I’m thinking that if ICE et al keeps this up, pretty soon random people are gonna start taking sneaky potshots at them. Amongst many, many other things, these dipshits are actively making their own jobs wildly more dangerous.

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Get your shit together

Ok so far…

Arkansas

Oooh good luck with that

lol bro a mod is gonna remove that at least

Not to mention, they definitely offed a whistleblower. The guy specifically told his family and friends that he was not suicidal, and had no intent whatsoever to take his own life… and then is found dead after missing a testimony date.

So yes, but:

The initial phase would be extremely bloody and a lot of civilians would be killed.

But in the long run, one of the meaningful changes brought about by all that killing would be the formation of a hardcore, no-compromise mosaic of resistance organizations. And a lot of them will probably come from blue states. And a lot of those blue states have a lot of very smart people. And smart, angry people are very, very fucking effective - especially if they’re good at playing the long game.

Or, more succinctly: I genuinely do hope the NG officers mutiny if they get orders to fire on civilians - or failing that, that the E4 mafia actually rises up and frags the compromised officers with prejudice, because that’s effectively the army rank-and-file in open rebellion.

And, lest you be disheartened by the shitshow that recently went down at fort bragg: they had to curate those grunts. They vetted them for appearance (whiteness, and apparently also not being fat…?) and political allegiance (yes, really; yes, thats against regulations; no, it’s never happened before), so the (frankly tepid quantity of) cheering at orangeboi’s fascistic nationalism word salad shouldn’t, imo, be taken too seriously as a real barometer of the vibe in the military right now.

Yeah, when you can knock out a bridge by whacking a few nearly rusted-out I-beams, you may want to rethink your strategic readiness vis a vis armed resistance movements

If the military lines up behind the fascists, they’ll be facing an insurgency the likes of which the world has never seen. You think Ukraine is being sneaky with their (granted, very impressive) covert ops in Russia? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

They’re basically setting things up such that something will happen. It’s more or less a nationwide, institutionalized police riot. And it’s entirely by design. They are wildly overreaching and doing indefensible, clearly illegal things because they want someone to get pushed too far and respond violently, and they’ll use that (frankly pretty rational, under the circumstances) pushback as carte blanche to take the gloves off and start shooting people.

Tangentially, I hope that that’s the point where the national guard switches sides and starts shooting at ICE.

Oh hell yeah. That sweet/savory got me all

Or even just the tip, just to see how it feels

Tribunal of Six:

yOu CAn’T dO ThaT BeCauSe mONeY iS SpeEcH

Side note: fuck the ACLU for using a deeply and fundamentally flawed argument to defend and support the Citizens United ruling. I stopped donating to them when I learned about that years ago.

Did you get the memo?

Maybe, maybe not.

What’s way weirder is that he’s got zero flaps and gear is still down, which is the exact opposite of what you want to do when climbing out. Maybe pilot error (control inversion)?

If it’s heat or power or water in the dead of winter, 2 days is frankly extremely generous.

Same lol

One way or another, I feel like we’re all gonna see the answer to that question before this bullshit settles down in any meaningful way

You can have your immunity from lawsuits. It won’t stop the blue shells.

Send more blue shells.