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ICE is almost forcing citizens to carry guns wherever they go. Civil war could be back in play.
It's almost like the president is a Russian asset installed to split the country
Psh if you believe that just because they wrote it in a book and have been caught doing it multiple times then you're just an unfortunate victim of western propaganda.
/s if that wasn't obvious
On Lemmy, yes. On Facebook, not so much.
Idk I have accidentally stumbled into the wrong side of Lemmy where I was accused of being a liberal and banned for sharing Foundations of Geopolitics.
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Sounds like you wandered into ml
Unfortunately it was not, it was lefty memes on dbzer0.
More and more I'm finding that there's a fair bit of overlap between the two.
They are ml wearing a paper mask
Show of hands if you've ever been baselessly accused on Lemmy of being a liberal as if they go around beating up puppies.
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Which book?
I assume this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
That's the one!
One of the Michael Wolf ones maybe?
Yeah, it's almost like that...
"Every bad thing that ever happens in my utopian slave state is because of Russia. There is no way, that an american will ever do something against our most beautiful country without being a foreign asset."
While I do agree that the US did this to themselves, it is still obvious that Russia fully supports useful idiots in every country around the globe, to split and weaken the countries. In the US, it was Trump, in Germany it's the AfD. It is interesting to me that it's almost exclusively Nazis that betray their own contries because they love their ssugar daddy Putin so much.
Moscow Mitch McConnell… tulsi gabbard repeated Russian propaganda so much she got out in charge of handling it.
Yea it’s not well documented and incredibly obvious at this point, going back 15+ years. There’s no paper trails to follow or video evidence or military analysis on the topic at all. Totally made up. Comrade
Guns only work if you use them
To date, Americans still seem unwilling to fight back in a militant sense
I don't think pacifists should be arming up and shooting anyone. I think people who cling to their guns and talk about fighting for freedom need to nut up or shut up (and I'm fine with the latter, just shut up already).
I think this is naive. Violence is an incredibly effective tool at degrading organizational capacity, destroying institutional memory, and quelling public opposition.
When you're dealing with ICE agents who can cavalierly execute civilians in public, I would love all three of those things to befall them, because I don't want an organization with the capacity, the knowledge, and the public platform to execute my neighbors.
But insurgent violence comes with enormous personal risks, it requires professional training, and it rarely produces tangible results in a single lifetime (especially the lifetime of a militant insurgent). So I'm certainly not going to ask people to stick their necks out.
I just get tired of people posting TikToks in Camo Cosplay, pretending they're part of some Last Line of Defense Against Tyranny. You're bad liars. No serious person takes the 2nd amendment seriously as a political deterrent.
The systems are the people. And when you kick out a lynchpin - be it MLK or Charlie Kirk - that system can fail.
We've got people being rammed in their cars and shot gangland style through the windows.
Delta Force is snatching foreign presidents while the sitting president dismisses the need for next year's local elections.
You can only waggle your finger saying "It could get even worse" so many times.
I general strike would be a good first step. It would be very painful and risky given how many folks live paycheck to paycheck and how we have almost no social safety net, but it’s safer and more realistic than everyone trying to go full Rambo or Red Dawn.
Remember at the start of COVID when we didn’t know how it spread and people were disinfecting their groceries and the feds and the bosses wanted everyone to keep working? It was only when the flight attendants threatened to strike and shut down air travel that they finally relented.
Thank you for the kind thoughts. It’s been pretty rough lately. Try to keep your head up :)
Further proof the second amendment is not actually useful for preventing an oppressive government.
Just absurd to call it a "right" when nobody seriously believes the police will honor it. Less a civil liberty and more an excuse to ventilate your skull in a frenzied panic of gunfire.
The civil war already started. We are currently losing badly.
One side is trying to convince themselves that we’re not in a civil war and just an election away from getting everything back to normal. We’ve been in a cold civil war for at least a decade and it’s getting hot.
Cars are weapons. And you get a slap on the wrist instead of years in jail.
While I agree, I don't see how she would have been better off if carrying. In the end, if we all have guns, more of us are going to die than them. That said... I am thinking that getting a weapon if you can afford it, and afford to store it securely is a good idea.