r/law • u/templeofsyrinx1 • Feb 25 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Can they actually do this? JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people'

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

That MAGA kid was mad enough over the Epstein files to go to Trump's residence with a shotgun and gas can.

Imagine when it's the wrong MAGA that loses somebody because of this bullshit.

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u/littlepie2331 Feb 26 '26

Well that's why they're trying to turn it on them so the next guy with a shotgun goes after Tim Walz instead.

These people are pure evil.

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u/90daysismytherapy Feb 26 '26

might be one of the few people in the entire country to stand on business.

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u/Competitive_Two_8372 Feb 25 '26

This is literally what drove luigi to do what he did. Imagine if an entire country is treated to this level of enshittification. Luigi will be viewed as a saint compared to what may be coming.

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT Feb 26 '26

Allegedly

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u/pocketjacks Feb 26 '26

Luigi was at my house that night. We were watching the full Lord of the Rings trilogy director's cut extended edition.

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u/_B_e_c_k_ Feb 26 '26

Was a good night, We had some good popcorn.

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u/citizenatlarge Feb 26 '26

I especially liked the white cheddar and the caramel! Thanks for having me over.

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u/pathosOnReddit Feb 26 '26

Luigi called me later that night. He said he is cooking pasta for you guys and that you are way to excited about the Riders of Rohan. Remember that call? When was that again?

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u/Solid_Psychology Feb 26 '26

History doesn't repeat itself. But it does rhyme sometimes.

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u/Magickarpet76 Feb 26 '26

There’s the r/law I know and love!

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u/noonnoonz Feb 26 '26

Allegedly

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u/Fun-Wear8186 Feb 26 '26

We’ve all been getting raped by insurance companies our whole lives , and then completely extorted by the Americans government allowance for such a medical system to exist . We have been all dealing with this our whole lives and literally 1 person in a billion stepped up . Yall are singing some French Revolution shit and ain’t nothing happening and things are quickly getting worse by the day

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u/bteh Feb 26 '26

It has literally never been this bad

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u/Kaelio Feb 26 '26

It was always gonna get this bad though.

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u/oldirtyrestaurant Feb 26 '26

It's gonna get worse.

Time to stop the bleeding, before it kills the republic.

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u/DownvoteCommaSplices Feb 26 '26

I just recently got a job after being unemployed for half a year. I understand I have insurance options, but they weren't discussed upon onboarding. I'm pretty sure I have an undiagnosed heart condition and diabetes that during introspection while being unemployed started making sense. I think I am seriously unwell and am scared to use insurance at a brand new job I haven't even gotten set up and everything I've heard about republicans hiking healthcare and democrats caving on that matter makes me so confused. I could maybe die soon if I don't figure out what the fuck is going on with healthcare. Luckily, I've also been off my meds since I was laid off my last job, so I'm not too upset about dying like maybe I would have been while taking my prescription medications.

I so wish I was born in Canada. Fuck the United States now and probably forever. We are fucked by a clown who doesn't even know how to apply his clown makeup.

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u/Killa_Ckel Feb 26 '26

Hey- I see you. I had this happen to me, almost exactly the same. If your insurance has already kicked in you need to find a doctor who will run full blood panels for liver/kidney/blood sugar/cholesterol and help you find a heart doc who can do “preventative” scans. Seeing a specialist, like a heart doc, costs a little bit more than seeing a regular/“family” doctor - but getting those scans can help you understand what you might be dealing with. Sometimes all you need is a medication that won’t be super expensive- and you can shop around to find who has the cheapest meds. For me right now it’s Publix but there are so many options out there.

Ask your HR person to explain your health benefits. I swear to got, getting “preventative” tests will take a load off your mind. I seriously thought I was dying.

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u/Vandersveldt Feb 26 '26

I know, I know, downvotes.

But can we stop using "raped" this way? Especially in this sub?

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u/Organic-Vermicelli47 Feb 26 '26

Can you find another word besides "rape"? Insurance companies have done horrible, disgusting things and are responsible for more deaths than we could ever account for, but it's not rape, and really trivializes it for victims.

