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Unfortunately, they just shot a legally armed man at a peaceful protest.

More likely to melt her down and try to profit from the scrap metal. There are a lot of chuds who would like a piece of Lady Liberty. 🙁

The right broadly is entirely about image and aesthetics, not principles.

We keep projecting the idea onto them that all this evil and destruction we're seeing is somehow based on a principle or an idea or some big plot. Nope, they don't care about meaning behind anything, they don't care about history or tradition or values, they just want to make the people who make them uncomfortable go away.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-conditions-inside-the-infamous-el-salvador-prison-where-deported-migrants-are-held

Everyone should be doing the following:

• Arming the FUCK up. I don't care how you feel about firearms in the US, it finally is that time that we need to worry about resisting tyranny. Meet force with force. You probably will never actually need to use the thing, but if the administration, or the next one, knows that actually enforcing policy will become a door-to-door meat-grinder across the entire US, they won't risk the bloodbath. We need to preserve the standoff at all costs.

• Saving money. Economics are still a thing. If they can't strangle you, they will starve you. Cut vices like drinking and drugs, stop spending money on new toys and games, start putting cash away.

• Getting involved in your community. As one protestor said, nobody is coming. The republicans sure won't save us. The democrats won't save us, nobody is going to swoop in and enact justice. Only your neighbors will save you. Or your family. Or your friends. Whatever shape it takes, we need numbers united. We need communities to stand up together and help each other. Time to exercise social muscles you didn't know you had and actually talk to people.

• Get healthy. It's finally time to start doing those things you've imagined doing like exercising and eating better even if it means spending more time meal-prepping your beans and rice and taking daily jogs in the freezing cold or doing pull-ups in your doorway or just stretching for an hour a day so you won't cramp up and fall in the street when you have to run to a neighbor's house.

• Audit your social media presence. I know we can't give up internet identities entirely if we're organizing resistance, but you need to be aware that they are in fact really making databases. I don't think this current administration remotely has the balls or intellect to use that data for anything other than pointing and whining, but we have no idea how long this is going to last, and you might want to worry about how President Theil is going to use facial recognition and his drone-swarm to enforce his new order. (This is FAR from over after Trump is gone.) Take your pictures down, make sure you can't be physically located with your clues and status, take off location tracking, do what you can to separate your real life habits and life information from your social media.

It is the 4th box for a reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty

And be smart. The administration is using ICE as bait to declare in insurrection.

Ideally the goal of showing up armed to a protest is to prevent violence, not to cause it.

Finally a sane take. Thank you

You want to aim for the pelvic girdle for a lot of reasons;

• you can tell the direction of a target so you know where to lead
• it's the main pivot of the body so it moves the most predictably when in motion.
• it's full of arteries and will incapacitate the target which is more disruptive to a group than a kill shot as they are incentivized to render aid
• it's the least impacted by adipose tissue ensuring full terminal ballistic effect.

But if you look at a lot of the plate carriers meal team six are wearing, they're thin, so it's level 3 body armor max. Any 223/5.56 round will punch right through.

He raped last generation's Liberty?