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Arm yourselves folks.
Sadly this is the answer.
With calls to start killing the opposition going unchallenged, it is only a matter of time until open civil war breaks out.
Whether you consider this fortunate or unfortunate is up to you, but I don't think this is likely. Not because MAGA won't go that far, but because nobody in a position to organize a popular mass response (armed or unarmed) to a MAGA overthrow of democracy would actually do it. The right will enthusiastically support it, the center will be kinda mad but just fall in line and the left will be caught with its pants down because nobody is out there building the organizational infrastructure for such a thing.
I'm glad someone gets it. It won't be 'civil war' it will be 'civil unrest' with any true attempts to organize or enact violence quickly being neutralized by the complicit surveillance state. It doesn't matter what the majority believe or want. It matters what you can enact in defense of your principles and your right to exist. This is how the fascist mind works. If they can't be stopped then they won't stop.
Frankly, it's already too late. We already know how this works because we've seen it. In Russia, Hong Kong, Tiananmen Square, Iran, and a smattering of other places. It won't be civil war. You need a military force for civil war. a cohesive engine with infrastructure and capital and weaponry. It will be protests and varying degree of 'riots' with maybe a peppering individual actors carrying out actual terrorist violence. None of that amounts to a civil war. At best you're talking about a handful of dumb kids that got guns and went to a protest and then got everyone at the protest killed when they tried to defend themselves.
Hell, the war for independence was more or less a civil war but it only succeeded because the French came in and whipped the colonies into an actual fighting force. There is no equivalent outside force today that is going to come in and train the American populace, and even if there were you would be talking about some funding of terrorist cells kinda CIA style. The only place that could even remotely, (and I mean a snowflakes chance in hell) work is in the less populated middle of the country but there's no force out there that agrees with left wing ideology and there's no way to get supplies to them.
I'm sorry folks. I wish it weren't so, but the moral high ground is useless if you can't defend it.
Wipe your digital footprint, learn to obfuscate yourself and stfu until you can figure out how to leave if you're a vulnerable demographic because shit's going to hit the fan hard and you might find yourself dying in an 'accidental' prison fire or something the next time you go to a big protest and get arrested.
I hate to say it but I must agree with you.
I'm hesitant to say there's any historical precedent for where we're headed.
I more or less agres, but I wanna note that I'm a bit more optimistic than you in that I don't think it's quite too late. In principle Americans could start now and build the infrastructure for a successful popular revolt (though that infrastructure would be much better used preemptively to prevent the need for popular revolt); they just won't because they still believe the fascists will let themselves be voted out of power. The bad ending is still preventable but it won't be prevented.
If they're doing it, I hope they're doing it quietly. That's all I have to say.
Also, get to know your neighbors. Most people are decent, and a semi-organized group willing to stand up for each other is a hell of a lot harder to oppress.
Also, I'd suggest reading "that nonviolent stuff will get you killed." It's about the role firearms played in the civil rights struggle. Super interesting read.
Building community is just as important, if not moreso.
You mean this?
It appears to be a valid site and valid copy, but I went in with uBlock Origin fully loaded so I can't guarantee it. I suggest the same for anyone else.
That's it, good find!
I've bought 6 guns in the past month. Im looking for more. Took my kids and girl out shooting last weekend, taught the kids how to load and fire the 22. Let my girl go from loading the magazines and firing the 9 and 40 pistols. Let her pick which she liked best for home. Next weekend I'll have the 9 carbine, 40 carbine and shotgun out for her to fire and I have a better target system for the kids to work with. If it keeps then safe from assholes, I'm for it.
Those are rookie numbers!
Lol. Where'd you hear that?
I won't say, talk is cheap, but the US government trying to disarm the people would surely be a sign of the end times.
How about yourself? Would you still "back the blue"? When the police knock on your door? Because then you might realize we have more in common than you've been led to believe.
Why do you even want guns? You are too pussy to use them to even stop your pedophile president. You cannot even use them to stop the Mexican cartels that are fucking your children in the ass. Why do you even care? You are a tremendous pussy anyway.
Can't in my state, have to pay over $350 in fees, training and registration before I can even take home the purchased firearm.
Poor people (sadly the majority of the U.S. and growing!) really have one of two options... Break laws to defend yourself or accept the boot on your face.
I took a concealed carry course but realized the liability for shooting someone was pretty big. If I decide to carry, I intend to take multiple proficiency courses. I think that should be required.
What state is that? I'm in Illinois and it's pretty bad here, hard to imagine worse.
Needles to say, I've got my firearm owner ID (thanks IL), my conceal carry, and handful of awareness/defense/tactics style classes under my belt to be prepared for just about any scenario (hopefully)
FOID = $5 (technically all you need for step 4)
CCL = $150+ 16-hour class + $150 license good for 5 years
CCL insurance = $10+/month through USCCA, NRA, US Law Shield, or other (typically offers $1m+ for 2A defense attorney fees for criminal court and I believe ditto for civil court too)
Now you can make your firearm purchase... minus 170+ banned firearms due to loading mechanisms, attachments, magazine capacities, firing method, etc.
Thanks ~~Prickster~~ I mean Pritzker
Could very well be Minnesota.