End of the American Republic?

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,277
    brianlux said:
    May be an image of map and text that says CANADA UNITED UNITEDSTATES STATES
    What the hell.  Why not! 

    No problem let’s do this 

    OnWis97 said:
    As a Minnesota resident, count me in.

    benjs said:
    OnWis97 said:
    As a Minnesota resident, count me in.
    As a Canadian resident, we'd love to have you :) 

    Yes, yes, yes!
    :plus_one:
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  • OnWis97OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,512
    benjs said:
    OnWis97 said:
    As a Minnesota resident, count me in.
    As a Canadian resident, we'd love to have you :) 
    You'd get and NFL team!

    (Full disclosure, though, it's the Vikings)
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  • cutzcutz Posts: 12,140
    brianlux said:
    May be an image of map and text that says CANADA UNITED UNITEDSTATES STATES
    What the hell.  Why not! 

    I would be right on the Border but in Canada. Would we be able to build a Wall?=LOL
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,277
    cutz said:
    brianlux said:
    May be an image of map and text that says CANADA UNITED UNITEDSTATES STATES
    What the hell.  Why not! 

    I would be right on the Border but in Canada. Would we be able to build a Wall?=LOL

    What the heck.  Sure!
    US installs fence along Canadian border to deter smuggling

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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,435
    edited June 6
    I think Canada would probably be happy to welcome those states as new provinces... of course, our leaders lack the nerve to start babbling about our 11th, 12th, 13th, etc provinces on social media, lol. 
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,241
    edited June 6
    I'd change "lack the nerve" to "have the sense not to" in that statement. 
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,241
    but fuck yeah. heading to Minnie would be so much cheaper!
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,277
    The question is, is it the end of the American Republic, or the beginning of a long-term, low brow, stupid fucking sickcom/ unreality TV show starring Whiny Old Billionaire and His Ex-tacy.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,435
    I'd change "lack the nerve" to "have the sense not to" in that statement. 

    I meant that fully tongue in cheek!
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,435
    Diesn't matter how you feel about Musk. This threat is 100% fascist. 

    Trump says Elon Musk could face ‘serious consequences’ if he backs Democratic candidates

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trump-says-elon-musk-could-face-serious-consequences-if-he-backs-democratic-candidates/

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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,435
    Speaks for itself

    Trump deploys National Guard to Los Angeles amid immigration protests | CNN Politics

    https://www.cnn.com/webview/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-news-06-07-25?iid=cnn-mobile-app

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  • gotthebottlegotthebottle San Diego Posts: 3,596
    It's started... the battle fuckhead wants... here in SoCal. People being hurt
    #BoycottFIFA

  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,277
    The fuck?

    Trump authorizes 2,000 national guard troops to deploy to LA amid Ice protests

    California governor calls move ‘purposefully inflammatory’ and says it will ‘escalate tensions’ amid immigration crackdown

    :angry:




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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 41,187
    edited June 8
    And we were told that it couldn’t happen here. COOTWH has disbanded the FBI unit focused on domestic terrorist groups, particularly far-right ones, the NSA is turning a blind eye and Herr Miller’s shock troops are being groomed and encouraged. This will not end well and it’ll make the fiery peaceful protests of the George Floyd murder riots look tame in comparison.

    You’ve, general you, been warned repeatedly and so far only seem concerned that Brandon and his shadow government deceived you and that you didn’t have a choice in November. You did and you, general you, chose foolishly. Well, you, general you, who voted for COOTWH or didn’t vote at all, own it. The chickens are starting to come home to roost.

    Someone get Kyle Rittenhouse a ticket to LA, eh?

    Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event

    The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right

    An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI, which once dismantled it in a nationwide effort.

    The Base, founded in 2018 by a former Pentagon contractor living in Russia and now suspected of Kremlin-sponsored espionage, once boasted close to 50 stateside members before the bureau made more than a dozen arrests in a years-long counter-terrorism operation.

    But since the presidential election campaign last year and what many then believed to be a surefire victory for Donald Trump, the Base saw an opportunity in a potential administration uninterested in policing white supremacy and went about ramping up its ranks.

    Now, the Base has a presence in Ukraine, performing sabotage operations inside the country against the embattled government, and new and dangerous cells emerging across Europe, and it appears to be growing in the US, where the FBI under the Maga acolyte Kash Patel has signalled it isn’t prioritizing investigations of far-right extremism.

    In its early history, part of what first piqued the interest of authorities was the Base’s courting of military veterans who could help drill its foot soldiers in a series of training camps across the US. Eventually implicated in an assassination plot, mass shootings and other actions in Europe, the Base went so far as to have a fortified compound and cell in Michigan, led by a US army dropout.

