• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    California and New York should withhold federal taxes then

    Gonna be hard to pay for goons if you’ve got no money

    • OrangeSlice@lemmy.ml
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      56 minutes ago

      This would effectively be a secession from the United States, which would be extremely consequential and very violent.

      It’s a proposal that shouldn’t be made flippantly.

      • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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        I would rather the US become a war torn wasteland than let Trump invade Europe.

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          43 minutes ago
          • Europe needs to stop willingly subjugating itself to the US for its own good.
          • I guess if you don’t have anything at stake it isn’t up to you to navigate the consequences of a civil war. The US needs to decline for the good of the world, but unfortunately for it, it’s unable to produce competent leadership, so the process is more rough than it needs to be
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          Yeah I know, a civil war would be another escalation. I’m saying that the commentary should respect that fact, and respect the fact that if it pops off in 2026, the bad guys win 10/10 times because no preparation has been done whatsoever.

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    They’re already spread thin in MN, this will only make that worse. They’re already desperate to fill their ranks with enough bodies, this will only make that worse.

    ICE is currently, and is likely to remain, susceptible to infiltration by resistors.

    Any able-bodied people who are interested in offering non-violent resistance to preserve democracy should consider whether they’re willing to exploit this opportunity.

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      Thinking that ICE’s collapse is a forgone conclusion seems dangerous given how quickly they’re filling their ranks, and because of how much they are improving their strategies in the Minnesota demo. We should all be on the same page and understand that ICE’s power will flourish and their strategies will be refined in coming months. It’s time to prepare for a future in which ICE is successful, not cling to the hope that ICE is somehow doomed to fail.

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      The economy is getting worse and the bonuses ICE offers start to look better and better. People will get desperate.

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        ICE is an obvious attempt by the government to get ICE agents killed by democrats. Essentially fishing bait for a revolution.

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      Aren’t they offering something like 20K or 30K just for fucking signing up?

      At the same time the Taco economy is fucking up everyone’s livelihood?

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    didn’t all this somalia bullshit start with one deceptively edited youtube video? like the shit james o’keefe did at project veritas

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      2 hours ago

      Yep. The same tactics and the same racism, only more of a bullhorn now.

      Oh, and zero gatekeeping. Any fool can claim fucking anything and if it goes viral it’s just out there now. James O’Queefe had to sell his bullshit to take down ACORN to Faux News and hope other corporate outlets took up the same story.