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Former Trump administration official and wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller, Katie Miller, posted Saturday on X (formerly Twitter) an image of Greenland covered in the U.S. flag with the text “SOON”.

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

How has it not been made clear to you that the 2nd amendment people ARE Trump supporters.

Plus the firearms people have access to don't work against the state. They really want people to try, but that's the problem with left leaning people, we think before we act.

These fuckers are putting MRAVs and other armor in the streets. Your small arms fire just tells them where you are loudly and quickly.

We must never fight on their terms. We must never fight how they are trained.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Drones are the new meta in attacking an authoritarian state.

Build yours today.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Coincidentally, Congress just restricted drone imports about 2 weeks ago...

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago

The import and sale ban does not apply to drones already authorized by the FCC, meaning you can still buy and use existing models (like current DJI drones) until stock runs out, but future models won't be available.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

At least until the state starts making early scourges and corsairs.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You may not have an option, buddy.

Once the US starts invading other countries it's kind of a one way street

Greenland is threatened again, and after Venezuela, people are listening. Mexico is threatened again and you bet your ass that both Mexican government and US army trained cartels are preparing. Mexico doesn't have any army to speak of, but Mexico will be the US next Afghanistan. Bodies and blood will flow.

And how do you think it'll end when the US tries to invade Canada?

Can they please just stop this madness

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

US started playing Risk without telling the other nations.

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess just do nothing again? Leave your problems for the rest of us to deal with I guess, it's the American way

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Huge chunks of our problems are Rupert Murdoch (Australia), Leon Musk (South Africa), Peter Thiel (Germany), Congress (Israel), and the POTUS (Russia). Maybe the rest of the world can not bother with America's problems, but deal with the ones you've sent us?

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Literally everyone you just named is an American citizen

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

ignoring the decades of previous history of home made American imperialism.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam,.....

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

your quick to blame current problems on foreigners, while ignoring that those people came to the us BECAUSE of its existing imperialistic politics.

They're at best a symptom of a larger problem.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No, I'm cranky from people upthread putting all of the responsibility on us, when their countries ain't so sweet and innocent. There's a line a kilometer wide in fluorescent yellow between the 9/11 attacks back to U.S. imperialism, for instance, but Britain, Netherlands, Germany, and Russia all had their own brands of imperialism which are far more responsible for raising up those men to wealth. This is more a problem of class than nationality.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The current regime COLLABORATED with the Kremlin to get in power. As is a lot of other fascist movements in the world. I think we can safely blame a foreigner.

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

bush era regulations aren't foreigners....

here's the thing with Putin, he didn't invent the flames, he just stoked them. The tea party was always this.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The one big problem is the lack of desire not to vote.

Those rich foreigners go there for a reason.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And the desire not to vote is a human problem, far from uniquely American. Denial and dissociation are how people get through lots of life, if my own experience as well as conversations with Russian and Chinese friends are any indicator. And the reason that the wealthy foreigners come here is that the U.S. has been the current center of economic power. They would have gone to London in the 19th century.

And, for the record, I don't actually expect that non-wealthy South Africans can do anything about Musk, but then, neither can non-wealthy Americans.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

the desire not to vote is a human problem

Maybe in your mind, but it’s the reason the US is where it’s at.

It isn’t the 19th century. The reason Murdoch went to the US is a fertile ground to milk for that wealth.

Yes, non wealthy Americans could have done something about Musk…voted, because he himself admitted had Harris won, he’d be in jail.

Edit: fixed quote