Guns and butter

So:

First off I think people should, in general, be able to own guns.  A lot of other civilized countries with powerful economies and happy, healthy citizens don't let their citizens own guns, but I think we should.  So I shouldn't be accused of being a socialist.  Not that that has anything to do with gun rights, it's a completely unrelated thing.  Oh.  Ok, so now onto what I was going to talk about.

I'm sick of these bullshit scare tactics.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, these people oppose your right to bear arms - Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and.... BARACK OOOOBAMA!  DUN DUN DUN!!!!!  (based on a real internet graphic).

I'm going to take this apart piece by piece.

OK, so Vladimir Lenin was a communist.  So was Fidel Castro.  I guess.

Communism means, supposedly, communal ownership of all the nation's wealth, resources, etc.  And everyone just does something and trades for what they need, hopefully, ugh... which of course is completely ridiculous and could never work with humans, or really any life form that we know of (at least not without unlimited resources), as a result, no government that has claimed to be communist actually has been.  Like for example, Lenin and Castro, their governments seized control of a lot of peoples' and companies' property and claimed managerial power over major industries, but there were (are) definitely still rich people and poor people and certainly things weren't (aren't) being distributed evenly.  So it's bullshit communism.  Also Castro and Lenin were isolationists, especially Castro, who still won't let people into and out of his country.  Not exactly the way it is here, in America, where you can leave the country if you want and people are free to visit from other countries.  So, people not being allowed to own guns, well, they also didn't have a lot of other really ridiculously basic freedoms that we totally have and totally take for granted and really, I promise, aren't going anywhere.

Socialism is like communism light.  It means that "the state" owns the nation's industries and out-and-out manages the economy.  I guess "the state" roughly means "the government".  Hitler claimed to be a Socialist.  And his government certainly did seize control of all of the nation's industries.  BUT HE FUCKING DID THIS IN THE FURTHERANCE OF GENOCIDE!!!!  Hitler was basically a murderer of 10+ million people.  Maybe a lot more depending on how you think about it.  So, yeah, maybe that was socialism?  But really, more accurately, it was fascism and psychotic mass murder.  The government was controlling the nation's industries, but that was kind of the absolute least of Nazi Germany's problems.

Joseph Stalin and Idi Amin.  Two more fascist dictators.  (real quick - fascism is a type of government where the government controls EVERYTHING, like resources, industries, the economy, what people say and do, how much you can buy of something, what time you can be out until, what race you can be, you get the idea I hope) - Total egomaniacs who made a policy of fucking at least imprisoning and also murdering any people who spoke out against them publicly in huge numbers without any kind of judicial process.  Joseph Stalin could have very well ordered 20 million of his own people to die.  And Amin, like in the hundreds of thousands or more.  So he's kind of like a fart in the wind compared to Joseph Stalin.  Yet, still murdered way more of his own people than BARACK OBAMA!!  DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!!!!! *blackout*

So whatever.  First of all, Obama's not a communist or a socialist.  He's not a communist because communism isn't real, it's just a fun label power-trip leaders put on their countries so that they can seize more power and claim that whatever they're doing is for the sake of the people.  He's not a socialist because the government doesn't have really any say whatsoever in how our industries do business.  If you think this is false you are fucking stupid.  The government has "rules", like anti-pollution rules, or OSHA, or whatever, but they can't and don't fucking enforce them!!  And that's not going to change because the government doesn't have ENOUGH MONEY OR INFLUENCE to enforce them.  There's sign #1 that you don't live in a socialist country.  Or a communist country.

As far as managing the economy, we have like the Federal Reserve Bank, which can kind of influence the economy, but certainly can't control it, and its influence is like a fart in the wind compared to, say, the oil industry or something.  Pharmaceuticals.  Media.  And conservatives talk about it like it's the worst abomination in the history of the world.  It's a paltry safety net.  It absolutely can't support the economy under its own power, and it just can't seize assets and redistribute them wherever it feels like distributing them.  There's another sign you don't live in a communist, fascist, or socialist country!!!

Ok.  wait, guns?  Yeah.

So if you're allowed to own guns it's safe to say you probably don't live in a fascist, socialist, or communist country that we've seen.  But socialism, communism, or fascism don't necessarily mean disarming people.  You could have a fascist dictator that lets people keep their guns and isn't worried he will be overthrown.  Adolf Hitler actually handed out guns to a lot of his citizens as a last ditched effort to fight the Allies, including children, yadayadayada, suffice it to say I've read some books.

My point is that all this shit is fucking stupid.  Obama doesn't have, and hasn't tried to obtain, the level of control all these other leaders had over their people.  He just hasn't, and there is no real-life argument to refute that.  But it doesn't matter.  If you want to believe something you don't need reasons to believe it.

But here are my reasons for believing what I believe.  Which is that things aren't that bad and these dumb-asses need to chill the fuck out.  Or if things are bad, it's not for the reasons conservatives are citing, but rather because private interests (oil.  pharmaceuticals.  media.) have a broken ass amount of influence on our daily lives as citizens. So, you know, the opposite of that stupid bullshit.

Hey conservative politicians and voters!  FUCK YOU!!!  THANKS!!!