bad example imo. Bundy’s militia set up check points to demand anyone driving past proved they were a US citizen at gunpoint, and then went on to committ the 2014 Vegas Mass Shootihg, or were sent to jail for more than a decade. The leaders (Bundy and two sons) were arrested and put on trial several times and only escaped due to a jury deadlock and prosecutorial mishandling of documents.

They were also against the Bureau of Land Management, not the US Army or ICE, and their armed stand off caused those threatening the Land Mgmt agents to be arrested by the FBI and incarcerated.

The situation discussed (vs a hypothetical US ethnic cleansing) is not about a Land dispute with the land bureau over cattle grazing, and is also started before 9/11, two Bush and two Trump administrations and the expansion of powers to ICE and immigration

why do Lemmy users hate titles that aren’t paragraphs? did yall watch too many of those animes with three-sentence titles?

Consider Waco, TX. And that was 30 years ago before the massive leaps forward in drone, communications, satellite and digital technology.

Having guns does not protect you from the government. It may even barely protect you from an armed burglary. Guns are largely used for hunting deer shooting stationary paper indoors.

If you actually want to use guns to fight back against the government you needed to have built your fortified underground structure which is completely sound proof and infrared proof, and fully self sustaining for air, food, water and sewer filled with hundreds of people by now.

“fucking oak what the fuck” still works so not that different

ive actually used it at work for stuff like “when did Wendy approve the design? did she send it to brian?” when I have 5 different email threads over 3 different organizations, with 10 different respondees. But in personal use I would never.

my jerkmate is dead you monster

Also learning from other humans is part of the human experience and tradition predating agriculture and the wheel. We’ve always taught each other things.

=Let(), Lambda and Regex were good additions to Excel imo

I had a MacBook, while I was typing on it, suddenly just turn off, never to be turned on again. Took it to the store, they told me it was cheaper to buy a new one.

cops are trained to shout “he’s got a gun” after opening fire regardless because eyewitnesses won’t remember the order of events and back them up

we already got the mugwumps in office

Yeah, as an immigrant who doesn’t much like the idea of dying, I can’t ever see myself deciding to suicide by cop rather than be deported. Being deported would suck ass harder than most things I’ve experienced - I’d lose my house, my job, be separated from my partner - but still preferable to being gunned down and drowning in my own blood as it fills my lungs.

It’s a misdemeanor though in line with being drunk at Kroger or crossing through someone’s garden without permission.

I’m a legal immigrant (to the USA), there absolutely should be a legal path to emigrate to any and all countries.

The only difference between me and her is that I could afford not to work for the 7 months between landing in the country and my green card arriving in the mail, as well as the roughly $10k in fees, and I don’t have kids so being apart from my (then fiancee, now) wife for 14 months while the paperwork went through was also not such a big burden.

Having the privilege to endure those hardships does not constitute the entirety of being a good citizen.

it’s not like physically attacking a child will neccessarily guarantee an end to your problems anyway. Like with everything: it kinda just depends

I dont think we have, or rather, it is superceded by other rulings, probably since 9/11

there often is no path to legality, and she is the caregiver of her American-born children.

you’ve commented twice in this thread?

it’ll be like the scene in The Wire where they use a photocopier that prints “True” or “False” on a piece of paper

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