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Why don't protestors who oppose Trump/ICE open carry their guns to prevent what's currently occuring in the US ie kidnapping, assaults etc?

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  • W [email protected]

    That's why all of us Americans can quickly tell when someone is just trying to start shit when they get angry online..

    There are ways to fight back. But they require patience, communication, planning, subterfuge, and more importantly OPSEC. Otherwise the regime just slaughters everyone like they want to.

    Louder for the motherfuckers in the back!

    There are so many fucking people online upset about this shit that amount to not much more than hot air. Chasing the perfect to the detriment of the good. Purity tests. Arguing for blatantly impossible courses of action, or at least ones that will nevet get enough buy in from the greater population to work. Sitting on their asses getting angry while worshipping some half-cocked idea of open revolution, full overthow of the government, and dissolution of the capitalist economic framework... without ever evaluating how the fuck the world could even get to that state except "magic unspecific mass violent revolution", "complete apocalypse scenario then rebuild", or "if we all wish upon a star really hard, all the bad people will have simultaneous fatal anuerysms". Not to mention how the fuck could that state ever be maintained afterwards.

    If it's not outright impossible, it will require an astronomical amount of prep and planning. None of this is shit that just "happens" through sheer desire or will without slow supportive action to build what is neccessary.

    People getting their emotional catharsis ranting, venting, and shit stirring without taking any true action. Stirring other people up into the same state.

    Get offline, get involved locally, become an expert on the spaces and people around you. Form local connections. Accept that you aren't an action hero, and if the US military is turned on you, as a civilian you cannot win through force. Build relevant skills for a crisis. Build relevant skills for ongoing resistance. Build skills for organizing locally and securely.

    Most importantly: Shut the absolute fuck up. Just shut the fuck up. As far as it's within your power, don't make yourself a target and blend in.


    I'm already not a good example, as my OPSEC on this account is abysmal. I take solace in that none of my plans or actions involve abject resistance, and are all local good type shit.

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    Thank you for having a post that helps me hope everyone is not insane.

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      I love the choice of standard to hold yourself up to.

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        Because the White House is looking for an excuse to have the military start slaughtering civilians and imprisoning democrats. A general strike is what we need to do

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        At a certain point we have to fight back.

        The argument of "we can't respond to their violence with violence or they will become more violent" doesn't hold water when they are getting increasingly violent anyway.

        It's a coward's fallacy

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        • S [email protected]

          Is this not the reason the second amendment exists?
          Regards
          An Australian
          Edit: I'm not advocating for violence. More so "a well regulated militia" which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

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          Americans are domesticated cowards

          Don't have kids, leave the country if you can afford to.

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          • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

            At a certain point we have to fight back.

            The argument of "we can't respond to their violence with violence or they will become more violent" doesn't hold water when they are getting increasingly violent anyway.

            It's a coward's fallacy

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            I do understand your point but the military was told to attack and commit war crimes on American civilians so I just think that a general strike would be the most effective strategy in the situation we currently face. That’s just my opinion on the approach that would be the most efficient at this time.

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              I mean, you see something terrifying, I see something that works. Armed demonstrations are a tried and true tactic for all kinds of militant activism.

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                The protester had no ill intentions, but the peacekeepers didn't know that.

                Gamboa snuck away, retrieved a hidden gun, came back and pointed out at someone. He very clearly had ill intentions, and was arrested for attempted murder.

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                That's false.

                https://www.kuer.org/news/2025-06-20/judge-orders-release-of-arturo-gamboa-in-no-kings-protest-shooting-case

                He didn't make any attempt to hide when he took out his gun, did not load it, and when they didn't charge him after he was arrested a judge ordered him to be released.

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                  Sure. But protest organizers have a responsibility to create a clear policy and communicate this policy in an open carry state, and they also have a responsibility to properly vet any people that do communicate that they will attend with a firearm.

