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WhiskeyGrinder

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3. "Weapons like the one I carried in Afghanistan have no place on our streets or in our schools --

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed Aug 7, 2019, 08:28 AM

Aug 2019

least of all in the hands of white nationalists."

One could make the argument that white nationalism has been our policy in Afghanistan for like 15 years.

I'm not saying Buttigieg is a white nationalist. I'm saying I'm tired of him invoking his time in Afghanistan as if it were a "good war" that makes him an expert on which weapons are good and which are bad. U.S. imperialism is not a strong argument for gun control.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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"Weapons like the one I carried in Afghanistan have no place on our streets or in our schools -- WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2019 #3