Nearly a third of Americans – 30% – say people may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

It’s a sharp rise from 18 months ago, when 19% of Americans said the same.

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    3 hours ago

    Hi, my name is ICE, off to a death camp for you, according to me and my paramilitary goon squad who broke into your house/apartment at 3 am.

    Don’t bother arguing, that’s what the gag and spit hood are for.

    Violence is already here.

    Thoughts and prayers are not an effective defense.

    I would suggest either hiding, very, very well, which is probably impossible for most social media addicts who’ve publicized half of their existence, and for morons who think that their VPN isn’t keeping logs that can all be subpoenaed by the government…

    Or maybe some kind of actual local community organizing, involving you know, actually speaking with your neighbors in meatspace, getting to know them, forming at bare minimum a plan for how to deal with say, food shortage, brown out/black out, etc.

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      And what’s the plan?

      Going to start shooting Federal officers in the street?

      Here’s what happens; Federal government shuts down the power to the whole city. Mobilizes the National Guard. Brings in overseas ‘military contractors’ like after Katrina.

      Meanwhile, the 0.001% is at its beach house on Bali.

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        That all happens if you do nothing as well.

        Infact it literally already is happening, half of what you describe as a potential reaction.

        I am not going to give you the plan on an unsecured, publically accessible communication platform, you are a moron for asking for that.

        I, personally, am crippled, and plan to do nothing and remain as close to an unthreatening digital ghost as possible.

        That might, might actually work for me, because I am white, and have never registered as any kind of party affiliated voter, have never given my biometric data to any company or device for any reason, haven’t been on an air flight in 20 years, don’t have any social presence beyond this here psuedonomyous account.

        Maybe you could start your plan with learning some basic opsec.