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Despite advertising themselves as such, the party hasn't been for actual small government at least during my entire lifetime (40+ years).
by seattle_spring 4mo ago
Despite advertising themselves as such, the party hasn't been for actual small government at least during my entire lifetime (40+ years).
- rustcleaner 4mo ago[flagged]
- hmry 4mo agoUS still has the second amendment and the most guns per person of any country in the world (more than 10x the average), yet I don't see anybody "fight back against the benefactors"
- YeahThisIsMe 4mo agoThe people who are really into guns and the second amendment are somehow on the side of their oppressors.
- Yiin 4mo agofew years ago they weren't
- ffsm8 4mo agoFfs, Trump is not an oppressor. You're not helping by pointlessly exaggerating things, you'll only derail the discussion.
- wolvoleo 4mo agoYeah if you're straight and white he's not
- ffsm8 4mo ago[flagged]
- arcatech 4mo ago> You either have lost touch with reality so far to be unable to understand what "oppressed" means or you're just parotting someone else who suffers from that affliction. This 100% applies to you. If you can’t see ICE actions as oppressive, you’ve definitely lost touch with reality.
- ffsm8 4mo agoICE is just enforcing law. Also they're enforcing the law regardless of the skim color. There are plenty of white people which have been removed from the USA by ICE, consequently invalidating the previous thesis of it being about white/straight people. Complete brainrot...
- arcatech 4mo ago> ICE is just enforcing law. "This changed in June 2025, just weeks after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, reportedly frustrated with the slow increase in ICE arrests, called the head of every ICE Field Office into a room in Washington, DC and ordered them to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.” Following this meeting, the Trump administration launched its first splashy raid of an American city, sending hundreds of agents into Los Angeles and sparking fiery confrontations between protestors and federal agents." [0] That's what you're talking about when you say "just enforcing the law"? > Also they're enforcing the law regardless of the skim color. "Publicly available ICE and research datasets show clear shifts in who is being arrested and detained—large growth in interior arrests and detention of people without U.S. criminal convictions and major variation across states—but they do not provide a consistent, complete public breakdown of ICE arrests and detention by race and nationality at the county level, so any precise county-level racial or national origin tallies are not available from the cited public sources." [1] So how do you know that? Are you just guessing? You're accusing me of the exact thing you're doing. Honestly it sounds to me like you're the one suffering from some serious brainrot. [0]: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-arrest-statistics-americans-noncriminals/ https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-arrest-s... [1]: https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/ice-arrests-detention-statistics-by-race-nationality-county-level-71d024 https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/ice-arrests-detenti...
- dudefeliciano 4mo ago> D takes away guns from the population so they can't effectively fight back against the benefactors Please remind us when Democrats have "taken away guns", and while you're at it when were those small arms last used to fight back against a tyrannical government?
- rustcleaner 4mo ago[flagged]
- dudefeliciano 4mo agoNeither of those are "taking away your guns" and you forgot to answer my second question. Is concealed carry essential to overthrow a tyrannical government?
- rustcleaner 4mo agoIt raises the risks for the enforcers taking a paycheck to oppress the [subset of the] population. Bullies think twice when they can be punched square in the face.
- dudefeliciano 4mo agoRiiiiight, it doesn't just make the bully invest billions in military grade weapons to be used against civilians. Soon you'll have superdrones with superguns patrolling the US and you will still be clinging to your right to carry a musket.
- boppo1 4mo ago2A people don't want the right to carry a musket, they want the right to those same superdrones. You are framing their desires in bad faith.
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- tdeck 4mo agoThe US has plenty of guns. The idea that there aren't sufficient guns for some kind of armed resistance is absurd. The issue is cultural - we'd apparently rather fire them off in schools and malls and movie theaters.
- hurtigioll 4mo agohow useful will those guns be against an army of AI driven drones just look at what's going on in Ukraine right now
- boppo1 4mo agoMore than you'd think but it'd get unbelievably ugly. Reign of terror would look like a cakewalk.