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NickC25yesterday at 4:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

>Just a few years ago, their own supporters were smugly saying that standing up to the government is a fantasy for paranoid whackjobs.

One dude in his home with a gun or two versus a 50 billion dollar ICE force that has complete immunity and a massive media and political empire ready to spin any bad incident into an us-versus-them narrative.....

Yeah, it is a fantasy. Oh, and if anything really gets out of hand, that political empire also has nuclear weapons.


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Ancapistaniyesterday at 6:26 PM

Are you familiar with Chris Dorner?

beefletyesterday at 4:46 PM

>One dude in his home with a gun or two versus a 50 billion dollar ICE force that has complete immunity and a massive media and political empire ready to spin any bad incident into an us-versus-them narrative.....

How does legal immunity or a media empire affect a dead man?

>Oh, and if anything really gets out of hand, that political empire also has nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons are not very useful in a civil conflict... Or pretty much any conflict

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dabluecabooseyesterday at 4:18 PM

Thew whiplash from "Why isn't anyone fighting ICE???" to "the government will nuke us if we fight back" is frankly stunning

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