This is lawlessness. No procedure, no rules, no guidelines, no restraint, no empathy, no accountability. Their violence will only escalate. America, you need to start standing up to this administration. No more sitting on the sidelines of politics. The footsteps are heading your way now.
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Arrested for, and while doing, nothing illegal.
Just remember, if one person has no rights, we all have no rights.
First they came for the woodwinds, and I said nothing because I play violin.
Edit: It’s a silly joke, but I do think instruments in an orchestra is a good metaphor for the importance of diversity to society.
The USA got some very special freedom, but at least their guns will protect them from overreaching state actors.
While it is of course frightening as fuck i really laugh that the U.S. shows what everybody knows. All these weapons are for show and a false sense of security. And of course daily shootings. Fighting oppression? Never.
There's a cost-benefit calculation to be done. If you're the only armed dissident, it's basically suicide by cop. There's a critical mass necessary to mount an offensive.
Also, a good chunk of the 2A zealots are cool with what's happening. They don't feel oppressed.
The ones being oppressed are the ones who generally didn't like the weapons. I know, I was one of them.
I kind of understand that it feels bad to own weapons when you oppose them. I doubt fascism will lay down peacefully but i wish you guys luck.
Thanks. To be fair, aside from the pacifism if you look at my other interests and hobbies I should be a gun guy, so it's been a begrudgingly pleasant transition.
I believe many leftists will use the time it is still possible to get a gun. I know i would even though i hate that shit. As german i don't really have that option, so i really don't look forward to our own Gestapo being errected in 4 years from now (neo-nazis are about to take power).
Sport shooting looks like it could be a valid workaround, plus actually sport shooting is great training. Things are bad here but I can't say I envy Germany right now.
Fight the AfD my internet person! I'm fighting the PVV here. We can still win.
Everyone here is joking about this, but it's not funny at all.
My understanding is that humor is a very common coping mechanism — in the face of an abuse of power this absurd, I imagine it’s sometimes all someone has the strength for.
Nah, I don't think that's quite right, it's not like anybody's ignoring how thoroughly evil these fuckers are, we can just also appreciate that they're little bitch idiots to a comical degree who get intimidated by fuckin band kids
Like, to put it another way, US troops in world war 2 constantly made fun of Nazis while also shooting at them and such. They're not mutually exclusive trains of thought, if anything they reinforce each other.
Arresting musicians is very Taliban
She was probably playing it menacingly /s
They probably felt threatened. Those poor little souls. Attacked with a tactical assault instrument.
Something strange in the neighborhood...
First they take the clarinetist. Then when they run out of those, it's the brass instrumentalists.
And I said nothing because I played the timpani. By the time they made it all the way back to me there was no-one left to help me anymore.
Clarinets have reeds and they can be sharp enough to cut someone up in a heated frenzy. Be careful out there ICE! /s
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