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Codifer

(1,117 posts)
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 08:24 PM Sep 17

If we lose the First Amendment

We must rely on the second?

but how?

I am so sorry to bring it up.

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Silent Type

(11,727 posts)
1. Thought we don't post that kind of crud here. I'm sure I've seen several of these in past month.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 08:30 PM
Sep 17

Timeflyer

(3,508 posts)
4. No. Please don't suggest using firearms or violence, even hypothetically.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 08:45 PM
Sep 17

They want us to resort to violence--don't give them an excuse to demonize us further. Resistance, yes. Don't give up. The odds may seem hopeless at times, but they can't silence all our voices. Speak up, speak out, in every way possible.

Codifer

(1,117 posts)
5. Listen!
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:36 PM
Sep 17

I was NOT suggesting that we storm the Capitol with pitchforks and nooses. That looked stupid when they did it.

Who among us thinks that the powers behind this fucking clown show will see the error of their ways and stop the attacks on the left? Certainly not me.

Does anyone think that the end result will be a confrontation at your fucking front door. (as if that never happened before).

Any one who wishes to can offer the evil maga motherfuckes a beer or a cup of tea and a chat.

Rest assured that I will have other plans.

Timeflyer

(3,508 posts)
10. Sorry, I didn't mean to sound preachy or "let's all hold hands and talk it out." Now is the time to resist and
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:05 AM
Sep 18

raise hell. Just first do everything we can, everyday, to push back, be loud, make good trouble, but stay safe to stay in the fight. There is no easy way back from the authoritarian climate we're fighting.

Mysterian

(6,050 posts)
6. If we lose the First Amendment, we've lost the entire constitution
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:38 PM
Sep 17

If the regime can trample out one of our rights, nothing will stop them from trampling them all.

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,110 posts)
7. The Second will go as soon as it becomes a threat to the fascists.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:45 PM
Sep 17

Until then they're happy to watch folks kill each other, all the while talking about how "horrible" it is.

But our "leaders" have all agreed to support the Second Amendment, for the time being. All two parties. I know this because it's never been repealed. BTW, have you heard the outpouring of sentiment for repeal, since Kirk got lead poisoning? Me neither. Crickets.

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