• grue@lemmy.world
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    Exactly: non-fascist-controlled states should’ve been mobilizing their militias against the fascist thugs by now.

    • AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee
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      The State militias (State Guards/State Defense Forces) have mostly been abolished and have been almost completely replaced by National Guard and the rest of DOD. The remaining State Guards/State Defense forces have been so thoroughly neutered and atrophied as to be essentially adult versions of boy scouts, but with less activities.

      The States should restart their State Defense Forces and take them seriously as a real and legitimate military forces, not unarmed disaster response organizations.

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      People will say they aren’t but the national gaurd listens more to the federal government than the state when it all comes down to it.