Guns, Republicans and "manliness": We all suffer from the right's mental health crisis

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Guns, Republicans and "manliness": We all suffer from the right's mental health crisis
salon.com

Republican men seem massively troubled about their masculinity — and that's literally causing death and suffering

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It's so irritating that left-of-center publications always go all-in on anti-gun sentiment, while believing that a police state is going to save people. News flash: it won't. Cops don't care about you and have no responsibility to do anything to help you, or to prevent violence against you. Cops are often the ones involved in protecting the people on the right that use violence to suppress people on the left.

For fucks sake, we literally saw a full year of violence by police against peaceful BLM protestors that just want to stop extrajudicial police killings; we caw cops turn protests into riots, and then use the riots as their excuse for using more violence.

I reject their authoritarian leanings, in the same way that I reject the authoritarian bullshit from Republicans.

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