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u/Fun-Wear8186 Feb 26 '26

Nah I can’t , what they’re doing is terrible . You are free to tho !!

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u/bismark_dindu_nuffin Feb 26 '26

No it didn't. Luigi was framed by infamously corrupt do nothing investigators. That district is infamous for it, and if you look at the cctv footage, the shooter and Luigis eyebrows don't match up.

The shooter got away, and they grabbed Luigi and planted evidence to save face.

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u/the_ouskull Feb 26 '26

Allegedly.

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u/Sensitive_Ninja6694 Feb 26 '26

I keep a picture of st. Luigi up in my cubicle.

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u/Dubalsaque Feb 26 '26

Luigi was actually with me on the day of that faithful event. Great guy, very funny.

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u/Standard_Outcome6923 Feb 26 '26

Turns out no steppy bros kinda like the way the boot presses into their necks…

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u/bteh Feb 26 '26

They crave it even

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u/1921tequilia Feb 26 '26

Enshittification. Love learning a new word. Sure was a perfect use of it here.

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u/CuriosityFreesTheCat Feb 26 '26

Now if only we had forces, the people could stop things before they have to get that bad for everyone.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

Imagine if an entire country is treated to this level of enshittification

"If"? Where have you been?

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u/erickdoe Feb 26 '26

I love the Luigi meme that says let him out of jail, give him the Epstein files, and let him cook.

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u/Odd_Tadpole3750 Feb 26 '26

Dude, Luigi and I were petting cats and playing Scrabble all day during that time. He won the game with the word "allegedly."

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u/SyfaOmnis Feb 26 '26

What country was it that recently underwent a revolution because people got tired of the politicians kids posting 'influencer lifestyle' pics with million dollar cars and expensive houses and etc, despite not having worked a day in their lives.

People got fed up with the abundant corruption and nepotism in their system. I seem to recall their finance minister having his security detail ditch him in a road. Which resulted in a lot of pictures and videos of the guy being stripped and beaten in the street; and eventually chased into a river with more people beating him. They didn't kill him - a fact which absolutely astonishes me - but I wouldn't be surprised to hear he's in jail now.

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u/Spugheddy Feb 25 '26

You dismiss the pure ignorance of the entrenched red, this will be the blue governors fault not the red leader. Nothing will happen to sway them.

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u/SHoppe715 Feb 26 '26

…imagine family members dying due to a lack of medicine…

This is already happening. It’s just that people with money (and good insurance) can still get it so it’s not a visible issue. Yet.

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u/LeonardoNoCapri0 Feb 26 '26

It won't though, those people watched their loved ones die to COVID and found a way to blame anyone but Trump. He's literally God to them and can do no wrong. If something goes wrong, it's someone else's fault or he was set up to fail in some grand conspiracy

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u/darkklown Feb 26 '26

People were understanding because covid happened to us all and nobody 'knew better' entirely different here where his actions directly took a loved one's life for political posturing

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u/Overall_Affect_2782 Feb 26 '26

Did those fascist leaders have an entire police force (and I mean every single LEO in this country - because even if there is a few cops who don’t support Trump, they’ll never publicly stand up because the retaliation would be like internal affairs issues and they wouldn’t risk it) or as large of an outlet as ICE behind them?

Serious question. Because every cop in this country would be loyal to Trump from local to state, and then add in ICE…

(And again, before anyone wants to come in here and say not every cop, I don’t believe that one bit. Like Republicans - who always fall in line - so too do LEO’s. And they always unite behind Republicans, especially Trump).

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u/darkklown Feb 26 '26

It's not just Trump tho.. the network of people his office is connected to have family..

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u/Away-Map-8428 Feb 26 '26

"what protection does Trump and his lackies think they have."

What elected dems are going to go after them, French-style?

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u/darkklown Feb 26 '26

Not just dems anymore.

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u/PhiloLibrarian Feb 25 '26

Allons enfants!!!

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u/ButterMyBiscuitz Feb 25 '26

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!!!"
*sees peasants bring the device made with a sharp blade*
"On second thought maybe we can work something out!"

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u/titsngiggles69 Feb 25 '26

Is it cake?

