Endless War

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Trump: Chicago [is] about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR (www.npr.org)

submitted 6 days ago by humanspiral@lemmy.ca to c/endlesswar@lemmy.ca

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we sometimes worry about US civil war as an insurrection instead of as an ethnic cleansing operation or an oppression operation as political distraction from oligarchist corporatism.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is, and it isn't. Politicians who are pro 2nd amendment to kill the Leftist scum aren't specifically against their tyranny. Your guns usually are insufficient resistance against regular swat teams, or tank/bomber equipped national guard.

The bigger deal is that the constitution is of zero threat to US government authority. The bill of rights has always been a mere pleasantry to make you think you are free. Rebellion is not something agreeable to government, and therefore, you must be killed to actually apply the anti-tyranny interpretation of 2nd amendment.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

I'm not going to sit here and pretend that 2a means shit to the future of any leftist movement in the US. They certainly won't be used to overthrow any tyrants but they may slow them down a bit.

FWIW I would have to disagree that guns are not efficient resistance against SWAT.

There are plenty of cases to point to where the feds had quite a hard time because of a couple dudes with rifles. Sure the feds usually end up "winning" but it would have taken a lot less time and energy to do what they did at Waco or Ruby Ridge if the only people who were armed were the feds.

On that note, you don't really ever hear about ICE going after actual armed cartel members and I wonder if that's just because they are chicken shit little babies that only want to bully people they can outgun?

Seems like just the idea that they might lose one or two "good men" in the process goes a long way in preventing bullies (chicken shit little babies) from bullying.