Wiki says

The ostensible impetus for the National Firearms Act of 1934 was the gangland crime of the Prohibition era, including the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, and the attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933

No but also yes

Many people fought and died for those things

Tbf this is less stealing and more skewing it to be less democratic

Potato, potato

This explains a lot of it: https://www.vote.org/save-act/

The reason Trump/repubs want it is because the main effect will be to reduce the number of left-wing voters so that they can steal the upcoming elections.

The patriot act was reversed?

He’s a solid #2

He seems to be pretty cool with supporting a genocide now

TIL… Had no idea white socks were not the norm everywhere for casual dress.

To add to this, I’m pretty sure throwing it at the backboard would count as losing possession, so you could dribble again afterwards.

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I agree, I would use a capital when writing about “the Black community”. Otherwise it would be lowercase (“a black person/a white person”)

It’s really not integral or important to my life. Maybe you can pay for it for me

Roughly 10% of all electricity isn’t that much?

All technology from this point on will be a grift, because the grifters have all the power.

Regardless of your privacy choices, if you are using a shared login, that activity is connected with your broader profile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk7JuqsQKV8

He has an uncanny valley look to him. I think the dark eyes and crappy haircut are part of it. And his general awkwardness. But also a lot of it is influenced by his actions, ie. the way you can feel everything he says is a sleazy lie as he works to invade your privacy. He doesn’t have a sleek salesman demeanor to help smooth it over.

Always on for everything