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[–] [email protected] 92 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

You know that bullshit gets tired.

People acting like the armed left isn't preparing.

Like, motherfuckers, the loud 2a advocates were all right wing. The motherfuckers this fake motherfucker is whining about are the ones backing this shit.

But, more important, why does every motherfucker shooting their mouth off about this think that you win a fucking civil war by just going out and shooting things? Like, does nobody get that attacks need useful intelligence, planning, logistics, transportation, and it can't be out in the open, you gotta either fight it guerilla, or you're just dead.

People are fucking morons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

People are fucking morons

Your lips to Gods ears

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

People acting like the armed left isn’t preparing.

Citation needed.

But, more important, why does every motherfucker shooting their mouth off about this think that you win a fucking civil war by just going out and shooting things? Like, does nobody get that attacks need useful intelligence, planning, logistics, transportation, and it can’t be out in the open, you gotta either fight it guerilla, or you’re just dead.

Exactly the point of everyone who ever pointed out that your guns are completely useless if your government ever goes off the rails.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Citation needed? Nice try CIA I ain't no snitch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

After what happened to Fred Hampton, I doubt the armed left are going to pop their heads up publicly unless they're ready to do something and know they're not going to get whacked immediately.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

I won't believe the left is actually seriously preparing until I start seeing some Onion links around. We're probably on a list just for using Lemmy, which is notoriously leftist, and talking about this stuff publicly, unveiled, with a registered account is honestly below Hegseth level OPSEC

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I forgot they were supposed to provide you personally with a detailed overview of their plans on a public forum lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn't the one who used the "the armed left is preparing" argument in a public forum. I just consider it a stupid argument to use if there isn't any evidence that that is happening.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Well, the other side of it is that it doesn't matter how good your planning and logistics are if you only have rocks to throw when you get there

Nobody with a lick of sense ever said that a civil war against an established and well equipped government was going to be fought on battlefields, lined up and infantry vs civilian infantry.

And it takes more than guns, as the Iraqis and Afghanis showed. But calling guns useless in a revolution or civil war, much less as a resistance or insurgency is just stupid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I feel like it'd have to be a lot like Vietnam, with vets communicating 1 on 1 with soldiers, convincing them not to side with the government (trump has marginalized vets, after all). A military coup would be the best case scenario here. You convert his military, you remove his power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Guns are pretty much giving the government the excuse to just shoot you as a crazy gun nut (or extremist group,...) and shoot you without any morale repercussions in the people they use to do so and without any PR nightmare in the greater population for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

They're already abducting and deporting academics on the flimsiest justifications based off social media posts disparaging Trump and/or Elon. We're past the point that they need to label people something as heavy as gun nut to justify their actions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Non-violent protests in large numbers would be one option. It is much harder to get the military or police to shoot a crowd of a few tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, especially when it is people from their own communities. And when you do it anyway you have a very hard time suppressing it in your and the international media.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What do non-violent "protests" do? Why would police ever really try to supress them if they don't serve any purpose other than virtue signalling? Do you protesters expect Trump to stop ICE raids because "wow, I guess these signs with me drawn as a pig are really making me think", or MAGA supporters to stop voting for him because you wasted your sunday out in the sun walking around?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 54 minutes ago

What do shootings do? Do you genuinely believe a couple of people with handguns or rifles are going to achieve anything at all?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

just use signal, heard it’s pretty good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

It actually is good, though. Russians are resorting to sync scams in Ukraine so they can get intel, if Signal was breached they wouldn't need to do it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago

“We’re good on OPSEC”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago

It actually is, up to a point.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

We gotta go all malcom x on this bitch

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

By any means necessary

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

In the Internet age? Good luck

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

we've been in the "internet age" for almost 30 years now.

we're in the algorithm, AI, deepfake age now, the Methods and tactics used for an Information war in the 2000s was less effective in the 2010s, and all but obsolete in the 2020s