    Online evidence from its various accounts, several of which live on Russian servers to avoid censorship on American sites, shows the Base has real plans for a national gathering this summer where members intend to train in paramilitary drills as in years past.

    “The Base in [the] USA is preparing for an upcoming national training event,” reads one of its recent posts soliciting crypto donations. “This one might be our most attended training event in [the] USA in a while. We could really use some financial support to help our members with travel expenses.”

    The post continued: “When you donate money to the Base, you’re investing in a White Defense Force that’s aiming to protect white people from political persecution and physical destruction.”

    The Base then published a new photo of armed members claiming to be in the midwest, which follows a trend in 2025 of the group bragging about its unafraid American presence. As a sort of taunt to its enemies, on the day of Trump’s inauguration the Base released a photo of four members somewhere in Appalachia, in what was the largest number of American members in one photo in over a year.

    The upcoming national training event indicates that the group is seeking to grow and is willing to take the risk of advertising it publicly in advance,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst of far-right terrorism who has been following the Base’s movements for close to a decade. “The Base appears to be actively seeking to grow in the US.”

    Fisher-Birch notes that even if the gathering involves “fewer than 20 people”, it is by no means “low profile” and suggests the group sees momentum is on its side.

    “An event entails planning, coordination, travel and face-to-face meetings between different regional groups, indicating that they operate in an environment where they view the potential amount of risk as acceptable,” he said. “The group has previously stated multiple times that being a member or training with them is a risky endeavor; however, planning a meetup, which they will inevitably use for propaganda purposes, is a different approach than even a year ago, when the group advertised regional activities.”

    In response to queries about the Base’s latest movements, the FBI told the Guardian that it only investigates people who have or are planning to commit a federal crime and pose “a threat to national security”.

    “Our focus is not on membership in particular groups but on criminal activity,” said a spokesperson for the FBI. “Membership in groups is not illegal in and of itself and is protected by the first amendment.”

    But in Michigan and in Georgia, members of the Base were charged with their criminal associations to the group.

    The Trump administration’s security posture on the far right is to downplay its significance. Yet experts unanimously agree: it is the top domestic terrorism threat facing the country. Instead, Patel, the FBI’s director, has gone about removing agents from pursuing the far right, while one of Trump’s first actions in his second term was to provide unconditional pardons, en masse, to all of the January 6 insurrectionists.

    Fisher-Birch also pointed out that the Base had taken itself more seriously and upped its activities in Ukraine to the tune of calling for the murder of government officials and acts of sabotage – with the clearly stated goal of forming a white ethnostate in the west of the country. Already, the Ukrainian cell has uploaded geolocated videos of some of these attacks, one showing the burning of a military vehicle and what looks like a government electrical box.

    In a video released on a Russian video-sharing site in mid-May, Rinaldo Nazzaro, the founder and leader of the Base, who is living in St Petersburg, released a video describing the importance of new training videos proving to potential recruits that his group is not just online, but in the real world.

    “It’s propaganda through actions, not just words,” he said.

    It isn’t clear where the paramilitary training will take place, but Nazzaro is known to have purchased land in the Pacific north-west that he intended to use as a headquarters for the Base and its activities.


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  • gotthebottlegotthebottle San Diego Posts: 3,596
    It was all in Project 2025.
    Now the mouthpieces of the MAGA wing are explaining it away ... saying people waving foreign flags are attacking police.... bullshit
  • tbergstbergs Posts: 10,327
    It was all in Project 2025.
    Now the mouthpieces of the MAGA wing are explaining it away ... saying people waving foreign flags are attacking police.... bullshit
    Because we all know you have to be holding an American flag while attacking police for it to be love and not violence.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • DE4173DE4173 Posts: 2,617
    It was all in Project 2025.
    Now the mouthpieces of the MAGA wing are explaining it away ... saying people waving foreign flags are attacking police.... bullshit
    I mean

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  • OnWis97OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,512
    tbergs said:
    It was all in Project 2025.
    Now the mouthpieces of the MAGA wing are explaining it away ... saying people waving foreign flags are attacking police.... bullshit
    Because we all know you have to be holding an American flag while attacking police for it to be love and not violence.
    And it's super-love when you attack them with the flag.
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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 41,187
    DE4173 said:
    It was all in Project 2025.
    Now the mouthpieces of the MAGA wing are explaining it away ... saying people waving foreign flags are attacking police.... bullshit
    I mean

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