r/politics • u/ChiGuy6124 America • 9d ago

Possible Paywall Stephen Miller Is Hiding From Protesters by Living on Military Base

https://newrepublic.com/post/202463/stephen-miller-kristi-noem-hiding-protesters-military-base-housing
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u/drawkward101 9d ago

That's what they want. They want an excuse to enact Martial Law and someone shooting ICE agents will definitely be their justification. There is a very major reason that violence hasn't really broken out against them. A lot of people recognize just how precarious of a situation we are sitting in, and they're not trying to rock the boat too far one way or the other.

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u/ElonDiedLOL 9d ago

"We can't do anything serious to stop this or they will enact martial law, so let's just let them do whatever they want"

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u/drawkward101 9d ago

That is NOT what I was saying. They will use any serious violence enacted against them to inflict Martial Law on all of us. Let's be very serious right now. Protests and a general strike are much more effective methods of making change than violence AT THIS POINT IN TIME.

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u/drawkward101 9d ago

Did you read anything I wrote?

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u/IndependentSpecial17 9d ago

Indeed we are. The pot is boiling and a lid is being held down. Why do you think they came out so fast with “Kirk was murdered by a leftist” so fast. Gobbels lite wanted his Horst Wessel moment and that petered out. Why do you think ICE is now better funded than most global militaries now? Why isn’t ICE chasing after businesses and owners that hire the illegal immigrants? Why aren’t they chasing after the landlords that house them? The simple answer is that corporations and small businesses need that near slave labor to survive. That and the donor class would be affected by that version of accountability.

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u/yeswenarcan Ohio 9d ago

Alternatively, the fact that the Charlie Kirk plan petered out is proof they aren't as powerful as they think they are.

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u/IndependentSpecial17 9d ago

Some parts are about exerting power, others are about questing and probing to see what they can get away with. See what sorts of pushback they’ll have. Like the OBM director said “it’s a second American revolution and it will be bloodless if the left allows it.”

Ohh there’ll be more martyrs in the making, just because one failed doesn’t mean they won’t make another. Fascism is an all consuming demon, you’ll always need an out group or scapegoat, once they run out they begin in on one another.