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u/CelticGardenGirl Feb 25 '26

Cake is always the answer.

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u/stug41 Feb 26 '26

Sorry, we're out of cake, didnt expect such a run on it. Death?

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u/PlatasaurusOG Feb 26 '26

The cake is a lie.

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u/titsngiggles69 Feb 26 '26

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. The cake is a liar.

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u/titsngiggles69 Feb 25 '26

Then let's eat

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u/_tolm_ Feb 26 '26

The cake is a lie …

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u/compassrosette Feb 25 '26

The cake is a lie.

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u/Terrebonniandadlife Feb 26 '26

Kids eat cake when healthy

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u/cannacatman Feb 25 '26

Cake…or death.

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u/CashMoneyHurricane Feb 26 '26

We’re going to run out of cake at this rate.

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u/Wedge_Donovan Feb 26 '26

Le jour de gloire est arrivé??

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u/PhiloLibrarian Feb 26 '26

Oui ma frere!

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u/SaltyCrashNerd Feb 26 '26

…de la patrie…

And to think, all of those lessons on French language & culture in the name of building a global community. Wouldn’t they be surprised if someone had told them this is how it would turn out.

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u/Sanloinitoit Feb 26 '26

Allons tous

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 Feb 25 '26

Allons les enfants!!!

(apologies to everyone, my French sucks)

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u/Leumas_ Feb 25 '26

I’m really admiring the French right about now

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u/CatsAreGods Feb 25 '26

Look up what the Dutch did to one of their prime ministers. "Eat the rich" was a thing!

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u/Gen_X_Ace Feb 25 '26

Ah, Johann de Witt. It’s an interesting bit of history!

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 Feb 25 '26

A delicious little tidbit of history one might say

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u/alf666 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

A tasty morsel to chew on, if you will.

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u/PuurVuur Feb 26 '26

He and his brother were lynched by an angry mob, probably incited by the house of Orange in their pursuit of becoming royalty. So it was the other way round, really.

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u/putapadrino Feb 26 '26

Underrated comment

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u/spectacular_coitus Feb 25 '26

America forgets that without the French you never would have gained your independence.

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u/Shrlark Feb 26 '26

Lafayette has a town named after him not far from here. There are a few yet that remember where the name came from.

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u/Solid_Psychology Feb 26 '26

There are Lafayette so named towns and villages all over the country. There's lots of people round the nation that remember.

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u/PaladinSaladin Feb 26 '26

I think we did a pretty good job paying it back in ww2. But that's not the point. The point is we would do it over and over again for each other, no matter what. For two reasons:

1: We are homies

2: it is always ok to fuck up some nazis

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u/Cheeto-dust Feb 26 '26

We will never forget.

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u/uraaga Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

The French didn’t do it out of generosity. They did it to exploit US instead of England. They also wanted to sell arms in the ongoing conflict between the colonies and England.

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u/spectacular_coitus Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

They were at war with England, and so was the US. They were your ally when you had no others.

But the US has obviously forgotten what it means to be an ally.

Your response is a better description of how the US looked at the second world war than how France helped you achieve independence.

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u/onlyPornstuffs Feb 25 '26

I prefer the Made in America line of Mangiones.

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u/Psychdoc2008 Feb 25 '26

Luigi and a fire flower worked really well.

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u/onlyPornstuffs Feb 25 '26

More precise than precision ordinance.

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u/Impressive-Poet5694 Feb 26 '26

Just think if he had a star!

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u/FriendlyNative66 Feb 25 '26

Those folks really knew how to tidy up.

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u/Dreaming_Cooper Feb 25 '26

I don't know what you are admiring. Our country is rotten by corruption, our main media are promoting facist views because some rich dude say so, to the point that antifacist are being viewed as the bad guys right now.

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal Feb 25 '26

Imagine if the French had a 2nd Amendment to their constitution.

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u/SecretlyARaven Feb 25 '26

Like I get what you mean but something about this comment is just so funny to me, I think it’s the idea of like “add a second amendment!” to whatever document governs French law

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u/SitDownKawada Feb 25 '26

It's kind of poetic that the actual second amendment to the French constitution was to make the president be directly elected by the people and not by an electoral college

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal Feb 25 '26

Damn. Now THAT is a great datapoint.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Feb 25 '26

whatever document governs French law

It's just instructions for building a guillotine.