                  The volunteer open carry person was not trained, and was not given any instruction as simple as "return fire only" or "do not shoot first".

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                  • F [email protected]

                    I do understand your point but the military was told to attack and commit war crimes on American civilians so I just think that a general strike would be the most effective strategy in the situation we currently face. That’s just my opinion on the approach that would be the most efficient at this time.

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                    It’s the most powerful tool in our arsenal. And it’s just sitting right at our feet. But we just won’t pick it up. I don’t get it.

                    General strike now.

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                      Yeah, no, that's the point. You look at a barbaric demonstration of a completely broken down society and see something that works. That's horrifying.

                      You effectively saw some guy walk into a subway holding his erect, exposed penis in one hand and a machete in the other and went "hey, that guy found an empty seat right away, I think we can all learn a lesson here".

                      That's nuts. It's weird that you don't see how nuts that is.

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                      • F [email protected]

                        I do understand your point but the military was told to attack and commit war crimes on American civilians so I just think that a general strike would be the most effective strategy in the situation we currently face. That’s just my opinion on the approach that would be the most efficient at this time.

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                        https://generalstrikeus.com/

                        Once 11mil more strike cards are filled out it begins.

                        Otherwise we are waiting until 2028 when the Auto Workers Union starts their planned general strike

                        I will keep trying but I have very little faith in my fellow countrymen

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                        • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                          https://generalstrikeus.com/

                          Once 11mil more strike cards are filled out it begins.

                          Otherwise we are waiting until 2028 when the Auto Workers Union starts their planned general strike

                          I will keep trying but I have very little faith in my fellow countrymen

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                          Italy made it happen today with no preparation

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                            Italy made it happen today with no preparation

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                            They didn't grow up isolated in a country 50x the size of Italy with a completely different system of values and it isn't legal for their newspapers and government to use propaganda against them.

                            Tbh i don't even think half the country knows what a strike is, let alone has class consciousness

                            If you feel like participating you can go fill out a strike card.

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                              The 2nd amendment was written in 1789 when information moved at the rate of the printing press and bullets came from muskets.

                              This takeover has been in planning since the 1970s. They courted the NRA and gun owners along with the attack on public schooling so said gun owners wouldn't understand what fascism is when the moment came.

                              In the grand scheme of things, it took the fascists 200 years to find a way around the 2nd amendment.

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                              The founding fathers used every trick in the fascist playbook before there was even such a thing. We have always been a country created by the wealthy for the wealthy. You can't examine our history critically and come away not seeing blatant authoritarian and proto-fascist ideology and actions.

                              So no, the fascists have always been here and in charge filling our heads with the propaganda to make us believe we are a free law abiding democracy.

                              Everything else you said was spot on. Just because we have always been fascist doesn't mean we can't get objectively worse

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                              • turkalino@lemmy.yachtsT [email protected]

                                Can’t tell if this is a sarcastic question or not but opposing the government with guns is a delusion held by conservatives who think their AR-15s have a chance against a government with drones, tanks, etc. That belief was true when the Bill of Rights was written and the military just had muskets and a couple cannons but anyone who believes that now is insane

                                Plus, our police shoot unarmed people and get away with it, what do you think is gonna happen if they see you open carrying?

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                                Plus, our police shoot unarmed people and get away with it, what do you think is gonna happen if they see you open carrying?

                                If they're already shooting people when they're unarmed what more can they do if people are armed? Shoot them twice?

                                If you're going to get shot anyway you may as well shoot them back.

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                                  Is this not the reason the second amendment exists?
                                  Regards
                                  An Australian
                                  Edit: I'm not advocating for violence. More so "a well regulated militia" which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

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                                  Ice thugs arresting unarmed citizens and lawful temporary residents brandish firearms and shove you into a van.

                                  Ice thugs arresting armed citizens will probably shoot first.

                                  In no case will they identify themselves or allow for an orderly review of all the paperwork every citizen would surely have with them at all times.

