• Jay@lemmy.ca
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    It would be a shame if we crowdsourced the same idea to track them with “publicly available information”

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    We’re not far off from The Smith Act making a comeback. That “we’re going to arrest people who attended a meeting once” stuff is in living memory. The US has never lived up to its stated ideals.

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    includes a disclaimer warning that some relationships shown are based on analytical inferences rather than established affiliations.

    Since they can’t differentiate AI slop and reality, they’re going to make more shit up.

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    To be clear, this is a personal project of the employee. Not a government project that the employee built.

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    So they’re easier to find and donate to?

    Can we get a list of services members of the DSA offer that we can use? An anti-boycott or “Socialist Club” where socialists support businesses owned by Socialist?

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    turns out learning to share in kindergarten was actually a communist plot

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    Statistics: Right Wing extremism is responsible for 80% of all domestic acts of terrorism.

    Republicans: 1 IN EVERY FIVE DEMOCRATS IS A TERRORIST.

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        It’s not. They’re doing it as a form of political intimidation. It’s a problem that the second amendment in America exists to solve

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            Oh a number of times throughout American history.

            The most popular single example of which was the Battle of Athens, where returning WW2 veterans used firearms to fight back against their corrupt local government that was using police brutality and voter intimidation to remain in power.

            Then there’s the rabbit hole of the whole Jim Crow era of American history. Back then local law enforcement was often allied or directly members of the Ku Klux Klan and would harass black communities at night. These communities would form an armed militia to protect their neighbors from government sanctioned violence.

            Ultimately, the whole anti-gun debate hinges on public trust of the government and law enforcement. You limit the possession of guns to people in positions of public trust and allow them to police the community and keep you safe from danger. When those people are the danger however, you only have America’s legal system to defend you. We obviously don’t allow the police to be openly corrupt. However what happens when all branches of government to the highest level are corrupt and you become an enemy of the state? Appeasing the government by giving up the one measly way you have of resisting them is not going to spare you.

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                Oh no there are plenty of other examples involving federal agencies, but they’re far more rare. A big part of how the second amendment helps is that it prevents the government from even trying. It’s much harder to quietly disappear people in the middle of the night with secret police when the attempt would cause a loud and deadly shootout that would rile up the rest of the rabble nationwide. You’ll have noticed how even our currently blatantly corrupt government had to save face and fire top officials after just two people died in open confrontation with police. Dozens of armed standoffs nationwide would not be conducive to their plans.

                The pentagon isn’t relevant, that’s a military institution.

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                  My bad, I went for the pentagon, since that was what the linked article was about. I always thought this was just a thing gun lovers said to themselves to justify keeping their murder weapons. I didn’t know things were actually so bad that, contrary to most of the rest of the civilised world, you really do need them to protect yourself from the government.

                  I sincerely hope for you can find a way out of that mess.