• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Reminder that police who do not identify themselves are not police.

    It is legal to kill in self defense or defense of others if unidentifiable people are trying to abduct people off the street.

    It’s moral to do so even

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      It may be legal on paper or by social media lawyers but courts and federal judges will be quick to ignore all that shit. Also I don’t know about you but me pulling out an EDC to defend against a team of highly trained and equipped like they are taking a stroll through Baghdad Red Zone circa 2007 seems like unfavorable odds for me. I like living sometimes.

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        No one wants to die, everyone needs to make the right decisions for themselves, and for legal reasons I would never advocate for violence.

        However…

        …turned out to be a bit of a surprise for the world’s most powerful military.

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        I’d be less worried about the courts, which might actually look in your favor, and more worried about having to potentially fight multiple armed and body armored assailants. That’s not to say disagree with you though. If you’re well-armed and confident, go for it.

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          If they were trained they’d probably not be constantly afraid of everything and would be able to hit their targets more often than they hit innocent bystanders.

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    21 hours ago

    Is he that scared of Eptein information coming out that he’s going to occupy American cities to get the media to forget?

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      I’m like 99% sure he’s doing this to have control over DC law enforcement so that when he does some absolutely outrageous thing that will cause a mass riot he’ll be ready to crush it. :/

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        That’s what I think. I also imagine not all of the tanks he brought in for his little celebration left.

        Mix in flattening the rose garden you could see him wanting to have a firm open clearing there for defences.

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      No, that is the distraction, so you can keep talking about the files while he occupies American cities.

      Wake up.

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        19 hours ago

        Neither are “The Distraction”. Both are salient issues being done, right now.

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          Pshh, as you type a response to my distraction I’m headed right for your cookie jar.

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      Yes, but it can be two things.

      Remember, he’s not only a demented rapist fraud, he’s also a tool of russia.

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      It’s really a sign of the times that “Removed by moderator” is quickly becoming a stand in for the call to action we all know is long overdue.

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        Nowhere in my comment did I call for violence 🤷‍♂️ the mods must have a direct line to big balls or something

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          You absolutely were (though I disagree with it being removed)

          It would be horrible if they ramped up the rate at which they’re doing it in DC.

          Sarcasm isn’t a magic cloak of deniability.

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            What? I’m sorry you believe you can detect sarcasm through text, but that’s only possible through assumptions and projection. My comment very literally is against it.

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              Did the author die, or was it murder?

              Sarcasm and irony can both be expressed through text, and neither require projection or assumption (beyond that required to establish basic context (like language)) when written or when expressed verbally. Why are you trying to pretend that’s not the case, when the whole of the written canon is full of thousands of years of ample examples to the contrary?

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      There’s fun scene in burn notice where they fill a can with thermite (aluminum and rust), put in on a gangster’s hood and make him watch it burn through his engine block. This was pre drones and shit. Doesn’t have much to do with this you just reminded me.

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      the district is an entirely different animal than portland or any other city within the fifty states.

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    He tested it in California, now is going after DC. Next will be New York until eventually he will get to all states.

    Remember that it is much easier to stop 1 10,000 people protest than 10 1,000 people protests.

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    If the DC police just storm the Whitehouse and supreme Court, and publicly execute every Trump cronie they come across I think they’ll find some really nice bonuses under the tree this year

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      I am expending all my psychic energy all week on getting him to trip and fall down the Air Force 1 steps this Friday.

      And I invite all my fellow citizens of planet Earth to do the same.

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    Christ, he called out the statues again.

    He and his racist base are just so butthurt about statues. So he’s going to occupy a city to…1. protect racist statues, 2. go after the homeless, and 3. remove slums.

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      My dad (RIP) became nuts over civil war statues. I don’t remember him ever saying anything hot/cold fora long time one way or another about the Confederacy even though we lived near Shiloh Military Park. We talked about Civil War kind of stuff normally for years, but then all of a sudden he was 100% white hot on Civil War statues and would not entertain anything but total agreement. He would slam the phone down on me and then call right back to chew me out if I didn’t instantly and fully agree with what he was saying about they are part of our history and should be protected. He’d park in front of the county courthouse to make sure that nothing happened to the statue there. I felt like he was acting the same way that I did when I was a dumb idiot and getting mad about all the wrong things.