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and uses four times the electricity and substances that have been banned since the 80s

They learned that you can make a fuckload of money off of public misfortune if you position yourself correctly.

Something something all authority is born at the end of a gun.

“A lawyer says this is illegal.” They’ll deny access to lawyers. They’ll ignore lawyers. They’ll arrest lawyers. I’m pretty sure they’ve done all three at least once by now. Once killing people becomes open policy and not something they have to hide and mask through innuendo, they’ll kill lawyers, too.

They are the ones with the guns and the audacity to use them, so they have the power of action while we throw paper at them.

You’re right, subsume is probably a better word, but they cannot do that without utterly invalidating the systems that exist now that are in their way. And they are doing that through audaciously and violently ignoring them, so don’t be surprised when they do the same to the Western concept of criminal justice.

If anything it’s more ammunition for their dissolution of civil society. “See, the courts are broken, we have no choice but to detain people without warrants and trials.”

Did we? We arrested state legislators for demanding to be let into Delaney Hall detention center and nothing really happened about that. AFAIK ICE has been a constant but relatively low profile fixture in places like Newark and Paterson since this whole thing started.

Dems wanted a healthy population to save money, Republicans want a healthy population so they can join the military to kill and die for imperial interest.

They aren’t just lying, they’re actively disdainful of the bodies questioning them. I think they’re daydreaming of the point in the coup that they can throw them all in prison for sedition.

In specifically small arms, I’m not so sure. I’d bet that the American public buys enough firearms every year to arm every American soldier two or three times over. Ruger and PSA aren’t competing with Raytheon and L3Harris.

They are also doing it because they know they are deeply unpopular with the non-fascist public and risk being overrun by a crowd if they only have 2-3 thugs on it. Need enough people on a perimeter explicitly threatening to gun people down like they did with Floyd.

This meme is old enough that the .45/1911 worship wasn’t even a fudd thing, it was a huge section of the gun community if not the majority. The era of the Para Ordnance double stack being taken seriously and the Springfield TRP Operator being the ultimate combat pistol, at least if you couldn’t afford a Wilson. All sorts of actual high speed guys were turning their noses up at 9mm to get their hands on a .45.

The moment Demon Miller got on CNN or whatever and said to the host he was belittling “We live in the real world where what matters is strength”, every single one of our allies should have started drafting and updating plans on how to kill American soldiers and wage war against the US.

I believe that was one of the most foreboding statements that has come out of the administration so far. A blatant admission that they do not care about laws or ethics, only strength of arms.

She was put there to demoralize and delegitimize the very ideas of honesty and accountability from the executive as well as the press that tries to extract it, this is no accident or fumbling. In her shamelessness she’s just better at it than her, what, five predecessors?

Sooner or later when they seize enough power they’ll remove all press access for anyone who isn’t a complete state-sactioned stooge, or just dispose of the function altogether.

“Your mom.” - actual White House press statement

By that time the “minute men” were already a fairly well armed and organized militia, as far as militias go. I see no viable parallel today, even in nascent form.

Any armed group greater than around four people is compromised by federal law enforcement, the far right learned this decades ago.

I care what happens to them, just not in the way they’d prefer.

The majority of people who support ICE believe that the people who don’t are traitors and not real Americans who deserve to be cast aside if not punished. They are never going to be swayed by fact, let alone public opinion.

“The Second American Revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it to be.” These people are at war with us.

They won’t be ambassadors by then, they will either agree to become quasi-military emissaries to negotiate concessions and surrenders to our dominion, or they will be retired or just killed.

A 2-inch bruise could technically be considered “internal bleeding.”

People are helplessly attached to a sense of normalcy and security even if they are illusions. Letting them go is extremely distressing for most well-adjusted people. Some would sell out their own family to keep it.

DHS has more resources at their disposal than most militaries now. They will give it a damn good try.

If anyone gets access save everything locally immediately. I don’t see this lasting more than 24 hours.