The NRA, Putin and White Nationalism

[Lexicus]

@Lexicus has always been better able to explain why the government doesn't really need taxes or money for its power than me, and George Orwell did a pretty good job explaining the psychology of power.

It's less that the government doesn't need taxes or money, than that taxes and money are devices by which governments compel people to obey them. They are a manifestation or consequence of a state's rule over territories and people.

Slavery folds as soon as things get complicated...

It just gets more sophisticated. There are methods of control considerably more advanced than the whip.

 

[Cassius Critzer]

@Ajidica
The bolded part is intentional on his part.

I never made a claim as to what the links said. You presumed I was saying some link supported some post.

The point was made that both links are accurate and fact based,not rants about Pizzagate of all things.

I generally look for accurate links.

If I say, this link supports my post, as I did on the Viet Cong, then you will read just that.

I did not say that the NRA was some big tent...and here these links prove it. I wrote they were fact based.

On the other hand, within the body of another post, I discussed the historical assistance by the NRA working with African Americans and included a link.

History is complicated. No organization does one thing, but it is dynamic. It was this way at one time, then another way another time. Here is a link by independent observers and here is their present day analysis.

Stop thinking in such black and white terms.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That's cute

 

[Cassius Critzer]

For example, I was just discussing the diversity with the NRA and the Democrats. People are NOT all cookie cutter clones within any monolithic organization. Thus some gun owner or some hunter may not agree with official policy, but they want a political action committee to ensure gun control is defeated. Heck, they could be Socialist as a member of the NRA but want the right to own and bear arms.

Define Far Right. Trump is not Far Right. Neither is he a Republican. Neither is he a RINO. This is why he has trouble as who does he represent? If you actually look at it, he echoes Labor Democratic policy from long ago. Why? Because he is 71. What you presume is far right is not.

 

[Cassius Critzer]

Those links don't seem to say what you seem to think they say.
For example, the Business Insider link highlights how the NRA vastly outspends gun-control groups and the top 81 recipients in congress of NRA funds are all Republicans. The Pew Research link shows that NRA members don't just skew right, they skew hard right and are less supportive of "bipartisan" gun control measures than non-NRA member Republicans.

If you are trying to paint the NRA as some sort of big-tent group trying to protect the interests of sportsmen and hunters, the links you provided simply don't support that.

And where in my post do I make any of those claims? All I said was that they were factual analysis, nothing more. You are presuming that I am stating a static version of the NRA and that every post of mine are all discussing the same aspect. They are not.

In fact, in the post of mine you quoted, there are none of the claims made in your post. None.

It is as if you are not reading.