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Yeah. That’s what the national guard did during the BLM protests. They were marching down neighborhood streets lighting up anyone who opened the door.
What the fuck world do people live in where they think any part of the military/police will suddenly turn around and protect them?
When they see the NG that Walz called in turn their guns on protesters to protect ICE, are finally gonna see the fucking shift in national awareness? Maybe that they’ve been forcefully mainlined fascist propaganda from every direction their entire lives?
I think this moment is new, we got normies out there fedposting en masse over this state murder
The Trump Reich is pushing too hard and the dems are caving to easily, it's unravelling an already partly unravelled Kayfabe
We could see some promising developments emerge in terms of mass radicalization
They did the same in the summer of '20. The big difference is this is happening in the middle of winter I suppose, which could indicate things will only get wilder since it's easier to participate when you aren't at risk of freezing to death. On the other hand there's also a bunch that's different, so who's to say. I still get 2020 vibes, though that only ended with the election, so... Its a big I dunno. I'm just jaded
The radlibs in Sam Seder's comment section are fedposting like crazy. These people were stanning Tim Walz last year and now they're calling for every ICE agent to be hanged in the town square.
People all over stormfront are fedposting, even in unsuspected places.
Critical support to the NFC North Meme War subreddit. The top posts all have to do with "Fuck ICE"
https://old.reddit.com/r/NFCNorthMemeWar/ (Context: the NFL's NFC North division has the Minnesota Vikings team)
Not to be Mr Sporpsball Socialist or anything, but the NFC North is by far the best division in terms of cities/regions and their contributions to American socialism (and adjacent areas like Unionism). Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Milwaukee (Green Bay--owned by fans btw) were all central to violent labor struggles. Then you have regional areas like Flint where perhaps the most impactful militant Union strike in American history took place (Flint Sit-Down), Ann Arbor with the Weather Underground (and being an original hub for shit like the underground railroad), literal socialist mayors in several cities in this region, and it's like...hell yeah, dude 👍🏻.
Capital and its goons can try to hide our history, but our consciousness still can break through in crazy ass ways. Even dumbass meme subreddits.
Well said!
AFC North too
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I have seen people who regularly watch fox saying things that border on fedposting :like-tears-in-rain:
surely the wehrmacht will protect us from the gestapo
Didn't the Cossacks protect the Bolsheviks or something like that at one point?
Russian army was filled with demoralized conscripts. Very different than an army of volunteer treatlerites
I didn't mean to make a comparison between the two, it was just the only example I could think of that fit
some cops would follow orders, but the democrats in charge aren't going to give the order.