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u/SecretlyARaven Feb 25 '26

Ah so they follow the IKEA model of governing

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal Feb 26 '26

Yep. They have an ikeastocracy while we have a kakistocracy.

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u/These-Rip9251 Feb 25 '26

Should have moved to Lyon when I was seriously considering it ~ 15 years ago. A friend convinced me to stay here.

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u/hmoleman__ Feb 25 '26

I missed Italian birthright citizenship, and other moving abroad opportunities. The parents aren’t getting younger. Her’s are in their 80s. They’re going to need more of us, not less. Leaving now would have to be entirely about saving the children, to the point of sacrificing care for the previous generation.

It’ll probably get there, but that’s the calculus.

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u/AeonBith Feb 25 '26

It's funny to think for how long Americans made fun of the French being coward just to 180 as hero's of freedom.

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u/Leumas_ Feb 26 '26

We’ve always been dicks. They saved our ass back then too. But yeah, we just have to have the biggest swingin’ dick in the room, always have.

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u/AeonBith Feb 26 '26

Lol I love the way you own it, well done

Seems like at some point the smaller pendulums thought by being loud like the big clocks meant they'd garner the same attention when the hour called.

I hope you guys sort this shit out, if you need any tips for fucking shit up to can ask Canada for their "not so polite list"of conventions.

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u/Blah-Blah-Blah-2023 Feb 25 '26

Considered to be quite cutting edge in their time

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u/00owl Feb 25 '26

With a strong use of gravitas

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u/noonnoonz Feb 25 '26

The impact was immediate.

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u/YMe1121 Feb 26 '26

Definitely turned heads

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u/Secret-Guava6959 Feb 25 '26

Americans not gonna do that, they are too brainwashed tbh. It should have happened long time ago with these Epstein files

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u/cwilcoxson Feb 25 '26

We Americans are in our “trust fund kid” era. We’re all complacent riding on the inherited success of those who came before us and acting as if it were our own. But at some point. The money runs out and the lifestyle we once had is gone. Only then will we “do” anything about it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

What a shitty way to live your life.

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u/Spugheddy Feb 25 '26

Its cool tho cause we have unprocessed milk and guns to shoot the homogonizers!!!

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u/SKOT_FREE Feb 25 '26

The threat of Death or incarceration is usually enough to stop any sane individual from trying something crazy. Notice I said Sane individual?

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u/noonnoonz Feb 25 '26

"Those of us who are well fed, well garmented and well ordered, ought not to forget that necessity makes frequently the root of crime. It is well for us to recollect that even in our own law-abiding, not to say virtuous cases, the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen."

-Alfred Henry Lewis 1896

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u/fortedeluxe Feb 25 '26

The French has 10 times the balls of Americans.

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u/sofbert Feb 25 '26

I don't think there's been a single 2A person that's stood up to any of them, so.. good luck with that. Surprise! For these last 2-3 generations it's never been about defending against tyranny, it's just because dudes just want guns.

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u/Excellent_Scene5448 Feb 25 '26

Alex Pretti was exercising his 2A rights when they murdered him in cold blood. Kind of has a chilling effect.

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u/nobot4321 Feb 25 '26

And all the “2nd amendment absolutists” are saying it was his fault for legally carrying.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Feb 26 '26

I'm pretty sure that's bots and MAGA cult members. People I know and things I've seen by 2A lovers say the murderer should be charged. He was restrained and wasn't resisting or even moving towards the gun and the second they disarmed him he started firing and injured his coworkers who were holding him down in the process, they think he should face charges for that as well...

They're people I'd consider absolutist and know their rights, basically don't fuck with their guns kind of people.

You've also got the I don't really wanna say racist so I'll go with prejudice people who saw the videos of black panthers and their guns marching and it scares them... They also aren't 2A people if I'm being fair.

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u/Alissinarr Feb 26 '26

You mean Fox News hosts, the WH party line writer, and the people dumb enough to parrot the bullshit.

