this was always the reason for 2a: empowering white settlers to “defend” their land (stolen from indigenous people at gunpoint) and property (African slaves held in captivity at gunpoint).

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You didn’t, huh? Guess we know who to blame for everything then!

good for whom?

and Nazi Germany modeled its policies on US Indian removal. “Western civilization” is just white supremacist settler colonialism all the way down.

The first amendment still exists in the same sense it always did: to enshrine the “freedom” of those with power to exploit those without. Paper isn’t magic.

“The world”: