Having a good family and social circle is basically the most important part of being ready to have kids

Well, bad news for you there, too: since we’re all busy working and commuting and moving states for jobs and our third places are disappearing for various reasons, because our connections have moved globally online instead of locally offline, we are all further away from our families of origin and have smaller social circles to help support our physical lives.

Not the best example. Right-wing gun nuts are cop-adjacent if not cops themselves. Let’s see how an amed BLM or antifa or anti-ICE rally goes.

It is kind of amusing how, “You guys are knee jerking your reactions instead of looking at the issue carefully” gets the knee jerk upvotes here.

I’m wondering if we just have a gun registration program and a ban on inheriting guns, so nobody would have to give up their own guns, just their dead parents’ guns.

I have to factor into my interactions with people if they have a gun.

Yes, there’s a huge difference between only rarely seeing a gun in public and acting as if nobody has one.

So what you’re really arguing for is mass gun confiscation. I will subscribe to that newsletter gladly.

Where I’ve been to protests which had hired security guards packing guns protecting protesters

hwat

i think you just discombobulated my brain

What is this concept? Who does this? Where?

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Surprised nobody’s volunteered to write the English caption yet.

Are you counting the Eastern Empire? There’s an argument that our view of “Rome” is obnoxiously Eurocentric. The economic lifeblood of the Empire was mostly outside of Western Europe, and lots of wheat from Egypt.

Meanwhile, Kevin: