• discontinuuity [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Plenty of out of touch libs in the replies telling them to call the cops and saying that guns are icky

    • pooh [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      In that area, I'd suspect a lot of the chuds are prison guards, as Fremont County is just north of there.

      From Wikipedia:

      Rural Fremont County is the location of 15 prisons; most of these are operated by the state. ADX Florence, the only federal Supermax prison in the United States, is in an unincorporated area in Fremont County, south of Florence, and is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Florence. As of March 2015, Fremont County leads the nation among all counties as the one with the largest proportion of persons incarcerated. Prisoners are counted as part of the county population in the census, and 20% of residents are held in the prisons in the county.

  • BillyMays [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Everything is fucked up about this. The fact this brutalized community needs to live on a ranch to feel safe. Even after they move away from people they’re lives continue to be threatened.

    I’m really happy they have this ranch, but it’s a reminder that we can’t just go live somewhere and start our own communism commune. They will find us and they will try and kill us. Defeating fascism and bigotry is brutal.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Why can't people let them live in peace :deeper-sadness:

    I wonder if anybody here lives near them can safely offer them help or something?

  • ogey [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe a pre-emptive strike against the chuds is needed. Like hacking into their Minecraft servers and burning down their Minecraft houses

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      The local material conditions appear to demand increasing militarization. It's almost like if you're encircled by people hell bent on your destruction you might need to increase the number of guns you have.

  • Hoodoo [love/loves]
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    4 years ago

    If you think this is a grift, either post some damn evidence or shut the hell up. They've literally called in the SRA to provide protection - fortunately some leftists actually give a fuck and aren't just contrarians out for the fun of it.

        • Anna_KOC [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          People can decide to do that all by themselves though so what does the leadership do, besides threatening etsy sellers with lawsuits?

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            It's just SRA is easy to reach, the leadership may mention it to members, but legally can't say "were going here" because the FBI would kill us.

            • Anna_KOC [comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              The FBI is already killing people all the time, and there's no law about not going anywhere either.

              • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I just mean SRA would be absolutely destroyed if they openly organized this sort of stuff. Reaching out to SRA will get you people, but for legal reasons whoever shows up is there as an individual and not the SRA. Mainly because SRA is technically a gun club and not a militia.

                • Anna_KOC [comrade/them]
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                  4 years ago

                  Defeatist nonsense, they don't need a reason to destroy them anyways so there's no point in compromising.

    • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It's similar to Oregon in some ways. Trendy upper urban areas with lots of libs and some lefty folks. Rural areas are lots of ranching, oil and gas, etc.

      • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, it's extremely similar to Washington and Oregon. Most of the population is on the Front Range corridor, stretching from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. It's about as Ameri-progressive as it gets. But once you leave that urban area, you're in chud nation.

        • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Honestly it's generally applicable to almost every western state. Central valley CA is very right wing. Rural northern CA too.

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Got any links on that? We really shouldn't be throwing stuff like this around unless there's something to substantiate it.

    • Hoodoo [love/loves]
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      4 years ago

      Vague accusations with no links or recipts.

      Suspicious to say the least. Do you want trans people to die? Because if you are wrong you have just contributed to killing trans people.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Fair criticism and not at all being an asshole. I just saw this come up on my feed right before I passed out and thought more along the lines of if any armed comrades are in the area it might be worth looking out for.

    • Hoodoo [love/loves]
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      4 years ago

      Damn, I'm sure this group of trans people under threat are glad that Chapo chat is here to debate whether or not they are grifting.

      Sure, we might end up saving some lives, but what if some trans folks get money they don't explicitly need? Think of the potential downsides!!!111!!!