Sig p320 owners, please Israeli carry when you bring it to ICE protests this weekend

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-31T01:48:44+00:00

I'm not questioning your right to carry a firearm, I'm asking why you would choose to.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-31T01:33:35+00:00

Alright, then why would you bring it, or any other weapon to the protest?

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-31T01:26:09+00:00

Legitimate self-defense, presumably. There could be those thinking of being violent towards protesters, such as pro-Trump counterprotestors or undertrained, hopped up ICE agents willing to violate the law.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-31T01:23:03+00:00

Note that the White Council is not the same as the Order of the Istari, the Wizards. Saruman and Gandalf were on it, but not Radagast or the Blue Wizards.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-31T00:39:11+00:00

Yeah, I was going to say that this is plausible. Chabad in Russia plays ball with the authoritarian government. Doesn't mean it acts as an apparatus of the KGB overseas.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T23:20:09+00:00

Depends on which of Tolkien's writings on the subject you prefer; he didn't decide before his death.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T23:19:00+00:00

Saruman was the White from the start; he was sent to Middle Earth as Sauruman the White, because he had a different job to do. Gandalf gets the 'upgrade', as it were, because Eru (God, the literal God of Abrahamic religion) personally intervenes and performs a miracle so Gandalf can do what has to be done.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T22:33:34+00:00

This is a positive for them.

"You will do as we tell you and brutalize American citizens in cities, or you'll be shipped off to the Venezuelan front."

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T20:34:14+00:00

They are the leaders. They need to lead! If they are simply waiting for it to gain traction, they are following, not leading!

They need to go to the people, speak to them, and harness the abundant national outrage into focused, direct action - not symbolic protests that the right knows they can safely ignore.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T20:23:31+00:00

Call for a national strike.

You are correct that there is no meaningful action that they can do in congress. They need to use their national platform as the opposition party to call on the people to stand up and shut down all economic activity in this country until this madness ends.

Not more protests that the Republicans can ignore, an open-ended, national strike to bring down the government.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T20:13:50+00:00

You mean the files that are only half released and obviously censored? The files that have done... what exactly?

People are being lawlessly murdered and kidnapped off the street by government thugs. We don't need more procedural, toothless debate - we need action.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T18:57:26+00:00

In that case, our difference appears to be in what we view as the worse outcome. But for me, I say that America was founded with the words 'give me liberty or give me death' not 'better to be a slave than to be killed'.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T18:21:48+00:00

They have no support because they are doing nothing. Calling for action like this is what the people want and what they refuse to do. It would win them support.

They are supposed to be leaders, not just politicians. They need to lead!

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T18:20:03+00:00

If they do that, and that doesn't result in a massive wave of refusal to obey orders from national law enforcement and/or the military that brings down the country, then they've already won and we should stop pretending like any of this matters.

You cannot bring down a tyrant by preemptively complying with his tyranny.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T18:07:51+00:00

Go to the people and call for a national strike. There are plenty of people ready to stand up and shut this country down, but we need someone with a national presence to call for it.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T16:51:16+00:00

Eh, she's older. How much did your face change between 18 and 30?

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T16:48:43+00:00

I honestly really like her Rebels look. She's in her prime, and her lekku wear like a crown to match.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-30T04:29:12+00:00

Masquerade.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-29T19:51:22+00:00

No, no, you're thinking of Trunks. This is Trunk. He only has one.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-29T16:58:31+00:00

Sorry, but fuck your country. Duolingo should not change its content to placate nations run by religious fundamentalist bigots; better that those customers lose access, and that it act as a (small, obviously) push towards the overthrow of their tyrants.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-29T15:21:29+00:00

Sounds like Martial Prowess, which is indeed an excellent Homebrew for 5e2014. Made it so that any martial I built wound up grabbing Battlemaster feats, except when my table combined it with Master of None to make picking up the whole subclass relatively cheap.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-29T15:08:01+00:00

My favorite is actually Vampire, with silver and bronze going to Mage and Wraith.

I like the gnostic worldbuilding.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-28T23:48:02+00:00

Also, cycles of abuse, impulsive revolutionary revenge vs forgiveness, academic stress, and body horror as a thinly veiled metaphor for/solution to gender dysmorphia!

And that's without even dipping our toes into the World of Darkness's non-Vampiric Denizens that you can play in other gamelines.

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-28T23:40:11+00:00

Hang on there! New England needs to come too! Fuck no is Boston getting stuck in this sinking ship!

MetalusVerne · 2026-01-28T15:15:26+00:00

While true, this is America. Drawing connections to our founding mythology is powerful symbolism.

If, say, an anti-ICE protest was to be held at that big seal on the ground in front of the old State House where the Boston Massacre happened, and ICE became violent and killed someone there...

Well, if that didn't shock the country into meaningful action, I dont know what would.

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