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                                    They didn't grow up isolated in a country 50x the size of Italy with a completely different system of values and it isn't legal for their newspapers and government to use propaganda against them.

                                    Tbh i don't even think half the country knows what a strike is, let alone has class consciousness

                                    If you feel like participating you can go fill out a strike card.

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                                    The working people of italia are all joined by a single piece of spaghetti

                                    it isnt legal for their newspapers and govt to use propaganda against them and a different system of values

                                    I'm sorry, what?

                                    Mussolini's grandchild literally represents Italy in the European Parliament, you're pretending america is some special fascist wonderland, when it's just a culture built on dispossession, which plenty of Italians have migrated to, contributed to, and benefitted from

                                    I'll give you one thing, Italy has a much higher union density than the usa (30% compared to 10%), i know for a fact it's near impossible to get younger folk in a settler nation to join a union

                                    anyway whatever, watching a bunch of yanks suddenly start up with has anyone thought about a general strike? will never not give me a laugh

                                    join your union, read Lenin, start exercising

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                                      Italy made it happen today with no preparation

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                                      Italy has massive nation wide unions (syndicates) and these strikes had more participation than any other in recent years. They exist today because of huge support for communists in the WW2 aftermath. I don't think the US has anything of the sorts

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                                        The working people of italia are all joined by a single piece of spaghetti

                                        it isnt legal for their newspapers and govt to use propaganda against them and a different system of values

                                        I'm sorry, what?

                                        Mussolini's grandchild literally represents Italy in the European Parliament, you're pretending america is some special fascist wonderland, when it's just a culture built on dispossession, which plenty of Italians have migrated to, contributed to, and benefitted from

                                        I'll give you one thing, Italy has a much higher union density than the usa (30% compared to 10%), i know for a fact it's near impossible to get younger folk in a settler nation to join a union

                                        anyway whatever, watching a bunch of yanks suddenly start up with has anyone thought about a general strike? will never not give me a laugh

                                        join your union, read Lenin, start exercising

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                                        .ml

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                                          We “lost” those wars because of morale. Like especially in Vietnam we were destroying them in terms of kill death ratios and the Vietcong had been mostly eliminated by 1969. Also Vietnam wasn’t just a bunch of farmers with hunting rifles the NVA was being funded and trained by the USSR and China. By the end of the war Vietnam lost around 20x the people and their population had been poisoned with agent orange.

                                          We also didn’t use our nukes, if the military through enough brainwashing and propaganda could be convinced that these protesters are an insider threat we could easily be looking at the deaths of 10-100s of thousands

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                                          We “lost” those wars because of morale.

                                          Yeah, that's how every war is lost. A war is won when the other side is no longer willing and able to take up arms against you, to achieve victory, you can remove their ability to take up arms (killing or imprisoning, for example), but the bulk of warfare is about removing the enemy's willingness to keep fighting.

                                          Like, if you occupy an enemy trench, chances are you didn't kill everyone in the trench, you just removed the enemy's willingness to keep holding that position, convincing them to retreat or surrender. Virtually every war that has ever been lost in history has been "lost because of morale."

                                          Putting "lost" in quotes regarding Vietnam is absolutely fucking insane. "Kill death ratios" don't matter, this isn't fucking Call of Duty. Murdering all those civilians helped convince the Vietnamese that there was no future for them if they lost or surrendered, it put their backs against the wall and ensured that breaking their willingness to fight was virtually impossible. If the US deployed nukes, then it would become even more clear that there was no future for them as a colony, and the US would have to exterminate the entire country. And if they tried to exterminate the entire country with nukes (not that they were at all restrained as it was), they would have faced even more backlash, domestically and internationally, which, guess what, are also valid theaters of war.

                                          I stg the hoops people will jump through to maintain this chauvinism and be like "America never loses" is absolutely insane. People have such ridiculous brainworms over Vietnam. You lost. No quotes, you just lost. Get over it.

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