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I also love how they picked NASA and EPA to talk about. When people talk about deep state they don't mean NASA or EPA, they mean FBI, DHS, NSA, and CIA.
And DEA, ATF, INS, DOD, SoA (or whatever it's called now), FISA, West Point, Harvard, NED, RNC, DNC, etc, etc
Conservatives will pretend to hate the deep state but will immediately support the fascists trained at the SOA because MUH FREE HELICOPTER RIDES!!! The same fascists who formed cartels and pushing fent to the US lol. But of course they can’t connect the dots outside of “ATF IS SENDING GUNS TO DOWN SOUTH!!” - which is true, but they think it’s because the ATF is uniquely evil lol
The right wing used to be so obsessed with the ATF that I almost find it endearing when I run in to it now., Like, I completely understand that Ruby Ridge was a big deal, and operation Fast and Furious most likely led to thousands of deaths, but a couple of thousand deaths doesn't seem like a lot for the right to ignore.
I think it’s funny that conservatives will sometimes try hard to convince you they’re not batshit crazy white supremacists, but the watershed moments for gun rights are police abuse of power against white supremacists and religious cultists.
Talk about the MOVE bombings or the black panther assassinations, and they’ll either be completely oblivious or support those killings by the police.
And yeah the ATF memes in gun circles are so god damn corny. We get it, you can differentiate a magazine from a clip and now you think you can take on an army of killers with immunity with your Glock switch and Gucci AR-15 with a coat hanger. The difference between left leaning LARPers is that the left typically don’t turn around and support more funding and power for cops after posting about ambushing them.
DEA were snooping on people's communications before it was cool.