We’ll hold our own elections, with blackjack and hookers

How about Las Masqueras Negras. El Bloc Negro.

Will probably just escalate even more.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/08/sliwa-faces-of-torrent-of-political-outrage-after-times-square-migrant-fiasco/

The guardian angels are just different pieces of shit

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I have no idea how not a single ICE agent has been killed yet?
Apparently the good guy with a gun is a myth.

I am low key shocked that some group of vigilantes hasn’t straight up ambushed a pack of ICEheads yet.

and people are not suicidal.

Citation needed

I won't comment on whether political violence is the right thing to do, but if you think the civil rights movement was peaceful you've been taught some disgustingly whitewashed history. Ever heard of the Black Panthers? They got in firefights with the police all the time, even though many would later pretend that MLK was the only and unanimous voice for all of America's oppressed.

Also the whole Civil Rights movement can be traced to the Civil War, instigated in part by people like John Brown whose whole thing was massacring slavers in the name of God.

This rewriting of history of America as a nation of peaceful citizens who got their Rights by Asking Nicely fucking pisses me off.

I tell you what the real myth is. Thinking they need violence to declare martial law. They clearly don't. So that's an argument people need to stop making.

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that resonated with me "Stop pretending your racism is patriotism"

It reminded me of something an African American woman said to me during college more than 20 years ago "I always watch out for people that love to fly the American flag because you never know what that really means."

And beyond racism it is happening in blue cities.

His supporters are primed to think that cities are dangerous places already, and that a city led by liberals is in shambles, and that all the people living there are lawless liberals that deserve punishment.

They are cheering about this because they see it as sending their troops to go hurt others. Whether those people are other because of their race, their religion, their gender, their sexuality, or their political beliefs.

And when these same people find out that something about them or a loved one makes them other they will act shocked. They will protest that they aren’t an other they are in the in-group.

And then they will learn the true nature of fascism. The in-group is constantly shrinking, because there must always be an other to blame. And they will learn that lesson too late.

That's what the 2a is for. Resistance.

I am an American "person of color" (gods, what stupid phrase... fuck this newspeak) who owns firearms (at home; I live abroad currently).

Here's the exact verbiage of the 2nd Amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Interpret that as thou wilt; we've been arguing about it since about 1791.

For what it's worth, I'd amend the amendment to include this snippet from Marx, just to confuse us all even more:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

That only has screenshots and a link to Instagram which wants me to sign in 😢

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Organized federal financed paramilitary units with a hierarchy and a support structure and a multi-billion dollar PR budget are going to outperform random disconnected vigilantes who are too afraid to so much as wave at one another.

This is the same problem the Spanish Anarchists had against Franco. Its the problem German and Italian Communists had against the Fascist/Monarchist alliance. It's the problem the French Resistance had against the Nazi occupation and the Hamas / Hezbollah resistance has had against the IDF.

Simply owning a firearm isn't enough. You need a community of like-minded people operating in concert towards a recognized goal. That's the difference between the Vietcong and Ruby Ridge. That's what separates successful insurgencies from "lone wolf waterboarded to death in Gitmo blacksite".

Joining the Nazis.

The ones with guns are mostly just cheering them on from the sidelines

That's because the majority of them are fascists. What happened to American exceptionalism? It never existed. it's a nation of soft wanna be humans disguised as capitalists.

Not in Connecticut. That's the point.

The vast majority of the gun freaks are on their side.

many of us have mental illnesses that would put us or others in danger if we had a gun. trust me, i believe in arming ourselves, especially minorities, but what if one day i have no impulse control and shoot myself? im at a loss.

Blue states have encouraged disarming while the red are stockpiling. Wonder who ICE are targeting....