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• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t know that the masses can go toe to toe with the US police forces, ICE, and all the Rittenhouse wannabes that come out lookin’ to kill and be acquitted. Maybe, but it’ll be a bloodbath because the violence of ICE has normalized that even unarmed protestors simply protesting (or not) are executable. There’s also the issue that even if you’re not killed, everyone’s a “terrorist” and any act of resistance can be “terrorism”. It would be a lot of John Browns until someone already in power withdrew from federal compliance and used their authority to protect their citizens and city/state. Even then, I don’t think local police forces would comply. Their power is now tied to maintaining conservative power, they’d go rogue before they broke with MAGA. I’d also point out that MAGAts use civil disruption as cover to loot, burn, and cover their own violence both for personal gain and to make the cause look bad.

  Until we are united and coordinated enough to make sure we’re not getting slaughtered and played, there’s always malicious compliance, weaponized inefficiency, and some others.

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