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Time to buy a gun. The left needs to arm themselves fuckin' yesterday.
Don't think that they won't come for you. The law is powerless to protect you from having your rights trampled on under this administration. All it takes is for King Trump to declare you a gang member and they have carte blanche authority to disappear you off the street.
Was yesterday too late? I feel like one person having a gun hasn't been able to do anything meaningful with it for a long time. Except maybe defend themselves from a dumb home invader.
The point is there are only so many ICE goons out there. If every person they tried to disappear took one of the bastards with them, this would end pretty damn quick.
They're dressed in plain clothes. It wouldn't be hard to get another civilian to join in defending yourself. Especially when the target is a white woman.
Maybe. Maybe not. The bystander effect is real. And they have something to lose. If I'm being disappeared off to a death camp somewhere, I literally have nothing to lose.
I'm really torn on this. As a trans person, I'm a member of one of the groups most targeted by the regime. I've wanted nothing to do with firearms in the past, because frankly, I've dealt with a lot of depression at times in my life. Never enough to have any attempts, but enough to really give me pause about owning a weapon. The only weapons I want to own are fantasy props I make in my wood shop. I'm the exact opposite of a violent person. I am an educator; my greatest joy in life is when I can see my lessons spark the light of knowledge in others. Truthfully, I want nothing to do with firearms.
But this environment really makes me wonder. I would honestly rather die than be shipped off to be raped to death in some hellhole in El Salvadore. I would not survive long in a place like that.
I am very conflicted on this. Fuck this world. These are the kinds of choices no one should ever have to make. The world has gone mad.
I feel every part of this. I just wanted to be an artist and make video games for people to enjoy. Now I'm screaming in terror watching every facade of normalcy be torn apart like paper mache. My two cents is that we need to get armed and fast. We're beyond the point of "wanting" or "not wanting". I've been spending the last several months desensitizing myself to violence and coming to terms with the idea that I do not have a future. I was not a violent person but I know I need to be.
This is not a world of reason, stability, rationale, future. This is a world that is run by the enemy. This is the time we need to assume the worst because the cost of under-estimating is too high.