• Turret3857@infosec.pub
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    13 hours ago

    The personal anecdote has nothing to do with the people who as I’ve already stated, are already doing everything they can, short of suicide. You interacted with pieces of shit in NYC, one if the most densely populated areas of the country which produced the current president, and are basing your entire view of the country off of those people. I’m not going to sit here and deny your experience, I’m sure they were assholes. Saying the entirety of the people who want to stop the current admin are just like those people is ignorant. Saying that people should openly go and get themselves killed is ignorant. We are the minority. By numbers alone, we can be trampled over and taken care of. We do not have the might of the US armed forced behind us. You are asking us to walk into a meat shredder for fodder. It would be nothing more than a performance, then the US would only be left with the fascists currently in place. Do you really think that would be the world we want to be in, where there is no opposition? Because as it stands we have nothing. The non-MAGA cultists dont have tanks. We dont have missiles, we dont have tear gas and mustard gas. The most any of us have is maybe a semi-automatic rifle. Believe what you want, but as it stands your idea of “fighting back” is handing the country to the fascists on a golden plate.

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      11 hours ago

      The excuses are vile. NY is full of assholes. Most of your gang are vilifying southerners not New Yorkers. Enjoy the dictatorship and camps. No one could have prevented this and no one can stop it but you…yet here we all are watching your citizens, judges and lawmakers arrested, deported, sent to concentration camps and even killed. Unknown men in masks abducting people from the street, their homes, work and even courthouses. Your federal government attacking countries with bombs and support for genocide for no reason other than greed. That’s the American way. You all just sit and watch it happen and say but they have guns.

      I truly wish you would fight back because eventually it will be my problem. Your drumphkins won’t stop at imaginary lines on a map. He hasn’t thus far. I won’t sit at home and cower when it happens and I can assure you many Canadians are already organized for just that circumstance. Perhaps we will die. But we will try and not roll over like a beaten dog. You seem to have.

      There are many examples from the recent past of people with less fighting the American military might with sweet fuck all. The Taliban did it for two decades and never once lost control. Why? Not because they have missiles and rocket launchers but because they’re organized. Ukraine stood duo to what was thought at the time to be the second strongest army in the world. They still stand up today. They didn’t lie down either and I doubt they ever will. Sure they had an organized army but a small one with very little training or modern equipment. No navy boats. Pretty much a non existent Airforce as well.

      Americans however are cowards. Plain and simple. Unwilling to fight for themselves, their families or their rights. Every suggestion we could possibly make is met with disdain and the cry of it’s impossible. Yet others have done it multiple times in other places. Even to your own military that is supposedly impossible to fight.

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        13 hours ago

        Okay, I’ll go fight back with my fuckin NOTHING. I have some kitchen knives, maybe I can do something with that. I have a car that needs to be repaired every 2 weeks, let me go ride that into battle. “The excuses are vile” dawg youre fucking vile thinking I have anything to FIGHT WITH OTHER THAN MY BODY. I AM NOT BULLET PROOF. but yeah I’ll go get myself KILLED so when the magats get to your house you can die faster too. Instead of fighting us in courtrooms and in protests they won’t have to fight us at all because we gave them a reason to kill us.

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          Unreal. So you’re organizing everyone you know to stop going to work right? Supporting one another. Making sure a general strike is successful. Even a minority can close down an economy by refusing to work. Know what you need for that? Maybe a pen and some paper. Some phone numbers. To go out in the street every day. Meet your neighbors. Talk to them face to face. Find like minded individuals. You know fighting.

          Know what I’ll be literally fighting with in Canada? My feet. Extensive emergency Medical skills. Maybe some cocktails And a 303 my grandfather shot Nazis with. I’m still gonna go up against tanks and weapons I don’t even understand because it matters and the world will see and perhaps because I am standing up for myself someone else will stand up with me.

          Somehow I doubt it you’re doing any of that though. There’s an excuse for that as well. But you’d rather yell at me on the internet about your mighty military and how they’re going to slaughter you. Defeatist indeed. No wonder your country is so fucked.

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            12 hours ago

            Nice goalpost shift there, going from LITERAL COMBAT back to protesting and striking, something I already participate in and support, as said in my first reply.

            Nice try.

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              Indeed. Let’s return.

              See any of those news reports with Ukrainian families filling glass bottles with gasoline and styrofoam? Kids, moms, dads, Babas. Everyone. Hmmmmmmm. I believe they probably had nothing else. Yet there they are. Still fighting.

              Brown people in deserts using old cell phones and a bit of explosives found at many construction sites and farms destroyed your military. Killed thousands with minimal losses. The Vietnamese did it with shit smeared on sticks in the jungle and hand dug tunnel systems. Your news broadcast it broadly. I see it here in Canada.

              Probably not. Too busy being a slave and ignoring the world.

              And so where is your strike? Where are the organized not on sunny Saturdays? You’ve had months. Your peaceful Saturday protests are very effective fighting fascism.