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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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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'm far more heavily armed than most. I could outfit my entire block, though they're already armed; young, old, liberal, MAGA. Yes, even the little old black lady across the street.

What the fuck do you want me to do? I'm sick of these smartass posts. Give me fucking instructions and be clear or STFU.

Fuck me. Saw what looked like an ICE thing in Alabama today, put my Colt .45 under my leg while trying to get my immigrant wife the hell back to Florida. There's a 12-gauge pump leaning on my desk 24x7 and the AR-15 leans on my nightstand. Being that there's no ICE around here, want me to hunt some down a couple of states away? Be clear in your instructions.

I now lock my doors, have a gun in reach everywhere I go and live in fear. And you assholes, "LOL! Where my 2A boys at?"

[–] DetectiveNo64@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Find some like minded people, take out some ICE personnel at night, take out their vehicles, make them all afraid to round people up.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah this is the part they don't want to accept because it's ugly and it's risky. It takes courage and conviction, and it takes planning and commitment.

There are very few people who can do this, and even fewer who can do it successfully and also live a reasonably normal life without getting caught. The problem is that all the 2A people got convinced they were the vanguard but never actually were told what that means. They bought into the hype but never understood what it really meant. Now when it gets real and it gets ugly they find out they never were that guy, and they just wanted to cosplay as that guy because the guns are cool.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well then maybe start getting rid of your fucking useless 2A that is responsible for so much death and tragedy if it doesn't do THE ONE THING that's supposed to make all that fucking death and tragedy worthwhile

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do explain your understanding of the Constitutional amendment process and how that might play out in 2025 America.

Either answer or shut the fuck up with your facile, childish notions.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"I support the 2A because it would not be political not to support it." Orrrrrr you just like guns, and fuck the consequences.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They don't realize that the military that our government has used in other countries will easily be used against us, and has far greater firepower than we could ever have. I'm armed, in case shit goes down, but I will not last long against the military industrial complex in the US. Not to mention a ton of people here are disabled and have not had real healthcare in years.

If just a group of us, or your neighborhood, for example, goes out against the government, the insurrection card will be played and everyone will be arrested, shot, and/or vaporized. It would take a fuck ton of people to rise up, and then you run into the same issue as the general strike. How do you keep people fed? We already can't do that now, so we'd need to set up the infrastructure to be able to feed everyone while we weather the storm.