• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    If it gets to the point where left wing people are genuinely being rounded up, and there are no other options left, then being armed at worst lets us make the round up more costly in a last stand, or hopefully if there has been enough community building beforehand, helps us more effectively prevent a round up from occurring..

    It would also help for a French resistance or Irish Troubles style long-term push-back.

    • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      I don’t know that they’re going to worry about rounding people up. It’s enough for most people to make them too scared to think. Drone strike a protest on American soil and that’ll break the will of a lot of people. Of course, it will also embolden resistance, but then that’s exactly what he wants. If he can get the most serious resistors to huddle up where he can take them out with tactical units and scare the rest into hiding, he wins.

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        4 days ago

        There is no “he”, its a “them.”

        And FWIW, Trump is not even part of them. He is just a loud stooge distraction.

        • ContactClosure@lemmus.org
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          2 days ago

          People keep falling into the trap of thinking he’s the one doing any of this. He just wants money and fucking trophies. Yarvin and Thiel are taking advantage of the bullshit machine to built their techno feudal wet dream.