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Keep a close eye. These motherfuckers are riding the edge of subversive/seditious acts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act
If any organization makes "civil war" an official position then they're fucked.
Not with a supreme court that's willing to say Unicorns exist for the sake of a legal argument. Law means nothing in this land for republicans right now.
Do you see Biden's AG charging them with treason?
They didn't capitalize on Jan 6th to purge everyone involved, just gave a few car dealership owners a slap on the wrist.
It should be noted that a large swath of that act has been overturned by the supreme court in the decades since the 40s.
It's where we get the distinction between "advocating for revolution" and "telling people to revolt, now".
One is protected because "violent revolution" in an abstract sense is a protected political policy position.
The law was originally used to target unionists and socialists who said we needed to tear the system down and rebuild it, by force if necessary.
What isn't protected is an imminent call to action or direct incitement to lawlessness.
Advocating for the ability to do something that violates the current law is the only way to advocate for changing a law.