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The Arab Spring is a great case study on why that type of resistance will never happen in the USA. The proliferation of social media was a key spark in those movements. Let's take a look at what stance those platforms take today:

Eh, I feel like every day there's a new story of Tesla's being torched. That's a pretty directed and forceful form of protest that gets no credit.

Also, it's not like America never has large scale protests. Hundreds of thousands of people fill the National Mall pretty regularly, skimming Wikipedia I counted 14+ since 1950 of over 200,000.

Just 5 years ago 15m-26m people participated in some especially roudy protests across all 50 states, but no credit for that either.

Large protests that get even slightly out of line in the USA usually end with:

• well armed, paramilitary police violently dispersing everyone
• the CIA assassinating protest leaders
• and/or the 6 media conglomerates suppressing coverage at the behest of the ~15 people that own them

If you're criticizing Americans for anything, it should be for their response to that and not their ability to organize and orchestrate protests.

True, and I'd agree on the civil war point.

If you're prepping for an invasion your best bet would be supporting wartime mobilizations instead of personal defense. Bootstrapping a total war economy is no joke.

Your government can probably handle the logistics of recruiting/arming/training people better than local defense cells. However, even if you're not enlisted they'll still need people to work the factories, drive the trucks, sell war bonds, etc...

If I'm ever on camera smiling and waving an American flag, the rest of the world better watch closely as I try to blink all the atrocities in Morse code...

🤠🇺🇲 [p l e a s e - l i b e r a t e - u s]

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/01/111286/access-guns-increases-risk-suicide-homicide

https://time.com/6183881/gun-ownership-risks-at-home/

It makes sense, more proximity to a weapon is more potentially deadly encounters. An intruder very rarely enters your house, but you pass the gun safe in your closet every day.

Those powers derive from the act, it gives that wartime authority. If you read the official proclamation Trump invented a "war" on gangs to use the same powers.

You can read Roosevelt's proclamation here, it's basically the same document shifted around to target Venezuelans.

I understand, I'm trying to communicate how that isn't as big of a protection as it seems.

The very same Alien Enemies Act sent US citizens of Japanese descent to internment camps. That's not a hypothetical, it's a line that has already been crossed.

People with Visas, permanent residents and immigrants. The administration's argument for the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil explicitly states that his residency rights are void since "we didn't know he was a Terrorist at the time". You can extend that argument to literally any foreign born individual.

50% is napkin projection based on 20% suppression every three months (0.80^3^). Obviously it makes a lot of assumptions but the crackdowns haven't slowed yet, much less plateaued. I mentioned it to show how tenuous opposition can get even for "safe" demographics.

The administration is already posturing for this suppression: labeling vague groups like antifa as terrorists, threatening funding for universities fostering protests, statements about "illegal protests", invoking the Alien Enemies Act, etc... It's not a huge leap to extrapolate to how sweeping these measures will be.

Lol we're all trying to get to the same goal, take a few deep breaths...

If you don't live in America and can't engage in domestic political activity, frothing at the mouth isn't gonna do shit to change who gets elected president. Why not support the people genuinely trying to make a difference instead of demonizing them? Expecting them to throw away their political capital just to show solidarity accomplishes nothing.

The investigators found that neither ICE nor U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) maintain good enough records to determine just how many people the agencies arrested or deported in error.

It's like 6 sentences in.

We've already narrowed that vast majority down quite a bit, I would bet anything that a visa (much less a green card) holder wouldn't face this much retaliation in October 2023.

There are about 50 million foreign-born residents in America, so in 3 months this administration has frozen the political voice of ~15% of the population.

They make up ~20% of the working age population, so if you're someone in the get-out-and-protest demographic that gives you decent odds of it theoretically not ending poorly. I guess you could say that's a vast majority, but it was nearly 100% before.

We're on pace for 50% suppression by the end of the year (20% silenced in a single quarter) and punishment will certainly be retroactive. You can understand the dilemma of 50/50 future odds you end up in jail for exercising your constitutional rights.

Let me know what military concentration camp you get shipped off to, if we're lucky we can meet up and organize a protest (no shitlibs invited of course, they can stay in their tents)