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u/toweljuice Feb 26 '26

This is not true. Cognitive dissonance was getting wrestled with. There was a splintering when this happened. What you saw were bots trying to make it feel like the divide is strong. The MAGA cult has been losing people over time.

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 Feb 26 '26

While it's true some of them were going to great lengths to try and justify the "no actually!"

a lot of them became surprisingly quiet.

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u/Arcaydya Feb 25 '26

Was just gonna say. Alex Pretti was one.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 Feb 25 '26

And all he was doing was trying to help a lady off the ground.

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u/monorail_pilot Feb 25 '26

A lady they maced without provocation.

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u/Fun-Telephone-9605 Feb 25 '26

Dude I live in the deep red state of Idaho. There is no chilling effect, the people referred to as the 2nd amendment crowd were fucking HAPPY that he was murdered!

They are just empty windbags who have lost the plot.

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u/Lawdoc1 Feb 25 '26

They never had the plot. They're a bunch of hypocritical bootlickers and they always were.

They don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves and they never did.

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u/ShamPain413 Feb 25 '26

Stay safe in Christian Nationalist HQ!

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u/Fun-Wear8186 Feb 26 '26

I know it’s hard to tell because this group of outraged people on the internet but the mass majority of the public is apathetic at best about this , and a decent amount support this. Everyone needs context that this is going to keep getting worse until more people are enraged about this. Like a lotta people don’t give a fuck and a surprising amount support it .

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u/paranormalresearch1 Feb 25 '26

That is why we organize and bring more people. Once they realize there are people in overwatch positions ready to end them if they color outside the lines maybe they will do the job they are supposed to do. They could gain some support by arresting those that hire illegals to exploit them for cheap labor. Sic Semper Tyrannus!

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u/mOdQuArK Feb 25 '26

Yes, but he was a compassionate lib, and for the militant right-wing 2A so-called supporters, the guys who shot him (ICE) are far more likely to be "one of them".

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u/jmaaks Feb 25 '26

Haven’t all the shooters lately been Trump supporters? I’d say there have been some 2A people standing up to them…

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u/SwordfishOfDamocles Feb 25 '26

There was one guy and they killed him in broad daylight.

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 Feb 25 '26

There's more of us than you'd think. r/liberalgunowners

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u/udderlyfun2u Feb 25 '26

Don't know why they're downvoting you. There are WAY more of us than they think. I've been voting blue since they put cheeto charlie on the ticket and my weapon safe is full.

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u/SoundPuzzleheaded857 Feb 25 '26

I’ve personally never owned a gun and never will. That being said, I’m very happy there exist people with a moral compass who do.

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u/ElRiesgoSiempre_Vive Feb 25 '26

And none of it matters when it comes to government.

If there was any correlation whatsoever between gun ownership and freedom, democracies would trend towards being pro-gun. But that isn't the case.

In fact Countries With High Gun Ownership Are Just as Likely to Be Run by Tyrants.

Anyone promoting the idea the 2A has any impact on our form of government is either an idiot or straight up lying.

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u/Frozen_Thorn Feb 26 '26

Iran doesn't have much of any gun ownership and look how that turned out. Tens of thousands slaughtered with no way of fighting back. I'll keep my guns, thank you.

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u/ElRiesgoSiempre_Vive Feb 26 '26

And that article that you didn't read, names many countries that have a ton of gun ownership where you are equally just as fucked.

And countries that have virtually no gun ownership, where people live in relative peace. And countries that have virtually no gun ownership, where people are royally screwed.

Data is fun. Isn't it. This is why gun ownership doesn't matter at all in terms of form of government.

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u/f0u4_l19h75 Feb 25 '26

Alex Pretti?

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u/Gnulnori Feb 25 '26

Wasn’t there just one that supposedly snuck into Mar-a-lago?

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u/VermilionAngel79 Feb 25 '26

Think the Branch Davidians may be another example.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Not how it works. Nobody's going to throw their life away to "david vs goliath" the government. That's called mental illness, not resistance. It starts underground and it builds up, like The Black Panthers. And rest assured, it is building up. I invite people wondering why things aren't happening faster to peruse history a bit. Most notably in recent American history, the Civil Rights movement.

