2026-01-13 07:53 UTC
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@nullagent@partyon.xyz 2026-01-13 07:59
And when you start to do the math its pretty staggering. Minneapolis is currently afflicted by 3k (they're sending another 1k) rouge feds. They only have 600 cops. The populace is 400k Americans. Gun ownership is estimated at 45% of Minneapolis households. If even 1-5% of housholds decided to violently oppose ICE with force, they would outnumber ICE on day one. I can see why the vet above says ICE will loose if Americans stop being peaceful.
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net 2026-01-13 08:28
@nullagent@partyon.xyz Saying a lot of the same things myself in my essay coming out tomorrow. (Went up on Patreon late Sunday night. That was not a good draft tho', I really need to do better. But fuck these are hard to write.) (I think they're fool enough to _want_ that reaction, and I _do_ think they want martial law.)
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social 2026-01-13 08:43
@nullagent@partyon.xyz I remember reading an article by a British soldier in Afghanistan. What moved him to write was catching sight by chance of the face of a Taliban fighter. A day or two later he saw the same man, out shopping at a market with his wife and family. It was an epiphany - the soldier suddenly realised that he was trying to fight a war against the people themselves - and that it was unwinnable.
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@sheislaurence@mastodon.social 2026-01-13 13:19
@nullagent@partyon.xyz yeah except as you noted not a single country the US invaded was half as gunned up as the US is. Insurgency looks very different then, with a violence escalation counted in days, not years. Other than the assassination of top figures, the road to peace would involve the kind of introspection the US is the LEAST capable of in the world, especially when structures of change (education, media etc...) are owned by warmongers (tech bros, billionaires).
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@kctipton@mas.to 2026-01-13 14:16
@nullagent@partyon.xyz I was just thinking that the revelation of torture in 2002 made the populace and their supporters extremely hostile. This is that.
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@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science 2026-01-13 16:15
@nullagent@partyon.xyz It is unlikely that the #GravySeals in #ICE will ever confront a large group of #resistance. Most fear being simply being identified! What they ALL should fear is the coming #American #NurembergTrials of #Truth and #Justice.