If any progressive has an opinion on the Catholic Church, it’s most likely that is that it should be wholly disbanded, its assets donated to the needy, its relics donated to museums, and its clergy investigated and arrested for crimes against children.

Not much love between the two groups, so imagining some sort of alignment of goals at any point just feels like a waste.

Jesus Christ

Sure, they want more racists, especially armed racists, to close ranks with for when the coup goes from administrative to paramilitary. That’s why I have the feeling that these people coming in are a special breed of violent ideation.

But will their shared hatred of nonwhites and progressive globalism be enough to form bonds with Americans? They’re still foreigners moving to a foreign land at the end of the day.

My gut instinct is telling me these are the kinds of people from the era of Soldier of Fortune and shooting at UN peacekeepers for a paycheck. “Rugged individualist” ranchers who’ve been willing to beat “the coloreds” back with automatic rifle fire for years.

But that is likely a take based on my ignorance of the area.

One thing’s almost for certain, MAGA isn’t doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They will expect payment for services rendered. I’d keep an eye on the professional background of these people to get an idea of what form that payment will take.

I was always amused that “Sith” translated into “West”. Pretty on the nose.

Countries like Qatar, Brazil want to host the games for the prestige and the affinity for the sport.

US Republicans don’t give a shit about “soccer.” Being the brilliant dealmakers they are, they probably want FIFA to pay them.

I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take, and the event brings a bunch of brown people and Euros to town. Why would they care if it succeeds? If anything making it fail is part of their deliberate campaign of chaos.

The anglophone countries should be obvious. I wonder what Germany has going on?

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RE4 Leon is an operative trained to the highest level possible by the US government. Talented enough that he killed his own mentor after he became a superhuman.

Joel is a smuggler. Probably a very good one, like Han Solo, but still. He was picked as much out of desperation as he was for his reputation.

The NYPD are enthusiastic collaborators with the regime, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

It’s still the most overvalued stock on the US ticker and it’s not even close.

Even in the most charitable reading of the future, Tesla chooses a responsible leader, successfully course-corrects, and becomes “just a car company.” The techbro futurist hype goes away, and the value tanks back to reality.

“Activist/volunteer” makes it sound like he’s distributing medicine or rescuing pets.

He’s building drones to be used as weapons for the Ukrainian military.

To be honest he is a legitimate military target just like a munitions factory on either side. This is actually an improvement over the usual Russian barbarism.

I am glad he is okay and can keep helping the cause but the framing seems almost disingenuous.

They expect you to die of starvation, disease, and infighting. If you choose to lunge at them, they hope to have a network of automated weapons to drop the god particle on your peasant ass.

Once they no longer need your labor, you are an externality to them. A cost to be cut.

A failed cult would actually fail at some point, as in run out of money and lose the property.

These guys? Nope. I’m not sure a nuclear holocaust would uproot them at this point.

There’s a psychic/tarot reader on the highway near me that’s been around as long as I can remember, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a car parked out front.

In America there are tens if not hundreds of millions more guns than there are people. Any amount of “incentive” for Americans to buy even more guns is just pissing into an ocean of piss. The people who want guns already have one, or two, or 30. The exception being teens coming of legal age.

None of this has deterred the neo-Gestapo from goosestepping as of yet.

The real problem with your proposal is that it is a clear signal of treasonous intent against the FedGov from any state that passes it. They will immediately start arresting state officials no matter how coy you play it.

When I was a kid I was lucky enough to go on a Boy Scout sailing trip around the Florida Keys and snorkel around the reefs there.

I still distinctly remember the captain telling me to enjoy them while they’re around because they’ll probably be wiped out by 2030. Seems like that might have been optimistic.

The trajectory is pretty well set, though. There is no “might” get worse anymore, it will get worse without radical intervention. It is simply cope to believe that there is any reasonable possibility that this could just blow over.

It is worth treating with the gravity it deserves, even if there aren’t Right Wing Death Squads executing dissidents in the streets this very moment.

Order of operations.

If they detain you, you still have access to lawyers and others who are working to protect these people.

Have you been skipping the news for weeks?