The or was more from hope at this point, honestly. Although we really need a first-world free nation to stop that El Salvador shit. Unfortunately, that will probably be the trigger for WWIII the morons in the US federal government are hoping for.

To add on to what @[email protected] and @[email protected] said, the primary use-case for personal firearms in the US outside of hobby/hunting in day-to-day is self-defense, and as a last resort.

Even with a concealed carry permit, most states’ concealed carry laws state that you can only use your weapon if you have no method of retreat, and retreat should always be the first option. (Rightly so.)

Second problem that this seething pile of shit administration has created, is even if you were cornered, no way out, and used a gun to defend yourself, as soon as they say (real, fake, made up, or retroactively) “oh that was a Federal agent” you’re now looking at having to deal with the Federal “justice” system, which is currently a big lying pile of shit that does whatever it wants with no regard for any life. (State and local laws are, for the most part, still functioning correctly.)

So basically, a death-and/or-El-Salvador concentration camp sentence for the person-that-would-be-helping.

Signing up as a rogue citizen to defend others, as a firearm owner, is at minimum legal fees, possible loss of firearms, possible jail time, or these days, possible disappearing.

You basically have to be in a mental state of writing off your own life to do such an act. If we are at that point, we’re probably in civil war.

There’s not cowboy justice in modern America, most of the time, surprisingly. Only Federal cowboy injustice.

Closest that could be maybe done is if a group of armed citizens in a state where open-carry is legal set up groups to protect those being targeted by the Nazis just outside the legal land boundary of the courts. Specifically because officers (read: thugs) are trained to shoot first and ask questions later. You’d need a mass of armed citizens, not touching their firearms, so the thugs know they’re outnumbered and no matter how tiny-penis-brain they are, they know they’ll probably come out dead if they escalate. Still very risky, could easily escalate as the thugs are also trained to purposely aggravate citizens so the citizens will make a mistake and the thugs can “apply the law” (do whatever they want with no consequences) as they see fit. This would be the tipping point Mango Mussolini wants to declare Martial Law across the US, and then we’re back to the civil war thing. All the rules change at that point, and the perceived “authority” that the ICE cowards think they have disappears, but we’re also looking at massive loss of life, no matter how it plays out. Unlike the Nazis, most Americans value life.

It sucks, right? When a majority of a country follows its laws, but they’re dealing with human trash in power that can mutate it at-will with almost god-mode powers, it becomes infinitely more complex to save the People and Democracy. They’ve done a good job stacking the deck in favor of Tyranny.

Problem is, CA is doing their own version of wacky insanity. Newsom is nuts. The Land of Liberals hates homeless, is losing empathy in a different direction, it’s really weird.

Secede.

It’s cool that most American jobs tend to have a mediocre pay raise that barely keeps up with inflation. Couple that with increasing accelerated cost of everything multiple times (most recent big jumps, Pandemic, end-of-pandemic-fake-price-hike-for-alleged-still-supply-chain-disruptions-moneygrab, runaway inflation from Mango Mussolini 1.0, now all the stuff from Mango 2.0, insurance rate jumps due to climate change) and even a tiny 6% pay raise is still a pay cut (if one is lucky to even see a pay rase.)

CLEAN COAL thank you very much. (/s)

We are idiots.

You give them too much credit. More like, type to an LLM:

“Hey ai, here is an mbox file full of e-mail from people. Find all the names and make a table of names and email addresses.” uploads file

“Hey muskrat, we got the list of people to deport!”

Mango Mussolini’s dream team is using “AI” to do all their decisions and data processing, and they’re too fucking dumb (and don’t give a shit) to realize that it constantly makes mistakes and can’t be trusted for shit. Their jobs are “easier” because of it, the outcomes don’t affect them anyway since they live in an alternate reality bubble, and they can claim they’re “doing something” while really just having taxpayers pay them to golf.

Also fuck self check outs.

Oh man, seriously, I figured they’d at least get “smarter” or better or…anything in the last 24 years of stores running away with self-checkout. They’ve become functionally worse. I was with someone buying some food at a Kroger store one day and they now have ML cameras everywhere watching what you do. We were efficiently firemen’s-carrying the food items, so first person grabs item, scans it, hands to second person, second person bags it.

Stupid machine thought we were trying to pocket stuff even though all hands were in plain view from multiple angles. Person had to come over, hit a button, make it review slowed down video footage, and then it allowed us the luxury of scanning and paying for our groceries ourselves.

In general, middle fingers to all of them. If you’re going to replace human checkout with automated checkout, the onus is on you to deal with “shrinkage”/shoplifting. The customer’s experience should be as buttery-smooth and painless as possible if you’re going to make them work for you. Otherwise, you’re going to piss them off and make them want to shoplift.

Stopped shopping at Kroger. (As well as Target obv.)

So, like the usual double-speak rhetoric from this party, just gotta invert what he says:

Elmo Muskrat pays for protestors, and is sad that his paid protestors aren’t as effective as real ones.

They’re so tone-deaf and under-educated, they have no clue that the things they say are not only lacking in humor, but lacking in any connection to reality, humanity, and they don’t even understand the concept of empathy.

That administration and their remaining followers have no value for life of any kind.

We can’t forget that.