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[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 118 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Meal team thicc

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 months ago

Vanilla ISIS

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

The Cream Berets

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This is what happens when you call the 1/6 insurrectionists “tourists” and/or give them light sentences. Throw the book at these fuckers each and every time.

[–] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago

Maybe they're just mispronouncing the word "terrorist", they aren't the most educated folk ya know. They did give those terrorists too light a sentence anyway.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you thought their surprise attack was a success, wait til you see how it goes when they announce it ahead of time.

This ought to be good.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Specialist:

Sir! 500 lb shitbag on a rascal sighted 3 clicks north!

Officer:

We got a week to plan then. Deploy the strategic cheeseburgers to slow them down.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"strategic cheeseburgers" is a line of cheeseburgers that turn slowly north, like Looney Tunes bird seed or Reese's in ET.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Or laced with ex-lax.

But they can do both things, I guess.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I wish some of the Mexican drug cartels would show up there at the same time, and then all the assholes in both countries could just finish each other off and leave the rest of us alone.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please....the cartels would wipe out meal-team-six in minutes and keep going.

Actual murderers who are trained in violence versus stupid cosplayers.

[–] smut@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The stupid cosplayers still have the means to murder unarmed, desperate civilians for the crime of being born on the wrong bit of dirt with the wrong amount of melanin.

That's why they're going. We don't need to politely pretend that the people who kill children for ringing their doorbell or accidentally getting in their car aren't just looking for any excuse to kill someone with their cool guns.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 14 points 9 months ago

Don't forget, crossing multiple states to hot beds of activity until you find someone to shoot is apparently self defense now.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 15 points 9 months ago

Something tells me the cartels aren't too concerned about these "border protections". Why would they get involved? In fact, the whole thing works out pretty well for them as a distraction.

[–] aew360@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

I would be cheering for the cartels in this scenario

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[–] theodewere@kbin.social 55 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A retired US Army lieutenant colonel is organizing an armed convoy next week to the Texas border to, he says, hunt down migrants

takes Green Beret courage to hunt down orphans and mothers in dire circumstances i guess.. is that the kind of courage they teach at Army Ranger School nowadays..

[–] Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] digeridoo@lemmy.ml 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Imagine how much further we would be as a society if we didn't have to deal with this stupid shit.

[–] vanontom@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The fact that the fairly drama-free Obama years are probably the best (or least insane) I'll see in my lifetime is incredibly depressing. These miserable, deranged lunatics and terrorists are determined to make life hell for everyone else, too.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago (4 children)

They're so eager for a civil war that they want to start one next week?

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm just surprised they want to ruin their Superbowl parties learning the same lesson as their loser Confederate idols.

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[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 22 points 9 months ago

The sooner the better. How else will you make sure we have a white Christian nationalists government before the election.

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[–] Granite@kbin.social 44 points 9 months ago

Is Russia paying for this one like the one in Canada too?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

When the attack the feds, let them suffer the consequences.

[–] arymandias@feddit.de 30 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Why is it so common to blame those poorer, weaker, and more desperate than you for your problems. Yes live probably has gotten worse, and obvious problems are not being solved, but migrants are the last people to blame. It’s such a destructive tendency, and it’s sad to see the same mistake happening again and again.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 15 points 9 months ago

The worst bit? The people most mad have the most in common with the migrants: low job security, lack of healthcare, food insecurity... if the people flying their Trump flags high would take just one second to look at themselves and at the rest of us they'd realize the enemy isn't people, it's unchecked capitalism.

And on that, I bet we actually agree. I just don't want to fix it with a side of hurting people who are different than me, that's all.

[–] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Because the border policy here is "fuck them brown people"

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

should be pretty easy to round up and incarcerate if they coagulate like that

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That relies on the government actually doing something to stop them. Something its shown countless times it’s afraid to do.

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[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Fat cells do have a tendency to "glom", as it were.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Send in an A-10 and let it feed.

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[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

All this shit keeps going because they didn't arrest all those morons taking over the wild life refuge years ago. It encouraged this crazy take on us military ideology. This is going to end very badly one day.

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[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Oh look, the gravy seals are out waving guns around trying to intimidate people again.

It's almost like the slap on the wrists these guys receive only emboldens them to keep doing it.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lets get them all there then give Texas back to Mexico.

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[–] mibo80@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

LOL wait til they realize they're just shutting themselves off from receiving economic benefits. Really trying to fast track Texas' isolation. Good - they can support their own now. Stop expecting shit from California and other states. No one wants to visit the Alamo, where another force of volunteers failed. No one really wants to move there they just have to due how cheap all the dusty flat shit they call land is. The weather is garbage.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They bringing extra batteries for their rascals? It's quite far.

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[–] RedditReject@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Fox "News" doesn't even have to roll out the ever terrifying "migrant caravan" this election season.

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guarantee you this battle would be over in less than an hour. Lol

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They want the backlash, bloodshed is just the potential medium.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They're domestic terrorists trying to be martyrs.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 months ago

I really don't think any of them have thought that far ahead. Much like a 19-year-old with a sports car, they all think they are (at least personally) invincible.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

the war on drugs is running dry so they need a new fake war.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry, not a single one of them is going to miss work.

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

It would be a shame if another cold spell hit that area of the country while that convoy was there. Imagine being in the middle of the desert as your fuel supplies run out while the temperature is freezing… Yep real shame.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Good. They'll all be in the same spot when the Insurrection Act kicks off.

Much easier to round them up that way.

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