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This is sedition.
If the system won't enforce the law, the people will have to.
Does anyone else remember all the election map cases the Democrats won on the election year? After years of delay by Republicans? And we were always told it's too late for this year? And there's another bullshit map right before the next election? And it's too late again?
I remember.
Welcome to the New America. Hail Trump. God Bless The Holy Republican Party.
Turns out the US has already had its last democratic(-ish) election. Any bets on how big a majority the GOP gets in the House this November?
80%+ I'll bet.
Guillotines. Guillotines for all of them. Democracy needs to be defended decisively.
Rusty Cage built one in Florida
We have trees and ropes aplenty!
Of course he's happy that someone is testing the "suspend elections" tack.
GOP’s phenomenal New Jim Crow triumph courtesy of the GOP-dominated Supreme Court’s obliteration of the Voting Rights Act!
Isn't this the New New Jim Crow?
Well for one, I don't live in a country that has a decades long history of pretending to be a democracy whereas in reality it was just all about protecting rich racist pedophiles
For two: the USA has been bragging on every shape or form possible about ho they would protect the world, how they would have the lone hero who would stand up and sacrifice everything for the good, and do the right thing
Now that we need that American gung ho spirit, the world is waiting and.... Crickets....
So take all of those Hollywood movies from since the 50's about the American hero who saves the day and dump it in the garbage because it was all lies, all bullshit, because real Americans just keep on "well but if Indo that I may lose muh joobbbb" when asked to do something as simple as protest.
Nobody has asked to bring down your government yet (well, fair, many have, but I doubt many expect that to happen), nobody has asked you to assassinate politicians, just FUCKING PROTEST already, and fuck your pussy ass no kings protests that did less than diddly squad. That was not a protest, that was just a procession to feed ducks
For fucks sake, Americans, your country is invaded, where are your fucking heroes? You know, the ones being advertised for decades on end? I'm not seeing any of them
Liberalism, baby. Institutions deal with problems, not people.
When are Americans actually going to use their 2A rights for something other than performative bullshit?
Seriously, this is the kind of shit the law was created to stop.
It's hard. I'm a minority living quite far away with multiple guns, and to get to DC with them and close enough to leverage them would be basically impossible.
I have them for any impending civil war against neighbors or otherwise, because I feel like that's coming.
impending civil war against neighbors or otherwise
We need to be making coalitions with our neighbors and otherwise. We stand no chance if we cannot stand together.
I agree.
All my neighbors voted for and strongly support Trump.
Interesting. I would have yard signs that call out some of the most grotesque stuff. Yard signs like Lemmy comments; “Pedo in Chief says …” You know? Force them to confront a little bit of reality, every day.
This is the text:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The intent is pretty clear. It's been muddled by idiots through history, but it's obviously to have militias armed, trained, and ready for when an enemy attacks. At the time, most nations relied on militias for their military. Professional standing armies were reserved for the wealthiest nations, and even they usually supplemented them with militias. The USA was a new nation of farmers. It did not have the budget to have a professional military. They wrote the 2nd amendment clearly for this purpose.
This isn't to say people shouldn't do what the charlatans have said it's for. Obviously they should if/when it's needed (not making a claim about now, that's for the reader to decide).
I also support gun rights, though I think they should be more regulated and require training and safe storage. The 9th amendment protects this.
The whole 2A bullshit was always meant to be used against minorities.
lol it's easy to sit from outside and go "do something" when in reality you would never lift a finger in violence against your government because unless you have nothing left to lose, it's not a winning bet
Have you seen how the French reacted to the raising of retirement age? They literally threw a bathtub through their executives home window. Americans should be dragging politicians through the streets by their entrails with all the shit that's been happening but they willingly just keep letting it happen with no actual recourse.
I'm not directing people to go do something.
I'm openly wondering why, in a country with a law that was designed to literally protect the people from tyranny (which I think cancelling elections counts) nobody is doing anything.
Because the people who worship guns the most support the tyrants.
The hierarchy of needs is being met sufficiently that going against the system providing them is scary, especially when you’re likely to die doing it.
Same reason the bear runs when the cat chases it. Not worth the fight.
I’m not saying this is how I believe, just this is what I believe the general reason is.
Exactly, everyone is still too comfortable to take such drastic action. That's fortunate because it means society hasn't broken down to the point of people starving and what not (which I don't think it'll ever get to that point in the near term). But it's unfortunate that everyone is still too comfortable to take action.
Actually, millions of people are taking action in protests, petitions, local referendums, etc. but not many people want to take the most drastic action as they have too much to lose (e.g. their life). I want the regime to fall and face real justice without violence, but the regime is pushing everyone to get violence so they can crack down even harder against any dissent. We're speedrunning to Putin's playbook.
I disagree that this was the original purpose, but we heard the argument often enough from defenders of the 2A... and don't hear anything now.
Never, it was always some fallacy to sell the "land of the free, home of the brave" marketing campaign... Americans are entirely meek
Duh, you think the authoritarian is going to follow the law? No. Because if he doesn't win, the consequences are immeasurable
Is this for real?
Yes.