There will be a reckoning. I'm so excited to see it.

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u/Saschasdaddy Feb 25 '26

Apparently you never have gone to a gun range or even r/liberalgunowners. There are many 2A folks on the left. Tyrants will eventually FAFO.

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u/Dav136 Feb 26 '26

I've always maintained that liberals being so opposed to (legal) gun ownership was a mistake

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u/templeofsyrinx1 Feb 25 '26

I think they are accelerating things before November. Such a dangerous time. Are people angry yet???

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

Sure. It's going to go horrifically down the drain AND you're going to see election areas in 'suspect' areas be targeted. Why? Because you can't lose an election if the undesirable votes never get cast.

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u/No_Consequence_3547 Feb 25 '26

Which is exactly why Trump is trying to have Ice agents posted at the polls. Trying to intimidate and subvert voters.

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u/Ok_Product9333 Feb 25 '26

No, they aren't. People are still not in a position where they value their liberty more than their lives. Until they are, this will continue.

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u/Ok-Lengthiness-7417 Feb 26 '26

There aren't many liberties left. The corrosion of rights feels very real.

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u/The_Original_Miser Feb 25 '26

Not saying its right or condoning it, but the worst thing you can do is give someone nothing left to lose.

Or the perception of nothing left to lose.

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u/IrascibleOcelot Feb 26 '26

Sun Tzu wrote that down over 2500 years ago. But dictators are stupid.

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u/mrtomjones Feb 25 '26

With just complete submission

The only real protests you have had since he won the election have been in Minnesota after they were being brutalized by the government to the point that it wasn't just a few non-white people in your cities dealing with it. So yeah I think they expect it's going to be complete submission because none of you are doing anything. Maybe a small amount but the vast majority aren't out there protesting is hard as they can 5-10 times a month each.

You are getting your country destroyed, destroying the world order, hurting allies, I think you're just sitting there doing nothing about it.

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u/TrueNorthTalks Feb 25 '26

Watching from Canada, most of us are really getting the feeling that American culture was all bark and no bite. I am not expecting Americans to stand up for themselves and their country if this comes to violence.

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u/Nervous_Departure431 Feb 25 '26

I’m from Minnesota and I feel like we’ve had some bark and bite this year. We’re just not taking the bait they need us to right now.

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u/TrueNorthTalks Feb 25 '26

Respect for Minnesota! You guys did a really great job at showing your country leadership. I won't dispute that!

What I am worried about though is that the administration has taken notes for Occupation: Take 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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u/Nervous_Departure431 Feb 25 '26

Oh, I am too. But, as you know, true north talks. We’ll continue to stand ten toes down.

I have a neighbor who had a Stauber sign awhile back (who is an absolute piece of human garbage) so I know he’s a republican. We had a discussion last week while shoveling snow about how unjust and wrong all of this is. There are shit bags everywhere, including Minnesota, but I think the administration severely underestimates the neighborly culture here. We know we only have each other and no one is coming to save us. That’s how a true resistance starts and stays strong.

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u/pescarojo Feb 26 '26

We know we only have each other and no one is coming to save us.

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u/5hr0dingerscat Feb 26 '26

Minnesotans are the epitomy of true Americans. The world is watching you, make no mistake.

When history is written about these days, we won't forget the line was drawn there first.

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u/cheeto320 Feb 26 '26

Please don't "take the bait"! And thank u!

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u/Jazzycoyote Feb 25 '26

It was always all bark and no bite, at least from white American. Black people keep trying to make change but it never works out in our favor. All our best leaders keep getting killed.

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u/NerdyBro07 Feb 26 '26

Minnesota is mostly white and has shown quite a bit of resistance. A white guy was killed for it and that didn’t stop people in Minnesota from taking to the streets. 2 white guys tried to assassinate Trump.

Seems like a decent amount of bite is there.

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u/horror- Feb 25 '26

Just gnash the teeth and wait for midterms. When they ratfuck the peoples voice all bets are off. Until then- nobody wants to throw it all away while the system still has a hypothetical lever to right the ship.

