There is the possibility that you could be whisked away and then all your options are moot. What a weird piece of history we are all involved in right now.

demand a jury trial

Yeah Jury trials aren't common in dictatorships

Submitting job applications to ICE.

All these years we've been told that the reason it's necessary to let innocent children die in mass shootings is just in case the need to overthrow a tyrannical government arises. Guess they died for nothing

The second amendment loving NRA patriots are furiously masturbating to the fascist takeover of the federal government. Do not for one second believe that they believe in the second amendment to overthrow a Republican president. They absolutely would if a Democrat was president.

The biggest issue gun-owning liberals have is that they lack organization whereas the conservatives have it in spades. We desperately need progressives to begin banding together and laying out a plan on what happens when Trump's troops march toward Maryland, a liberal state.

We are quickly reaching the point where we need people who are not only willing to fight for our country, but are willing to die for it as well. I suspect many of us here are willing to do the former, but not many of us are willing to do the latter.

and here we are,

you’re validating the fears of the very people you dismissed, in the most backward ‘you might have been right about this’ I’ve ever seen, after decades of making gun ownership a partisan issue.

and then you ask me why haven’t i sacrificed my life to go on a murder spree… to kill your enemies… this is exactly what you are asking.

i don’t see where to join the Northwest Secessionist Forces, or any real opposition group to tyranny right now. what? is schumer going to send another nastygram?

i highly recommend that if you are or know a disabled person, someone on the LBGTQ+ spectrum, or a minority, to get armed and get proficient in its use.

Yes

He has a wet dream of using the military against protesters, after he was stopped last time. Someone told him he needed the NG installed ahead of time to make it work.

Indeed and the fucking Muscovites can keep the MAGAts and conscript, by force if necessary, into the Russian infantry. The USA invades Greenland.

I sincerely hope you are wrong but it definitely feels that way.

Genuinely honest reaction from an American- we have reached peak pointlessness.

The American public (in general, on average) is so stupid and ill-informed, staring only at their preferred echo chamber that the majority would rather mobilize against different opinions than have a conversation.

We could self immolate in the streets and it would make absolutely no difference. Opposition would celebrate it. Any method to resist or make change has been well and truly vaporized. Publicly stating our opinion or even stating objective fact is now pointless, as it will be instantly gaslit.
Not a single protest or demostration I've attended has made ANY difference at all.

Even right this second, I can hear the sound of Fox News in the office beside mine.

Even in my small suburban town lifted trucks STILL fly a Trump flag and scream and shout out the window at bumper stickers they don't like.

I can't say that's the perspective other Americans have, but I can tell you that's my perspective. The proverbial "ship is sinking", the hull has cracked wide open, and all I can do is plan what cardinal direction to "swim" in assuming I survive the capsize, which I almost certainly will not.