Things will need to get much, much worse before that can happen because right now, sadly, optics still matter.
There is a mosque in my neighborhood. Sure, they call themselves a "cultural center", but that's what they are. Their website claims that they are "progressive" and "integrated", which, I suppose, means that they don't stone their women if they don't wear the whole garbage bag ninja outfit. Construction has been going on there for the past couple months. They are clearly fortifying. I saw grates being added to the windows, there are trucks coming and going at all hours of day and night, and antifa types popping in and out. Now of course, maybe the antifa types found themselves a new religion on the account of easily-accessible goats, and the trucks are bringing catering, but somehow I doubt it. They are getting ready to go. This is a suburb. If I had to guess where the staging area is going to be for the riots on November 3rd, I would only need one guess.
And no questions are being asked. NONE. If a fortified compound with a Gadsden flag suddenly popped up in the same area, there would be screeching Karens at every public meeting, and cops would be knocking on doors. And maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing either - I live in my suburb so I can have my house, my quiet garden and my fruit trees, I have a tall fence so I can be left the fuck alone, and if anybody of any stripe wishes to play cowboys vs. indians with live ammo, would they kindly fuck off and do it elsewhere. But there's no concern at all, because instead of the Gadsden flag there's the moon demon symbol, and we must respect that, now mustn't we.
Things will need to get much, much worse before that can happen because right now, sadly, optics still matter.
There is a mosque in my neighborhood. Sure, they call themselves a "cultural center", but that's what they are. Their website claims that they are "progressive" and "integrated", which, I suppose, means that they don't stone their women if they don't wear the whole garbage bag ninja outfit. Construction has been going on there for the past couple months. They are clearly fortifying. I saw grates being added to the windows, there are trucks coming and going at all hours of day and night, and antifa types popping in and out. Now of course, maybe the antifa types found themselves a new religion on the account of easily-accessible goats, and the trucks are bringing catering, but somehow I doubt it. They are getting ready to go. This is a suburb. If I had to guess where the staging area is going to be for the riots on November 3rd, I would only need one guess.
And no questions are being asked. NONE. If a fortified compound with a Gadsden flag suddenly popped up in the same area, there would be screeching Karens at every public meeting, and cops would be knocking on doors. And maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing either - I live in my suburb so I can have my house, my quiet garden and my fruit trees, I have a tall fence so I can be left the fuck alone, and if anybody of any stripe wishes to play cowboys vs. indians with live ammo, would they kindly fuck off and do it elsewhere. But there's no concern at all, because instead of the Gadsden flag there's the moon demon symbol, and we must respect that, now mustn't we.