The point of an armed populace in term of protecting freedoms is for the people to have enough combined firepower to make tyranny impractical. It’s been proven time and again that an armed citizen insurgency can defeat the US military.

If 150,000 armed Democrats started taking pot shots at ICE any time they saw them, there would be nothing the Trump admin could do short of nuking the city.

But if I had been there on Tuesday with my gun and started shooting at ICE by myself, all I’d have accomplished is getting myself killed and giving Trump more ammunition.

The non-GOP party spent the last 40 years demonizing guns and disarming themselves.

That’s how it worked out.

Schindler opened his first factory with Jewish workers in Krakow in 1939. WWII didn’t end until 1945.

Schindler was able to save lives because the Nazis leadership didn’t realize what he was doing. If they had known he was using a work camp to effectively hide and protect Jews, the camp would have been shut down and Schindler killed.

Also, there’s lots of civil servants out there who have nothing to do with this. I work in municipal government, and we’re not cooperating with the feds on anything.

Yeah. They release info that can be tied back to him, and someone searches the appraisal district records for a house under his name, and things get bad.

Especially if he isn’t in appraisal district records (because he lives out of the county, or doesn’t own a home, or the house is under an LLC, etc), but someone else with the same name is in the records.

Lots of jurisdictions are blocking the site now, necessitating VPNs to access the site.

There’s probably a higher percentage of Linux adoption among VPN users.

The feds have all the evidence, as well as access to the murderer who they’ve surely already removed from the state.

I don’t know if it’s still tru, but they used to be the number one steak restaurant in the country because their streaks were so cheap.

I don’t know for sure in Minneapolis, but in most places the Mayor and Council don’t actually have the authority to directly hire and fire officers. Most cities the politicians only appoint judges and a city manager/administrator.

It would be like a President trying to fire a specific employee of an agency. FBI agent John Smith can’t be fired by the President. That’s why executive appointments matter so much. Patel isn’t qualified to run the FBI, but he’ll fire who the President wants gone, which is the only qualification Trump cared about.

I made a comment that’s entire point is that the US is bad at occupations because it can’t deal with insurgencies. You countered with examples of it being defeated by insurgencies. I pointed out that those examples were insurgencies, and now you’re acting like it’s some kind of sudden twist in my argument that I think they’re bad against insurgencies.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to argue. Are you just not capable of agreeing with someone without being a dick about it?

That’s intentional. They need us to be wage slaves to keep us too busy to fight back.

When the butchers at a single Walmart successfully formed a tiny union, Walmart responded by firing every butcher in every store in the company and switching to pre-packaged meats only.

The other side convinced itself that guns are bad and disarmed themselves, so 90% of the guns are owned by the fascists.

Vietnam was a long time ago, Afghanistan didn’t really have a traditional military, and the Iraq military was absolutely curb-stomped by the Americans.

The US military is unrivaled in its ability to effectively defeat an enemy military. It’s proven pretty shitty at dealing with insurgencies and guerilla tactics.

Fighting against the US military with a tank or jet is a losing proposition. But randos with small arms and improvised explosives have performed pretty well.

Pleb - only poor people get the S. Real office drones need the Series X One S Slim X Pro X.

Unfortunately, it’s not really an option for most professionals. They don’t get to choose what software their organizations use, and are stuck with Microsoft products.

That just pushed me over the edge into full-on ugly crying.

Maduro may have needed to go, but that isn’t Trump’s decision to make unilaterally. And by allowing Trump to do this we’re giving him permission to enact his will anywhere. Drugs also come from Mexico, can he invade them? How about Minnesota? What if he decided that Greenland deserves freedom from Europe?

And if Trump can do it, why shouldn’t Xi be allowed to invade Taiwan? And what the hell - let’s let Putin have Finland and Netanyahu have Jordan, so long as they super duper totally believe they’re liberating people.

Jake: I want to be a writer

Sisko: Is that Bill Shakespeare over there?