the colony of Virginia, in 1640 (I've also seen like three other dates, so this one has been hard to nail down). It said verbatim that negroes, neither slave nor free man, cannot own firearms.
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Increase forced child labor in Africa for more lithium for electric cars that the electric grid can't handle, all whole banning sustainable forms of energy like nuclear power and oil.
Around the time of the Civil War, many states enacted "Slave Codes," which were laws designed to restrict and control the slave population as much as possible. Slave Codes varied from state to state, but one common trend was the further restriction of firearm ownership.
The Senate confirmation is the important one. The final vote was 53-47. One of those 47 is a Senator from South Carolina named Tim Scott, who's a Republican, *and* black (again, this is relevant to the rant). 5/x
To get everyone up to speed about what's been going on, and to provide some context for the rant, I'm gonna recap some recent events.
Months ago, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced that he'll be retiring, and Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson for the role. 2/x
However long ago it was (I can't even find it now) she was confirmed by the House of Representatives, and yesterday she was confirmed by the Senate. 4/x
Before Black History Month comes to a close, I'd like to take a second to honor all the black folk who ain't black anymore because they didn't vote for Joe Biden.