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Considering the channel owner is heavily left leaning, I don't think it was them but they may be getting extra cautious about what speech they allow, given the current regime.

I made some comments on YouTube over the last week about LAPD and Israel, and all of them have been deleted without notice. Not even a warning of "hey you aren't allowed to talk about that" or "you violated a mysterious rule sometime"

Lemmy can succeed while breaking arbitrary ~~server~~ CoMmUnItY rules, and if you don't think this discussion has merit then you only want Lemmy to succeed in your narrow view of what "success" is, I guess.

Newsome has the authority to have state police and the CBI to arrest guard members who don't follow the order to stand down.

He won't, and I don't know if I believe the state police would side with a Democrat, but the possibility is there.

Of course, there are MANY things that politicians have had the authority to do to stop things since January, yet they haven't.

All radicals who are willing to spill blood are on Trump’s side.

I'm not so sure on this one.

I'd like to think I'm willing to use the tools at my fingertips to sling hot lead in defense of minorities and prevent a total takeover, however, I recognize that doing so myself is a death sentence.

Taking a stand just makes you a target in a very wide open field. You need more people to take a stand with you to be effective. How many people feel the same as I do? Willing to stand as a group, but not solo?

Organization is important. Organize or be sent to a ~~concentration camp~~ "prison". Organize or be arrested for protesting the regime. Organize or die.

Organized resistance is much harder to take down. With enough people, you wouldn't even need to fight. But you should absolutely be prepared to.

then that kind of autonomy is a fictional concept that is out of reach for any modern nation.

True autonomy and isolation IS impossible for modern countries. There isn't a single country that has access to every single resource needed for modern society, some things will always have to be imported.

A 1700s era society, however, is totally within the realm of possibility. Not much use for neodynium or lithium in the 18th century.

wtf are even 20 armed civilians supposed to do against trained military combat units?

Ask Vietnam.

Yeah I love how other countries like to mock the US for Vietnam, yet for some reason seem to forget about it when it comes to "us military would dominate their population"

I'm sorry but some random Douchebag from Omaha or some small town in Texas doesn't know jack OR shit about the countryside around the Sierra or Appalachian mountains, and all the fancy tools at their disposal didn't help them much when they had to search through desert for 20 years chasing down "terrorists"

Sure, the US couldn't beat vietman because they didn't know the terrain and would never be able to convince the people they're shooting at its for their own good.

But that totally doesn't apply when it's the US fighting against itself, somehow.

The enemy is both weak and strong, I guess.

Inrangetv

It's weird that a guntuber is where I saw this posted first... Granted he's very clearly left if you watch some of his videos.

And he just posted a data security video the other day about how DOGE and Palantir are working together.

then why is it so popular there

Because like many countries whose inhabitants come from a variety of places, you've got lots of people interested in their "heritage"

Since most people in the US can't say their family has been here longer than a couple hundred years, and depending on the area no more than 100 or so, a lot of people wish to know "where they came from" so to speak. DNA testing is just easier than tracing a family tree.

I happen to be lucky enough to have a family member obsessed with genealogy, who traced down the last 1,000 or so years depending on which parts of the family and what areas they're from, so I don't need genetic testing to know 99% of my family is white as fuck with a couple POC from different continents and a native back in the 1700s. I don't feel any particular draw to any culture, nor do I feel like donning traditional garb or participating in holidays, ceremonies, rituals, or customs. Some people do.

I totally get it if it's not your thing, especially since that kind of mentality of "ooh let's find out where our families came from" isn't present in most other places in the world, and definitely not to the same degree even in other colonial areas. Personally I think it's part of that whole "melting pot" ideology, but I'm just some rando on the internet.

Honestly even without my relative tracing the family tree, I would never have paid to give my DNA to a company for results with questionable accuracy. Shits weird, yo.

I mean, that thing is working so hard it turned the entire surrounding countryside into desert!