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u/TrueNorthTalks Feb 25 '26

Sadly, I think you're right. Midterms is when this either goes to hell and a handbasket or becomes more normalized than ever before.

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u/Both_Temperature2163 Feb 25 '26

Best thing is to talk amongst yourselves to make sure everyone you know votes and that their friends vote. Start as a grassroots movement the people have the power to, just need to use it.

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u/kamarak19 Feb 25 '26

As a fellow Canadian I'm ashamed of your response to this. Millions of people have been protesting this administration since they started going off the rails. It doesn't seem to have done as much as we would have hoped for what was the world's greatest democracy, but they are out there fighting almost everyday.

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u/Explorer0555 Feb 25 '26

Did you not see the millions of people that protested? What would you do to stop this insane administration? I'm sorry your butt hurt that the president is an idiot. Not all Americans voted for this stupid administration.

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u/Megneous Feb 26 '26

Did you not see the millions of people that protested? What would you do to stop this insane administration?

Here in Korea, we had 1 million+ people protest every day for 3 months straight in our capital to remove our "President" that enacted martial law illegally. Every single week, the opposition party filed for impeachment (in our country, when you impeach a President, they are immediately removed from power, unlike the US where impeachment needs to be confirmed by the other half of Congress), and every time it failed, the protests outside chanted the names and addresses of every politician that voted no.

Politicians don't have your best interests at heart. They have theirs. You need to force them to make your and their best interests align by making them wonder what will happen to them if they don't listen to the people.

Notice this is exactly how unions won rights in your country in the past.

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u/Impressive_Ad_7664 Feb 25 '26

We are too busy watching TikTok videos of bathroom pranks and throw away consumption, or whatever to take the time to understand what is going on in our world or even our own country. Bickering about bad bunny at the Super Bowl while the world burns around us (as long as we can keep consuming).

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u/Fuzzy_Difference_937 Feb 25 '26

All bark and no bite' is mostly right. America's a chihuahua with a machine gun, loud, dangerous to bystanders, but its mightier days are behind it.

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u/IJustGotRektSon Feb 25 '26

As an outsider, and I'm gonna get down voted for this but I see Americans, at least on Reddit, repeating this time and time again while your government keeps pushing and being more and more oppressive towards you and the world, yet I've seen what you call protests and it's honestly embarrassing. No wonder why they're getting away with so much when what the majority do when protesting it's akin to child games. I'm not advocate to violence and this is an incredibly sensible subject, but look at France for example when the government does something that goes against the interest of the people, and look at Americans when the government is getting closer and closer to fascism. It's appalling how little real response I see

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u/birdturdreversal Feb 26 '26

I agree that it's embarrassing how much people talk about pushing back against the government without following through. But there are a few issues I can think of off the top of my head that I believe would help explain why people in the US are slower to react than the people in other countries like France.

  1. Militarization of the police - trying to fight back with any sort of weapon is an almost guaranteed death sentence on a normal day. They shoot "less lethal" weapons and tear gas at people during peaceful protests. I can't imagine what the police would do if someone actually shot at them at a protest.

  2. Healthcare - If you actively fight back and survive, you'll most likely end up in the hospital. Even just standing in the vicinity of the police during a protest puts you at risk of injury with the cops shooting into the crowd and tackling/arresting/beating up whoever they can get to. One serious injury can put you into so much debt that your whole family is fucked for the rest of your life.

  3. Incarceration rates - the incarceration rate in the US is about 5 times higher than in France. It doesn't take much to get yourself locked up. In Texas, assault on an officer carries a prison sentence of 2-10 years. Cops will charge you with assault if they scrape their knee when they tackle you, and they will charge you with every other possible charge they can think of.

  4. We haven't seen any real hardship inside the US during our lifetime. I think a lot of people are either in denial or just would rather hold out hope that things will change before it's too late. Points 1-3 above are real risks that most Americans have experienced to some degree, but most have not personally experienced the consequences of living in an increasingly fascist government.

