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Fears mount over Kash Patel’s use of FBI to persecute leftwing protest groups
(www.theguardian.com)
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That can defend themselves. Not many will openly protest otherwise if the leaders get picked off like snacks at a buffet.
I don’t think that comes naturally to most USA leftists, most of whom only experienced how it used to be in the last 40 years.
It will take a while to learn again. Should look to see how the civil rights movements protected themselves and labor before that
How?
I understand this is a "guns are the answer because MURICA" dogwhistle but even if you do brutality matches every single weekend and train with nothing but a tricked out ar-15 with green tip bullets constantly AND have 20 other people who do the exact same thing and spend your weekdays training like SAS?
America has drones and missiles. And if you actually are the kind of threat the FBI can't stop they won't hesitate to tell every news network in the country to villify you worse than Barack Saddam Bin Laden himself.
This is the real problem once you get past the larpers who play call of duty and think that makes them an activist. Increasingly, by protesting you are making yourself the enemy of a state with the largest military on the planet whose entire country is already mostly covered by surveillance equipment (and even twitter tech is sufficient for analyzing the gaps to figure out where you are hiding).
So the issue is that small groups are vulnerable. We need large movements. And we need those movements to get a foothold before they get mowed down by a fat white kid who wants to shoot some n****rs.
But the second amendment? That shit is worthless. If it ever had ANY utility in posing a threat to a government (rather than being a backdoor way to speed up drafts) it would have been repealed instantly. Rather than being the rallying cry of the fascists themselves.
The 2A is there for a reason. This is the first time it's legitimately been needed.
Unfortunately the majority of its users appear to all be brownshirts in waiting.
Not all. And there are plenty of ways to defend a protest from the police without guns.
Yeah that's why I made sure to say "majority," but even that could just be my confirmation bias since the loudest 2A supporters are right wingers; I've never looked into how many left leaning people are also gun-owners but yes, I know they exist (and I have been thinking about becoming one of them).