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Where are your militias against government Tyranny? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Jarix@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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American Militia Members. Where the hell are you? THIS is what you exist for and you are doing NOTHING!

Edit: I've only heard "defense against tyranny" as justification for these militias by these militia

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Successful Leftist organizers like the Black Panther Party are stamped out by the State, leaving only far-right millitias in any real number.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm convinced that this is it. There's a dual track effort to defang leftists through first heavily propagandizing the success of "pure" non-violent movements by removing them from their context, then by aggressively stamping out the groups that move past that. The first part is why you see so many people saying "well, why don't we just march again and wave more signs?" The state has done a very, very, very good job of convincing people that peaceful assembly without the threat of unpeaceful assembly behind it means a goddamn thing.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

Spot-on! Just look at the historical revisionism surrounding the roles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, the US mythologizes the Civil Rights Movement and erases the more millitant actions that forced their hand. See the shunning of Nelson Mandela for appreciating the aid Fidel Castro and Cuba at large had sent, followed by the revision of Mandela himself in popular western view. It's through these distortions and bluntings of real, working class victories fought and paid in blood in ways that prevent the modern working class from following in their predecessor's footprints.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Waiting for their orders to start killing brown folks.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 days ago

94% of Militia members in the US are foaming at the mouth reactionaries if not open fascists, with many being active or former law enforcement or related to military or intelligence.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

There was supposed to be a well regulated militia.

The militia we have are gravy seals and Y’all Qaeda who want to dismantle regulation and rights.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (11 children)

If you expect your enemies to die fighting for your beliefs while you sip a latte and post memes then you're unfathomably fucking stupid. Right wingers care about stopping communism. Guess whose job it is to stop fascism?

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[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

Most of the "militias" support this tyranny. They're celebrating

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If the anti fascists of the US actually started arming themselves en masse, I think it would be a net positive effect.

Either you have more armed anti fascists able to fight back, or the fascists panic and begin banning guns, causing the fools who follow them to actually think twice about their beliefs.

Nothing gets far right followers more riled up than someone threatening to take their firearms.

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[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

“Not all tyranny is bad”

-maga dumbshits

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

if you count urban terrorism, we have Atleast three groups. All of them communist or communist in name.

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[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

We were assured that the guns were there for protection and the many thousand child-sized coffins were just the cost of freedom; A trade-off because tyrants were lurking right outside the door.

Now a tyrant has taken over with barely any resistance and it seems that all those children died for nothing.

Shameful.

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

Oh, honey...