Successful Leftist organizers like the Black Panther Party are stamped out by the State, leaving only far-right millitias in any real number.
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I'm convinced that this is it. There's a dual track effort to defang leftists through first heavily propagandizing the success of "pure" non-violent movements by removing them from their context, then by aggressively stamping out the groups that move past that. The first part is why you see so many people saying "well, why don't we just march again and wave more signs?" The state has done a very, very, very good job of convincing people that peaceful assembly without the threat of unpeaceful assembly behind it means a goddamn thing.
Spot-on! Just look at the historical revisionism surrounding the roles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, the US mythologizes the Civil Rights Movement and erases the more millitant actions that forced their hand. See the shunning of Nelson Mandela for appreciating the aid Fidel Castro and Cuba at large had sent, followed by the revision of Mandela himself in popular western view. It's through these distortions and bluntings of real, working class victories fought and paid in blood in ways that prevent the modern working class from following in their predecessor's footprints.
Waiting for their orders to start killing brown folks.
There was supposed to be a well regulated militia.
The militia we have are gravy seals and Yβall Qaeda who want to dismantle regulation and rights.
If you expect your enemies to die fighting for your beliefs while you sip a latte and post memes then you're unfathomably fucking stupid. Right wingers care about stopping communism. Guess whose job it is to stop fascism?
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Most of the "militias" support this tyranny. They're celebrating
βNot all tyranny is badβ
-maga dumbshits
if you count urban terrorism, we have Atleast three groups. All of them communist or communist in name.
I'm responding to groups self identifying as a militia, and that claim to exist as a check against tryanny. For what is worth
We were assured that the guns were there for protection and the many thousand child-sized coffins were just the cost of freedom; A trade-off because tyrants were lurking right outside the door.
Now a tyrant has taken over with barely any resistance and it seems that all those children died for nothing.
Shameful.
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Oh, honey...
Government tyranny? Militias are (in the parlance of our times) here for it.
They'll fight against Border Patrol, and even plot to kill them sometimes, but only when they think they aren't doing enough.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48029360
https://time.com/6141322/border-vigilantes-militias-us-mexico-immigrants/
https://www.wired.com/story/border-militias-immigrants-trump/
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/07/border-el-paso-fbi-investigation/
Have been for a while. Probably for ever. True of probably any country.
I really wonder how it would work in a country that big in empty spaces and populations with so much authoritarian actors.
Each county has a well armed police force. Nearly each state has an armed force millitia. The country has a national guard. It also has several armed agencies. It has the three biggest armies on earth if you separate each corp and only count active soldiers. It has so much millitary equipment the overflow gets sold to polices.
Those armed millitia are all in different counties, are smaller than the local police forces, with less weapon and next to no organizational know how... They would never be able to have any other impact than get outgunned in a remote place by cops or the national guard...
Unless they all start to cause chaos at the same time, which would maybe lead to a semi destabilization of some part of the USA, I don't see these people with guns achieve anything.
Also most people who wants guns are scared/anxious persons and will talk loud about using them but won't act when it's time, because their real motivation is hiding a percived weaknesses with a weapon.
That's why in all the years of abuse by the insurance system in America, there was only one Luidgi.
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