• BertramDitore@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Been having similar thoughts. We’ll very soon be back in the age of internment camps, reporting on neighbors’ behavior, and minorities looking over their shoulders even more than usual. I am ashamed of us.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      “Shoot them in the brains, if you want to live, shoot them in the brains, even the little kids!” ~~ Leslie Hall

      I mean, she was talking about zombies, buuuuut, is there really a difference?

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    6 hours ago

    Liberals: “BAN GUNS!”

    How’s that working out for you? Good luck on the trains.

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      3 hours ago

      Because having a revolver or a rifle or something is going to really do anything if the government comes after you personally.

      Any actual resistance movement capable of achieving much is going to find a way to arm itself regardless of if the country theyre from allowed guns during peacetime or not, they seem to in other countries that such things have formed in after all. Could be through illicit purchases from elsewhere, or homemade weapons, or theft, or whatever else, it always seems to happen.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        60 minutes ago

        The best a resistance group can hope for is being damaging enough to choke their enemy little by little while also being hard to root out without causing collateral damage. Because what are AR-15s or whatever else you can get your hands on going to do against the army’s helicopter drones armed with sniper rifles and 360 degree cameras that can detect a target within milliseconds in a kilometer radius just through the reflection on their eye.

        As George Washington once said, “A bunch of farmers armed with guns will never win against a trained army.”

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        25 minutes ago

        Presidential candidate, gun owner, VP candidate gun owner. (Both lost). Candidate that won… Says he likes to take away the guns early and deal with the process later.

        People spew nonsense

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    7 hours ago

    Why worry about that while you carry a spying device with you everywhere you go?

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      7 hours ago

      Having a device that can be used for surveillance is not the same thing as someone actively choosing to report their neighbor.