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      Armed EVERYONE, panthers, housewives, mechanics, trans teens, latino families, truckers, the entire Village People stereotypical grouping, should be there armed and handing out cookies and coffee and making sure our communities are safe and that everyone, no matter their politics or identity or race or background has their say at the polls.

      There are presently about 22,000 ICE agents. There will be somewhere around 100,000 polling stations in the US. Their math for “surrounding all polling stations” just isn’t working out.

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        They don’t need to surround every polling station. Just the ones in blue states

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          Time to plan to have 50 or 100 people at every polling station in every blue & red state. There should be enough retirees, unemployed, house-parents, teens to make it happen. 1 Million average Americans of every political affiliation to defend their democracy for a day.

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      Yup.

      Saw a video a week or two ago. Cops roll up. Group of Black Panthers are heavily armed on a public sidewalk. The cops tell them to leave. They say “no”. The cops leave.

      It’s a whole hell of a lot harder to oppress people who are heavily armed and in groups.

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        I rather see the Rainbow Coalition ride again, let’s take specific colors off the agenda.

        Surely the FBI won’t sabotage them again this time around.

        Surely.

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      Right. Show up and do the needful.

      I’ve seen armed “guards” and my polling station before and it’s unsettling to say the least.

      Say no words. Just vote.

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    I know that the Black Panthers have a history of protecting polls while armed, but perhaps it’s time we allow people of all colors to be armed and protecting the polls.

    There’s a lot more of us than there are of ICE.

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      Someone pointed out in another thread that schools and govt buildings where polling stations are already dont permit guns. But if ther are 50 of us there, the 10 of them they can muster will run like the cowards they are.

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        That’s the issue with the government’s monopoly on violence here. It’s okay if they bring their guns to terrorize people, but it’s not okay for ordinary people to protect others.

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    Trump wants ICE to THREATEN NON REPUBLICAN VOTERS WITH GUNS? Wow! They probably need a LOT of Funding for That! Let’s give it to Them!

    -Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries!

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    Simple.

    Everyone shows up to the polls heavily armed and stays until everyone has voted.

    Actually, not even everyone has to be armed. Just enough to form a group. Do not try this on your own. Totally safe if you’re in a group that’s packing though. They’re cowards. They’re only going to mess with people who can’t defend themselves.

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    I’m calling it: they’re going to have Palantir set them up with a database of likely Democrat voters paired with facial recognition and detain everyone who is a positive match on their way to the polls until the polling station closes.

    And then they’ll have the mail-in votes thrown out.

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    When a Republican tells you what they’re going to do, believe them. There will never be another fair election in the United States.

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    There are far more polling locations than ice agents. Even if they selectively pick the purple ones and deploy every agent they’re unlikely to end up with more than a couple agents at each.

    I guess that also means those agents either don’t get to vote or have to do early voting.

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        Sturm Abteilung (stormfront) precursor to the SS who were Hitlers thugs who beat people at the polls to get them to vote for Hitler.

        Hitler later stabbed them in the back during the night of the long knives.

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      Truly the most accurate comparison to ICE on paper. Schutzstaffel (SS) is the one everyone knows about and for practical reasons in the public eye, it’s a good analogy, but it’d be beneficial for people be aware of Sturmabteilung (SA), because the SS were far worse following the Nazi party’s truly solidifying grip on power. History really does rhyme.

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        Also the SA where mostly thugs, like ICE. Only thing Hitler did far better was to praise them and stand behind them. Bovino was basically sacrificed without any honor (nor was he deserving), but Hitler made national monuments to the goons who died and memorialized them in song.

        Until the night of the long knives, ofc, then he quite literally stabbed them in the back.