Comment on Elon Musk LIVE | Americans Erupt Against DOGE, Protests Outside US Treasury Building Snowball

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If we start burning cars, we likely start getting shot. Remember this is the USA we’re talking about here. Maybe it needs to come to that, but don’t judge people for trying to avoid the kind of crackdown Trump would likely enact given any excuse.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I get that people have a self preservation instinct, but they will just slowly get cooked in the frog pot instead. I hope i am wrong.

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    • coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t think you are wrong, sadly :(

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  • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t you have guns too?

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Here’s a reminder that the Black Panthers got started because cops kept violently busting peaceful unarmed protests. People realized that the cops would send in the jackboots to bust unarmed protests… But they would politely watch heavily armed protests from across the street. So they began arming protestors.

      Turns out, firing into an unarmed crowd is super easy, but it’s not so easy when the entire crowd also has weapons. Maybe you take out a few with your initial attack, but you definitely didn’t get all of them and now they can return fire.

      It’s also why republicans started modern gun control with the Mulford Act. It was (at least at the time) the most restrictive gun control law the country had ever seen. When politicians saw armed protestors on their front porch, and saw cops entirely unwilling to stop it? They got really fucking sweaty really fucking fast. Ronald Reagan (yes, the same Reagan that conservatives love to put on a pedestal as the paragon of conservative policy) enacted the gun control law to disarm protestors and give cops justification to bust armed protests. Now, instead of busting the protest directly when it’s happening, cops could wait and quietly follow the protestors home, then kick in their front doors while they were eating dinner… Sound familiar?

      This pushed the armed protestors underground, and formed the Black Panthers.

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    • slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Some people choose to have guns. They’re not cheap, and not everyone over here is willing to kill someone else.

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  • nthavoc@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t encourage anyone to sacrifice themselves on the alter of idiocy either. Be tactful out there.

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