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Where are your militias against government Tyranny? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Jarix@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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American Militia Members. Where the hell are you? THIS is what you exist for and you are doing NOTHING!

Edit: I've only heard "defense against tyranny" as justification for these militias by these militia

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[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm simply using the terms as that are used. My understanding of the word is more or less the same as this:

militia, military organization of citizens with limited military training, which is available for emergency service, usually for local defense

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 1 points 4 days ago

In the US we call that the National Guard. The state governor controls them. In no way are they for this sort of situation though.

I don't care what the dictionary says. I'm telling you what every American means when they say "militia": crazy fringe conspiracy theorists who spend a lot of time discussing "the Jew problem".

[–] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I think I see the issue. There is no real official militia. Those who call themselves militias here are white power, neo nazi, or the like. They are very much in favor of everything going on right now because it affects "those people" the most.

Then we have those who are armed individuals. Statistically, last I looked, the majority of firearms are owned by right leaning individuals.

There are those of us that are pissed off about everything, or left leaning, but we have no real means to get together and coordinate any type of uprising. Dig through my comments and you'll get a good rundown of why.

The best we can hope, those of us that are against all this shit, is arm and defend our own as best we can. That is really more for crazed right side folks who see some reason to start being stupid. Which has happened here and there already, or attempted to. We're not talking door to door, but groups that have planned raids on peaceful protests, or have shown up in hopes of provoking a peaceful protest into a riot of some sort.