You’re the only one talking about assassination.

This is the rare FA[FAFO]FO.

Violence is sometimes the answer.

You had me in the first part.

Don’t think of it as “putting a complete stop to it” vs “do nothing.”

Sabotage, malicious compliance, petty theft, these can all go towards slowing things down, making them take longer, cost more, demand more attention that could be put to different shit ideas.

So it was relevant.

What can you do to thwart it?

The 2nd Amendment, in practice, only exists for white straight Christians.

I own a firearm. I am not a white, straight Christian, but I could pass for one.

Irrelevant.

My son, who is trans, and who depends on his parents for support, would find it relevant.

If you pass, you’re by definition not going to experience anti-trans violence, which is the discussion at hand.

Fuck you.

Try writing more than a single flippant sentence, …

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Irrelevant. If you pass, you’re by definition not going to experience anti-trans violence, which is the discussion at hand.

My son would find it relevant. Fuck you.

I can pass.

Spirit passengers should expect a “restructuring fee” on their next ticket receipt.

He got the memo, but he ate it before anyone was able to read it to him.

Philadelphia.

“Refuse.” “Declare.” “Unconstitutional.”

Yeah, those “saying things” tactics have worked so well to ensure that criminal acts are swiftly and appropriately addressed in the face of the new paradigm of “do whatever I want and dare anyone to stop me.”

Do you think the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police would allow military action to take place in their jurisdiction?

What are they going to do to stop it?

It’s not an on/off switch. Of course the military will be less efficient and more error-prone; that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be able to do anything.

Need to put down a big protest in St Louis? Send in troops with live rounds, none of that less lethal bullshit. Maybe it takes a couple days longer to get them there, maybe there aren’t quite as many boots on the ground as you wanted, maybe they get deployed in kind of dumb ways.

They’re still far better armed, far more cohesive, and far more replenishable than the protesters they seek to trample. The military would still win, they don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be better enough than their opponent.

Now imagine if the opponent isn’t “protesters,” but “these brown people we’ve conditioned you to feel animosity towards, and they’re iLlEgAlS!” Those brown people aren’t even loosely organized into a protest, and as long as the troops aren’t popping “my” people (yet), the public pushback is going to be weak as fuck.

“Donald, it has to at least look like we gave you some oversight.”

They don’t necessarily need to be competent. They only need to be loyally fascist and willing to deliver criminal orders. Firepower “trumps” competency in a whole lot of short-term scenarios. Beyond that, they only need a sufficient number of servicepeople to execute those orders. Even if most servicepeople refuse to obey, the US military is such a massive organization that there will be more than enough who do.

A best case scenario is one where one part of the US military stands up with force against the other part, and the fascists lose, followed by a military coup.

Doesn’t matter. A fascist at the head of government, whose party is in line behind him, controlling all branches of the federal government, having enough military support, can shush as many opinions as he wants.

He’s already demonstrated over and over that he will do whatever he wants, and dare anyone to stop him. To date, not only has nobody stopped him, or applied a single real consequence, the electorate has seen fit to increase his power.

Republicans used to be strongly opposed to Russia, too, how’s that working out?

If it gets that far, then we know what to do. Take pictures, document, build national level outrage.

Defend yourself and your fellow human beings.