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Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (2 children)

A serious message to all Americans:

Start planning for the worst. Buy and learn how to use a firearm. Get all your passports and documentation up to date and on hand in case you need to flee. Do not give them an excuse to deny your exit from the States as they will do this if your papers aren't all in order. Save up money in a foreign currency, learn a second language if you only know English.

Do whatever you need to do in order to be able to flee the country. It might sound like fear mongering, but it is better to be safe than sorry.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Tag yourself I'm

Sec. 5. Holding State and Local Officials Accountable. ... State and local jurisdictions whose officials:

(b) unlawfully engage in discrimination or civil-rights violations under the guise of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives that restrict law enforcement activity or endanger citizens.

smoking that white-washed MLK pack

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My small city's ocal PD already has an armored vehicle, wonder what they'll get next? Maybe an Abrams?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago

If Democrats had shut down the government, they couldn’t even pay the truck drivers for this.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 4 days ago (7 children)

This is probably gonna be unpopular, but as someone from the global south I can't help but feel just the tiniest bit of glee to see Gringos suffer a bit of what they have inflicted on our countries.

Anyways, get a gun.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago

If only they were pointing those guns at gringos, and not refugees

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago

It's a pretty valid sentiment.

Like when you see a kid fucking around with a rubber band and finally it snaps and it gives them a welt and they cry and cry and because you're a grownup you have to use it as a teachable moment and comfort them.

But in the back of your mind you can't help but think "heh, fuckin dumbass kid, I warned your dumb ass, fucking idiot, you totally deserved that."

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago

Nah I get it

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago

Time for EVERYBODY to start getting familiar with operating a firearm.

And start operating from the frame of mind that you're already dead if the cops get their foot in your door.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I called him a felon cheeto poopy head on Twitter though.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 days ago

america has no real laws and what laws do exist only exist to legitimize government tyranny

i hope every pig working for ice gets iced and i hope time works its magic on trump a little faster. i hope JD vance finds out he looks like that because he actually has some type of incurable cancer that’s slowly eating him alive

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I want him to shell the Congress but that's not going to happen, it's not like the Congress is doing anything against the Executive.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago

The entire American government is controlled opposition, it's all kayfabe. At best they'll go through the motions, make a speech about "this isn't us", and pass anything that the executive branch wants

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Posse comitatus, clear violation of constitution see you in court you orange fuckhole maybe-later-kiddo

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"You have no idea how bad you look right now" I tell my fascist captor as I'm lined up at the edge of a mass grave.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 days ago

Don't worry folks if you just vote in 3 years they'll give all this power back peacefully without any issues at all

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

2015 "I could shoot an innocent person on 5th Avenue and not lose a single voter."

. . .

2025 "I can deputize tens of thousands of masked thugs to shoot innocent people and not lose a single supporter."

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (6 children)

foucault's boomerang? my brother in christ, i'm going to upgrade you to foucault's trebuchet

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

I guess this means we’re waiting until the local cops have rocket launchers before we act?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Love to unleash my law enforcement like they're dogs who need to be unleashed so they can attack people.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Accurate description

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 days ago (1 children)

feels explicitly like counter-insurgency

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

astronaut-1

Book descriptionIn his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous analyses the development of pacification as a key concept through which capitalist modernity has been organised, offering readers the first book that treats pacification as an important concept in the history of state power and capitalism. Neocleous’s approach is fourfold, examining pacification as social warfare carried out through the ideology of peace; as a form of social police carried out through mechanisms of security; as law and order exercised through the permanent wars of class society; and as the myriad practices of power designed to counter insurgency.

Making use of official documents of state, the writings of counterinsurgency thinkers and the ideas perpetuated by practitioners of counterrevolution, the book unravels the complex ways through which pacification generates new forms of social war and new modes of policing that reproduce capitalist order and fabricate obedient subjects.

Through expansive accounts of war and police, and engaging with a range of topics from debt to death, from stasis to civil war, and from the police kettle to the politics of fear, the book offers a provocative analysis of the ways in which state and capital combine to build a pacified social order.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

At this point, i don’t need a work analyzing the situation. Give me the instructions to rig a shotgun to the door.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They're arresting people without warrants. They're deporting people without due process. The whole purpose of the law (allegedly) is to provide a recourse when the state violates your rights. If people cannot depend on due process, the only obvious alternative is force. This is what they are preparing for.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago

I need to get a CC permit. Soon.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would say 'called it' and link the comment, but I think it is pretty obvious this was going to happen.

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