Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Why is it so hard... [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)The two organizations are exactly the same when it comes to social responsibility and integrity, which is to say they both have none.
You characterize the VPC as representing a group of lovely human beings, "believing that things have gotten out of hand. A bunch of well meaning people, who politely listen and applaud survivors and surviving family members of gun violence" while you characterize the NRA as an "insidious" organization that produces "bullshit propaganda". That kind of emotional embroidery is exactly what we pay both organizations to produce.
Check out this picture:
What do you see here? Some sort of political rally? That's not what the NRA and the VPC see. They see a gigantic pool of emotional energy just waiting to be tapped. They don't care about right or wrong, life or death. The only thing they care about is the production of a message they can sell to all those people. We've always been at war with East Asia. The great ideological battles of our time are just struggles for corporate market share.
Guns don't matter. Sexual orientation doesn't matter. Gender doesn't matter. Race doesn't matter. Religion doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is the one thing the 1% has been stealing from us for three generations: money. That's how they win. They can work both sides of the ideological street by selling our beliefs to us no matter what we believe. It costs just as much to walk down one sidewalk as the other, and all the money goes into the same pocket. Don't believe me? Check it out:
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