• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    5 days ago

    Hey bud,

    This doesn’t apply to people they don’t want it to apply to. It never has.

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      5 days ago

      Hey bud.

      That’s all the more reason for people to exercise their right in the face of those trying to take it away from them.

      It doesn’t matter what they say. We shouldn’t respect their authority and should be preparing to challenge it.

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        4 days ago

        Cycle back a bit bud. Lets roll to the start:

        point one : lets shoot ice under 2A
        Me: 2A defense doesn’t apply to people they don’t want it to apply to

        You can warhgarrghhg after the fact all you like, but the fact is the way the US is going you should not be thinking your “constitutional rights” are going to protect you. Throughout US history under saner governments they’ve violated them as they see fit for demographics of their choosing.

        The current administration is not sane.

        IF your response to having this pointed out to you is to claim that the person pointing it out is boot gobbling and therefore never going to resist then you probably need to sit back a bit and think about your comprehension levels

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          The 2nd Amendment isn’t about legality, as much as a small enumeration of our natural rights. James Madison was against including a Bill of Rights because he felt that an actual list of rights was far too numerous, and had to be talked round to including a portion of the most important rights to be written down.

          It’s written down for us, the people, the citizens. It’s to remind us that we have inalienable rights that cannot be taken from us by a tyrannical government, big or small. That we have these rights inherent to our very being.

          From the Declaration of Independence:

          " When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

          We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

          –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

          Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

          But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. "

          (Broke it up for readability)

          My point with this is that the only defense that matters at this section of time is social defense. If I end up on the jury for someone who shot someone who was masked up as ICE. In no way would I ever consider them guilty, regardless of the events. It is socially acceptable in my eyes to kill an individual in a gestapo like organization. That’s just self defense/defense of a third party, as they represent an actual threat, even if an individual’s current actions aren’t threatening.

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            4 days ago

            Your entire screed still relies on there being rules of social order

            Fascism 101: they don’t play by these. Think such a thing in america is preposterous? Then you are not paying attention because due process is already being fucked harder than caligula’s favourite watermelon.

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              Friend, you may want to actually read the “Screed”. You’ll see I was agreeing with you, and pointing out that it’s down to us the people, that “legality” doesn’t matter at all.

              But go off I guess, lol.

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      5 days ago

      Hey bud, not standing up ensures more lie down forcefully. Will you still defend inaction when you are the one with the boot on your neck?

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        5 days ago

        The fact you literally cannot comprehend resistance without shooting someone is almost as breathtaking as your ignorance of power structures

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          The fact you literally cannot comprehend that any form of resistance will be met with violence of state oppression, disguised as “enforcing law and order”, and that people should be prepared to defend themselves when they attempt to challenge the status quo is as breathtaking as your own ignorance of power structures.

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            The state will enact violence upon people regardless. If you’re going to be unlawfully deported to a country that has basically offered to enslave and torture the people sent there by the USA - then why not defend yourself? The violence will happen no matter how you behave. More violence will happen to other people if you do not. If a critical number of people choose to defend themselves, the federal government will be unable to continue inflicting violence.