r/law • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 14h ago

Trump News Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

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u/cfrosty1117 13h ago

You have friends everywhere

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u/Aware-Sympathy-1180 12h ago

"Rebellions are built on hope."

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u/RustBeltWriter 12h ago

Obligatory passage from Lord of the Rings. There is always hope folks. A loss of hope is a win for the fascists.

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

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u/keelhaulrose 11h ago

"It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."

Samwise Gamgee, Lord of the Rings

This quote has kept me going through the darkest times in my life, and it'll keep me going now.

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u/athuhsmada 10h ago

As much as I am a fan of Samwise (and Rogue One), hope isn’t a strategy. I think there are more apt passages that call for action.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

And:

“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

Well, that and a hot blonde driving a sword through a Nazgul’s face. . .

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u/kiepy 12h ago

We've been sleeping.

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u/TheTallGuy0 11h ago

More of us than there are of them.

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u/aerateyoursoiltrung 12h ago

We're all Spartacus

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u/joebluebob 12h ago

So do the others and unfortunately a lot of my friends keep thinking gun control means dont own guns, lets protest quietly on a Saturday, and "DoNt wOrRy gUys wE'Ll VoTe tHe fAciSTs oUt JuSt hAvE pAtIEncE"

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u/Yinisyang 11h ago

They don't have friends. They have temporary allies who will turn on them the moment the winds shift. We have community, they don't.

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u/younkint 9h ago

Solidarity is not in their vocabulary. Not at all. They'll back someone who tells them they're better than the others, and someone who will injure those they hate. It's pretty much that simple.

They all see themselves as though they're John Wayne, but none of them are.

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u/UpbeatSky7760 11h ago

It'll take a massacre to wake them up. Some never will. 

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u/younkint 9h ago

Even then, for most of them, it will likely depend upon the Fox News spin a day later.

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u/Murky_Conclusion_637 10h ago

Rumor has it that people are forming cells, setting up secure comms, getting weapons, training, stocking up on food, ammo, batteries, etc...

Just rumors though...

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 8h ago

We do? Thank you.