The Vietnamese did it and they were trapped in a cave with a bunch of scrap metal.

They only have that kind of power over life because they claim it. They, and most other people, don’t realize how fragile their position actually is, should others seek the same.

Just gonna float the idea out there that you should assume that everything you do online or via a cell phone can be and is being watched. For all those privacy minded folks out there, take a hint from Goodfellas and don’t ever talk over the phone about anything you want to keep private (unless you can find a payphone, I guess). That goes doubly so for internet forums.

If a video appears to show something then it shows something, right? Am I crazy? If a video shows something then it automatically appears to show it, right?

Am I talking nonsense, or is this just another case of the media sanewashing what is obviously a fascist crackdown on the citizenry?

I think the jury is still out on that

You mean the ones that have been voting for this stuff since the 80s? I hope they get what they deserve

Sounds like you’re at best a willing collaborator, so I don’t give one fuck what you think.

You’d rather terrorize US citizens than desert?

You’d rather be a cog in the Reich than desert?

You are literally the type of person that my Grandad was paid to kill during WW2

This year. Get out while the borders are open.

Some people have to stay behind to sabotage the Regime.

You don’t even need the courts of your side. The Regime has directly defied court orders time and time again.

What you really need is a citizenry that’s too afraid or complicit to defend themselves.

Now I want to see a version of Home Alone where it’s ICE and all the traps are as deadly as they would be in real life.

There would be piles of bodies around the McCallister house. I wonder if Mac Culkin is busy these days

No, that’s illegal. But AFAIK in all states you can wait inside your door with a shotgun and blast anyone who breaks into your home illegally.

Better yet, you have the constitutional right to organize 30 or your neighbors to use guns to protect each other from marauding thugs.

Protesting is only effective because there is the implication that if nothing changes, the people will make a change.

What happens when the powers that be realize that the US people are all bark and no bite? Well, exactly the sort of stuff that is happening in Minnesota right now

… We should not inflict armed religious zealots on Denmark. No matter how many of them “aren’t bad people”

They should just sail a ship into Los Angeles and plant their flag.

I’m not sure you we should be subjecting Denmark to the people of Arkansas

Also they are saying don’t shop or go to school. So a strike plus other stuff, it looks like.

Is the correct response to violence always nonviolence?

If so, that directly contradicts the fact that my grandad was considered a hero for enacting violence on fascists in Europe

I love the energy but not shopping for one day does nothing.

People are just going to delay their purchases. Better would be to cut all unnecessary purchases, or to be selective about where you shop. Having lower than average numbers one day and higher than average numbers the next is literally not even going to move the needle.

The work stoppage, on the other hand, is a little more promising.

Exactly. So when a new president is sworn in, even if Trump and his cronies don’t care, the military will still follow the new Presidents orders and will have no legal reason to follow Trumps.

At least, hypothetically.