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[–] 42 points 1 year ago (21 children)

For anyone still unsure, it is time to purchase weapons and start training. I don't care what episode of Real Housewives of Whatever is on this week. It's time to arm up and accept the reality that you may actually need to take up arms against your government if things continue on the track we're on. You don't want to be caught behind the curve on something like this.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You Americans always skip to shootouts for some reason. You went from "I don't have stamps at home so I am skipping voting this decade" to fantasising about shootouts with police real fucking quick, skipping millions way more useful and way more non-community-destructing ways to resist, as if resistance isn't the point, but dying "glorious" death is.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Skip to" isn't quite fair, because the million things that can be done need to be done by tens of millions of people, and not everybody has those opportunities. So for some, "Guess I'll get a gun while I still can," is just the next thing they can do after voting and protesting and calling and writing and donating and speaking, because we've been taught for a long time that that's how these things go and the best defense is being armed.

    And even beyond that, saying "You Americans" as though we're all a like-minded group is as silly as assuming that everyone is from the US.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    not everybody has those opportunities

    Everyone has a bunch of opportunities between doing nothing and "here I go killing again". