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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)

Thanks, I appreciate it 🙏

Saying that the right to protest is exclusive to citizens is certainly an... interesting stance...

But looking just at citizens: ICE has already harassed and arrested scores of citizens based on racial profiling. The agency deported as many as 70 citizens during Trump's first term.

There have been allegations of more US citizen deportations in these first 3 months of his presidency. I can dredge up those examples if you'd like, but don't have them readily on hand.