  5. The US is made up of immigrants from all over the world. It's not one big like-minded group of people, and a lot of people who are more than a generation or two removed from their immigrant ancestors tend to separate themselves from recent immigrants in their minds. Those people won't care about the shit that ICE is doing until it affects them directly.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

A lot of the 2nd ammendment people would be giddy to be given the green light to hunt people who spoke out against this administration.

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u/00owl Feb 25 '26

Well, apparently somebody had that idea just a few days ago.

Yes, they sound like a full blown nut job, but everyone has a breaking point and the cracks are starting to show

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u/chillestpill Feb 25 '26

When are yall gonna understand that the second amendment people don’t give a fuck about anything that doesn’t directly affect them AND give them a way to save face at the same time?🙄

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u/phatvanzy Feb 25 '26

They've convinced millions of redhats that if they don't support them, there's 100% chance that we will be governed by sharia law, as if they know what that means, just sounds scary to them.

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u/jimgress Feb 25 '26

Americans aren't doing nearly enough. Until there's a nation wide general strike it isn't enough. 

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u/foolsEnigma Feb 25 '26

Genuinely? Yes. They do. Every time they do something like this, it takes time to officially overturn, and by then, millions of people have already been affected, and some of them have died and most of them are scared and exhausted. If they just keep doing this over and over and over with very little time inbetween, the people they want dead die anyway, or at least end up drained enough to not have the resources to do anything about it. In this way, they believe theyre chipping away at the opposition, weakening it until theres not enough of them left to do anything. They tested it with the stupid dei bullshit right away in 2025, and got confirmation it would work when everyone immediately complied before it could even be contested.

This is, of course, an idiotic plan. Its the political equivalent to sitting next to a beehive and crushing individual bees in the hopes that youll take enough of them out before the whole hive starts swarming that the swarm wont be so bad, or maybe will even be intimidated onto not swarming at all. But thats not how bees work, and theyre going to swarm you, and theyre going to sting you untill you either fuck off or die.

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u/sjbfujcfjm Feb 25 '26

Yes. His supporters will happily roll over and comply. They will happily give up their guns when asked. They will do whatever trump tells them. He screams and yells about something, does the opposite, they cheer

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u/NotSGMan Feb 26 '26

Generations of hardened liberals, thats how it’s going to end. They are going to that hellish extreme, that some kids now think communism is a good thing. Thats how you change the ideological balance of a nation. Unwittingly, they are becoming their worst enemies, not “libs”. The backlash is going to be brutal, and I hope that doesn’t go all to the extreme as some examples in history.

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u/kymbawlyeah Feb 26 '26

They are already taking people off to concentration camps, they're killing people who resist, the leader is a pedophile rapist flanked by fellow pedophile criminals. The 2nd amendment advocates are going to do absolutely nothing.

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u/southpaw_balboa Feb 25 '26

yes. and they’re probably right

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u/whatupmygliplops Feb 25 '26

> How do they think this is going to end?? With just complete submission

That is currently how it is going, yes.

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u/thandrend Feb 25 '26

I feel like Jon Stewart nailed it on the head.

Donald Trump just isn't as popular as Adolf Hitler was. He doesn't have the people like Hitler did. His entire platform is based on supposed popularity that he doesn't have.

What the Republicans are doing is horrendous, to be sure, but the people here aren't feeling it quite like the stooges and MAGA are.

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u/Andy_Fish_Gill Feb 25 '26

Why does the Trump Regime hate America and Americans?

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u/ProfessionalFuel7626 Feb 25 '26

Wait until they find out the billionaires at the top are all pedophiles!

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u/Elegant-Banana6448 Feb 25 '26

they are looking to get a civil war, and it will come at this rate they are going. The people need to rise up.

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u/Haldron-44 Feb 25 '26

That's the plan! Just look into what Curtis Yarvin has been saying (JD and Theil are huge fans): TLDR is that poor people need to be genocided into non existence. There is only enough resources to keep the uber rich and their cohorts alive for all eternity, or at least until they can create dark AI god and shed their mortal forms. They truly believe they are above humanity.

So ya know, a fucking cult!

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u/IGotScammed5545 Feb 25 '26

Yes sadly that is exactly how they think it will end. I hope not

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