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"I'm a gun owner. Tim Walz is a gun owner. If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot." Harris told Oprah. (hexbear.net)

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“I’m a gun owner; Tim Walz is a gun owner,” Harris said.

“I did not know that,” Winfrey replied.

“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot,” Harris added. “Probably should not have said that. But my staff will deal with that later.”

The article has a video clip. I love the bullshit "probably..." It's a 100% certainty she spoke with her staff and workshopped the phrasing and presentation of gun stuff. Plus I bet she practiced her lines. No American politician is going to wing it when talking about guns.

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[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 30 points 13 hours ago

I have a hypothesis that burgerland's "everyone should own a gun and be ready to use it at the drop of a hat" culture was cultivated as part of the white yeoman farmer ideal so that the burger regime could offload as much of the genocide work as possible onto the average settler. I think you're more spot on than you intended.

[-] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 9 hours ago

That and to keep the slaves in line.

[-] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 hours ago

That's literally what happened lmao

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 29 points 13 hours ago

was cultivated as part of the white yeoman farmer ideal so that the burger regime could offload as much of the genocide work as possible onto the average settler.

This is not a theory really, if you look into Hitler's whole "generalplan ost" thing he planned to have nazi settlers set up farmsteads and do "defend their land" type shit. It all makes perfect sense ngl.

[-] rentasonder@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If I remember Settlers right, Sakai basically says that.

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago

One of the best kind of leftist moments is when you come to a conclusion you think is original only to find out someone discovered it decades ago and put it better than you ever could.