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    Oh so they can breathe through those masks. Isn’t it strange how it was difficult for them 4 years ago but now they’re totally fine with it.

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    Why aren’t masked and armed individuals with weapons and no badges, that make attempts to abduct people, being shot?

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      Because the whole second amendment thing was about carrying a gun in the hope that you get to shoot a black person, a school kid or a teacher.

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    Isn’t it the job of the opposition party at this point to propose legislation that outlaws this practice? To run candidates on a platform of reigning in these abuses? To run ads with scary music saying how the government is infringing on liberties etc?

    Rural Republicans already fear three letter federal agencies: BLM, ATF, etc. Play to their fears, this very low hanging fruit, Democrats.

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    If this was germany, people showing up like this would spark an instant large-scale police operation. just saying. Germany. you know?

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    Where’s the well regulated militia you Americans scream about so loudly when someone suggests not letting a mentally ill child own an assault rifle?

    Isn’t this exactly the government tyranny that argument is used to defend against?

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      Where’s the well regulated militia you Americans scream about

      So, one could argue that the well regulated militia in question is constituted by the National Guard, as they nominally are the armed forces of individual States, and can be nationalized under certain circumstances.

      Except for the fact that Trump just nationalized the California National Guard when he’s nominally not supposed to…

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        The way the legal system in the US works is just incredible. There are things that are very much illegal, but if the president does them apparently everyone is just fine with it.

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      They’re too busy gargling republican boot to bother rising up against the tyranny they’ve cried about for decades.

      To a unnerving amount of people’s surprise, they only cared about the power of the state when they thought it was being used improperly (having a tolerant democracy), and are more than happy to see it used the way they want (hurting brown people)

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        It’ll come for them at the finish. These brown shirts should pick up a history book. The people who helped the Nazis rise to power did not live to get to enjoy it.

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      Do you actually want an answer? I think you know the details aren’t suitable for a public forum.

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      The thing that I don’t get about those people is, what do they think the “well regulated” part means?

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    Dox all these fuckers. Attack and take their masks. Spread photos everywhere you can. Make their lives terrible. They’re not law enforcement they’re gestapo.

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      Democrats need to thoroughly clear out everyone in ICE as soon as they get the chance.

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        You’re still pushing that “my government is here for me” bullshit? You haven’t noticed but you’re gonna have to do that yourself boss.

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        I’ve wanted to suggest things like this, only frustration I can think of is, could you risk glittering an innocent bystander and having people accuse them of being ICE later.

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        Should try that die they use when you steal shit. That stuff lasts forever. How does one bulk buy that. Nothing a squirty water bottle, water gun or balloon couldn’t handle either.

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      ICE folks should raid banks. Gotta be people hiding in the safe right? And cops won’t stop them to ask questions, so win win!

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      Worse.

      Gestapo did not wear masks and they had their legal documentation/warrants ready and available. They were not hiding.

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        If camera phones and the internet were available then they absolutely would have hidden their face, in the beginning at least

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        I mean… In some ways maybe that is not worse. Perhaps there is some shame associated with working for ICE.

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          It’s not shame they feel, it’s about self-preservation. They know that if everyone knew who they were they would be reprisals.

          If anybody knew who any of these guys were, and worked out where they lived, I wouldn’t give them 24 hours. Eventually they’ll deport the wrong person and someone with a gun will decide that the ends justify the means, and that’ll be that. It will probably spark a massive military escalation on trump’s part, but it won’t matter to them.

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    I don’t have any horse in this race but… how ugly, dirty and bloody can this get in a state where gun owning and carrying is very common?

    And I’m not even considering bystanders caught in crossfire.

    How ugly can it get if someone decides to shoot on sight a gang like this? And other people join as they start hearing exchanged fire?

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      They want an excuse to implement martial law.

      If this happens then they have all the reason to bypass all due process and just oppress everyone.

      They want it to go this way. They wanted the National guard to get involved in California’s “riots”. They are looking for the excuse to throw out the courts, the house, the Senate, the supreme Court… Literally everyone from any say in what happens or any ability to overturn, stop or otherwise impede their ability to control everyone and everything.

      The fucking boot licker repubtards are making sure that it happens, and they’ll act like so many others, shocked, when they end up under the boot of the people they voted for.

      As an outsider looking in, this reality is extremely obvious to me. Is it somehow not clear to Americans?

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        It is clear to some of us.

        I’m trying to finish my degree and move to the EU.