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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Don't buy from dealers that are casual about guns? If someone is braking that many laws at a time, they're a hazard. They're brandishing over text. That's up there with carrying too much, not following traffic laws, being loud, drinking and driving, using radio scanners, etc...

A good dealer will pull up in a Toyota cammery outside of InnOut, looking like your dad.

Some dealers will he also be legit, but rob people they don't know. This would be the perfect way to have a gun out and rob them while they're calm. You were dumb enough to show up; now you're a target.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Never played the game. But, one gets quite an education in prison.

Some dealers will he also be legit, but rob people they don't know. This would be the perfect way to have a gun out and rob them while they're calm. You were dumb enough to show up; now you're a target.

Nailed it. But, this audience doesn't want the truth of things. They want to feel comfortable in their lukewarm understanding.

I suggest that you pick an individual worthy of your investment in real life. Or, if that's not a thing, PM me and we'll talk meta.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The "radical neoliberal" radically clings to the short term comfort of bandwagon neoliberalism. While their lives are more expensive and more comfortable than someone in effective poverty, both live effectively paycheck to paycheck.

Only if some event beyond the radical neoliberal's control happens, such as getting fired, might they experience poverty and prison. If we tell them this truth it forces them to perceive how dangerous the unrestrained bull market is as it runs loose in our collective fiscal china store. That doesn't at all align with the radical neoliberal's current ideology: "Be shallowly psycologically comforted by DNC POTUS marketing material. Hostility is warranted in rejection of all that does not provide comfort."

The experience of prison and poverty is prerequisite to the radical neoliberal's understanding it. Hypothetical unwarranted imprisonment isn't an ethical means to any end.

The only proactive and ethical means for anyone without experience to understand poverty and prison is empathetically in the context of an existing relationship.