“No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”—James Madison, Federalist 4...
  • WizardofFrobozz
    111·
    5 months ago

    Thanks to every American citizen who won’t buy a box of bullets.

      • NeilBrü@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        5 months ago

        I have a firearm, but I’m an American living abroad. The country I’m in doesn’t allow pistols for personal/home defense, so I have it in a safe back home.

        A general wildcat strike is orders of magnitude more effective than armed rebellion against the U.S. government who has:

        • police forces with military-grade hardware
        • carrier battle groups
        • predator drones with hellfire missiles
        • 5th generation multirole fighter aircraft
        • tens of thousands of thugs posing as agents of law enforcement willing to gun down their countrymen in cold blood to maintain christian nationalist supremacy in what should be a secular federal republic

        If the militant leftists want to organize another January-6th-like insurrection, I’ll show up. I think even that is a fool’s errand.