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Buy a gun and fight for your life or you’ll die in prison.

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If it comes down to that, we’ve already lost.

Right now, I’d advise people to do as much outreach as possible to people you know. If you’re on commercial social media, post a screenshot, put the link in a comment. Send a DM. Put up stickers.

Building the level of support that would be necessary to win a revolution likely makes nonviolent paths such as impeachment possible.

The guns are to prevent violent suppression of that public support. Not as a first choice.

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The guns are to prevent violent suppression of that public support.

That’s one part of it, but also people should be defending themselves and their communities from ICE and one way to do that is guns. When an ICE agent is arresting your neighbor the correct option isn’t to preach nonviolence, but to pull the damn trigger.

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In practice, what I’ve seen people do is to use large crowds. I haven’t yet seen any overt use of guns for that kind of defense.

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That’s remarkably hard to do in any kind of reliable way. ICE snatches are fast, and the odds of being there with a gun and recognizing what’s going on are low. The odds of shooting somebody by mistake are high.

To date things like handing out red cards has been far more effective

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8 points

Damn right. “Please don’t arrest me, I was born here” depose.

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It’s not about winning. It’s about resisting. You don’t only resist when you have good odds of winning. The people that fought the Warsaw ghetto uprising knew they would die. It is better to die taking down a few Nazis then to die on their terms.

TLDR: Get a gun. Fuck ICE. They’re Nazis.

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20 points

“Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

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“We’ve tried nothing and…”

I’m not exactly the most active person. Not been to protests here in Canada but I do vote and all that. But ya know what I don’t do? I don’t actively discourage people from protecting themselves.

You have already lost. The question is whether or not you’re willing to fight back and win in round two.

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10 points

Centrists like you got us here. Status quos. Call your rep. Go chant in a circle and pray for a better life.

See where that got us? Don’t like being shot at? Don’t be a cunt.

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6 points

Realistically the lazy, stupid, and fascism supporters got us here.

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10 points

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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4 points

If it comes down to that

another move of the goal post

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30 points

Let’s be honest. If they come for you, you’re going. Still, take someone with you on the way out.

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19 points

Pretty much. If you’re gonna die either way, might as well make it an even trade.

Melt the ICE.

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12 points

Oh for sure. I’m not Rambo. I’m just a biter.

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4 points

It depends on how many neighbors turn out to help them.

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I just don’t feel comfortable bringing a gun into my house. I don’t think I stand a chance against 10 automatic-wielding ICE agents.

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12 points

When the law break in How you gonna go? Shot down on the pavement Or waiting in death row

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4 points

You can crush us, you can bruise us.

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10 points

You would be surprised how comically inept most LEOs are. They are regular people too. Take your chances.

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9 points

I will take my chance of stand off and quick death over being in prison in another state with no future.

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that will just give them an excuse to murder you immediately, and then the right to murder anyone immediately.

although I’m not sure what else can be done, without saying anything illegal that might get me in an FBI watchlist and give me expedited tickets to a free vacation in el Salvador

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I’m just incredulous that anyone here believes they have a chance against a militarized police and immigration force. Feels very much like when the right pretended they could defend themselves against the government “taking their guns.” 99% of civilians, gun owners or not, have no chance.

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You don’t. You’re supposed to kill as many as you can before they take you out. You’re dead either way.

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Then you can learn to fly drones. You might stand a chance against a combat helicopter with a good drone. :) And if things don’t hit the fan, you just have a nice and peaceful hobby. :)

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What kind of cargo release do you recommend for water balloons?

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Don’t have to get them all by yourself. If everyone they try to arrest gets just one of them they will run out of men a lot faster than they will arrest everyone they want to get rid of. There are way way way way more of us than there are of them if we would get off our asses and stand up for each other and ourselves.

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Yeah that’s the thing: a gun is far more likely to be used on a family member or yourself than a legit intruder.

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Without a gun, you also don’t stand a chance.

But what if it isn’t a bunch of “legal” authorities? When this all kicks off, which is looking more and more likely, you wont have to worry as much about the authorities, who will already have their hands full, you have to worry about your local MAGA Morons, who will realize that their long-held fantasy of a a Liberal Purge is finally upon them.

All they have to do is look up the voting registrations on their county’s website, and they can easily put together a hit list of Libz in their own neighborhood, and go house to house, doing their duty to their MAGA Nazi leaders, knowing they will be praised as patriots for their murder spree.

That’s who you have to worry about. If you can plug one before he gets you, then you can take HIS guns and ammo, and start building your own arsenal.

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Or leave if you can

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And go where? Gotta work. Gotta eat. At a certain point if you’re not in the top 5% of applicants, you’re screwed. Your choice is die on your knees or die fighting.

No place on earth is far enough away from the fuckwits who control everything. I wish leaving the US would be the end of it, but everywhere sucks.

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Hence “if you can”. I’m currently making it work, but I know it’s not an option for everyone. And yes, it’s gonna suck worldwide, but I’d rather not remain in a country that wants to throw me in a concentration camp because of my skin color or gender identity.

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I think they should do that to any US Citizen with 34 convictions or more… starting with the orange ones!

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Funny thing is the criteria they talk about would impact Melania Trump and Elon Musk, both of whom became citizens under false pretenses.

The plan is of course to send people whose skin color is too dark or hold left-wing views to the death camp in El Salvador.

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Or people who aren’t cis enough or straight enough, or anyone who makes a Republican man feel confused in his pants.

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Let’s face it, they want to remove everyone except around 77 million mentally ill sycophants. My guess is to fully bring in the fourth reich with WW3 and the ultimate goal of global dominion until only their kind is left. They don’t care about anything else. If they accomplish that I would assume they would start eating each other until only one is left.

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That too. I think it’s a pretty long list, and I don’t claim to have any deep insight into the order.

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10 points

Call it rule 34

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Yes, Google that, it explains everything!

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“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?.. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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Jordan Peterson constantly quotes Solzhenitsyn warning of what the Liberal party would do to canada or the democrats would do to the usa. He would then promote a tool like polievre or an overt fascist orangeman without any irony at all. Today he seems to be confused about what fascism is and has oftentimes waffles between endorsing them or trying to avoid discussing them, like a true intellectual coward who was wrong about everything he ever said

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He’s not confused about what fascism is, he knows and he wants it. Just like any fascist, you can’t take what he says at face value, it’s all trolling games like the Sartre quote.

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With Peterson, he did make himself sick with that “carnivore” diet. He’s been huffing his own fumes so long that I think it’s fucked with his cognitive abilities.

I’ve listened to his class lectures - I do not understand how he earned a doctorate, and I do not understand why anyone taken the shit that comes out of his mouth seriously. It’s just misinterpreted Jung with some Manichean/Christian influence.

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That’s it exactly. JBP, JD Vance, etc., play word games of rhetoric to get what they want. It’s like they are defence lawyers and morality is a legal system they are trying to game - they argue whatever just to win.

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59 points

Germany 1933-45. Right out of the book.

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Isn’t those the numbers on the hats?

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Fucking fascist

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