>Just a few years ago, their own supporters were smugly saying that standing up to the government is a fantasy for paranoid whackjobs.

One dude in his home with a gun or two versus a 50 billion dollar ICE force that has complete immunity and a massive media and political empire ready to spin any bad incident into an us-versus-them narrative.....

Yeah, it is a fantasy. Oh, and if anything really gets out of hand, that political empire also has nuclear weapons.

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Ancapistani 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are you familiar with Chris Dorner?

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dabluecaboose 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thew whiplash from "Why isn't anyone fighting ICE???" to "the government will nuke us if we fight back" is frankly stunning

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NickC25 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Can't fight ICE because they have no laws they need to uphold, and they have an unlimited budget to buy tools to fight you with.

And the whiplash is quite small, if not nonexistent. Why? Because there's no depths to which this regime, which is openly hostile to its own population, won't go to assert power, as well as to maintain it.

	▲	dabluecaboose 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> there's no depths to which this regime, which is openly hostile to its own population, won't go to assert power, as well as to maintain it. Sounds like a regime worth fighting if that's what you believe, but it seems you've decided it's futile.

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beeflet 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>One dude in his home with a gun or two versus a 50 billion dollar ICE force that has complete immunity and a massive media and political empire ready to spin any bad incident into an us-versus-them narrative.....

How does legal immunity or a media empire affect a dead man?

>Oh, and if anything really gets out of hand, that political empire also has nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons are not very useful in a civil conflict... Or pretty much any conflict

	▲	NickC25 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>How does legal immunity or a media empire affect a dead man? If I have complete legal immunity from ANY of my actions, including killing someone, and there's a massive multi-trillion dollar media empire dedicated to creating regime-friendly narratives and supporting the leaders on "my side" at all costs, I can harass, defame, defraud, and kill you without hesitation whenever, wherever, and however I see fit, and I'll get no blowback. I'll get fans and supporters. Haven't we learned anything from history?