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The meme makes sense. I won't have a shitty day for you so instead of asking you to have one for me I'll just say have fun in your denialist echo chamber

If you're asking who I discuss things with: I'm happy to discuss things with everyone I have time for, which is typically everyone, period. However, it seems like experts are being driven to a level of isolation where I don't get to talk to many of them myself.

If you're asking if I'm an expert: sure, I have expertise in many topics.

Panel 1:

A lot of Republicans who are happy with their current gun access are scared of Democrats taking it away, and a lot of Democrats who are happy with their current vaccine access are scared of Republicans taking it away. Both sides notice each other having insane reactions when asked to defer to real experts on these topics.

Panel 2:

I'm not OK with how my access to firearms is unjustly restricted, violating my constitutional rights in the US, putting me and my loved ones in senseless danger, because Republicans go along with Democrats on that whenever the dollars say so. They don't see the problem with denialism when they're doing it themselves.

I'm not OK with how my access to vaccines is unjustly restricted, violating my constitutional rights in the US, putting me and my loved ones in senseless danger, because Democrats go along with Republicans on that whenever the dollars say so. They don't see the problem with denialism when they're doing it themselves.

Edit: rewritten to reflect my personal situation

I assume your goal with this comment was to annoy me, and you succeeded. Does that make you feel better about something wrong with your life? It's really sickeningly fucked up. I hate you and most humans for treating me this way.

What is a gun expert to you?

If I had used the term "gun expert," I would be asking what makes you think my definition of it is any different from the normal definition you'd get from looking up "gun" and "expert" in a dictionary.

People weirdly ask me questions like this when I'm using terms correctly, to try to imply I'm using the term incorrectly, but get out of having to actually explain the train of thought enough for it to hold up to scrutiny.

Since I didn't use the term "gun expert," I have to address all of the above, plus add that it's weird how you're injecting the whole question at random.

A person with a lot of guns?

It's especially weird that this is your first suggestion. Is this what you get by looking up "gun" and "expert" in your dictionary?

I guess people with a lot of guns probably have some expertise in them, typically, but why are you asking me and framing the question so weirdly?

Or does it require like an engineering degree.

Again, weird suggestion, bizarrely bypassing the obvious solution of consulting a dictionary.

Because the only firearms engineer I know absolutely supports sane gun control.

Don't blame your firearms engineer friend for your decision to waste my time with nonsense and annoy me, unless they were involved. Like, do you live in a world where "supporting sane gun control" is code for giving all your friends some batshit insane dictionary? I don't think your friend gave you some insane dictionary that supports the shit you typed here, and if they did, that's still got nothing to do with their position on gun control.

Anyway, "sane gun control" is gun control outside of the US, or gun control achieved through a constitutional amendment in the US. If your friend supports the unconstitutional gun control we have in the US, that's not sane, and I don't recognize them as the kind of expert who should have any say in who can have what guns.

Are you willing to double check what you just said and admit you're wrong, or are you just trying to gang up on me with cult mentality?

This is how much holding your hand through it I'm willing to do, even though I feel like I'm probably wasting my time:

• Replying to say you're wrong, it's easy to find out you're wrong, and you should correct yourself
• Suggesting some search queries for you: "ATF agents don't know how guns work," "Democrat politicians embarrass themselves talking about guns," etc.

This is a level of hand holding I'm not willing to do without more feeling that it wouldn't be a waste of time:

• ~~Spending several minutes to an hour delaying my own reply and other stuff I could be doing, to search the web for pretty common knowledge you're denying, and compile it for you~~

Edit - fuck it, I don't want to come off as an asshole or disrespect you too much. If you want me to refute you with evidence, just let me know if you prefer text or video format (I think it would be easiest to find a good video or two about this)

Yeah, it would be good if at least one of the two parties wasn't just "the corporatist party"

I have, but I haven't read the third eye yet

The original message is more like "think for yourself" / "respect people's rights" but I was trying to explain how my argument isn't just dumb edginess

Let me know what you initially thought after seeing it?

I think we have a society that prefers listening to money over discussing things with experts / researchers who focus on their field