They show up without badges, they’re getting a Glock.

Wa is a stand your ground state. They need to know that. It is a very liberal but heavily armed liberal state. Don’t fuck with wa. We wa liberals don’t fuck around.

Mindless thugs (a euphemism?) willing to beat the crap out of you to prove to you they are not... mindless thugs

They don't have badges, you know.

See, I wanna see them try this shit in a "Stand your ground" state.

From what I can tell 'stand your ground' only applies if the person being shot has the higher melanin couny. Get those ratios wrong and it's Murder

They were in the forest. Or they would never have been met well.

They did. A Houston man shot two ICE thugs dead at his home.

Those people agree with all this

Everybody would comply. Americans of today aren't the ones of 1776.

Yup, we've just spent the last 50 years being conditioned that non-violent resistance is the only option, even though it is completely ineffective in a real conflict

Ask the Ukrainians how that would have worked out. The new ICE guys are going to be real stromtrooper brutes, count on it.

They already are.

I'm pretty sure they would agree with me since they did not comply?

You are technically correct that the Americans of today are not the Americans of 1776.

Everyone in the "old" West has been conditioned that wars and civil wars are a thing of the past. In Europe, we have learned otherwise by the Ukraine attack. One million are dead, many more to come. In the US, you will learn from the takeover of blue districts by red states. Will you comply?

IDK California seems to be resisting, DC is resisting.... Europeans always seem to forget how BIG the USA is. DC is about 2,600 miles from my house. It's about a two days drive. Meanwhile the Equator is about 1,200 miles from my house. Do you see the problem?

DC is in the worst position for resisting. CA is in the best position. Of course, folks in CA can't do much about what happens on the other side. That's why I don't think you can save the union. Submit or secede, I say.

Where you from Peter?

Germany.

In which case, Id think youd be a lot more worried that Trump is following the playbook of that mustached guy from your country's past.

It's been said that Mein Kampf was on his nightstand. I tend to lend some credence to it. However, the crusade against anti-semitism doesn't fit, but then Stephen Miller is writing the real playbook. We are learning Jews can be fascist, too, and commit holocausts.

Surprised you guys were so chill with Ukraine taking out your energy pipeline, that didn’t seem like a fun winter after

I applaud the Ukrainians for having done that. It caused no problems in Winter. Climate change isn't the only reason to phase out fossils. 1) It is an issue of strategic independence 2) Necessary to bankrupt all the rogue regimes built on oil 3) Decentralized energy to blunt missile terrorism.

So much worse than thugs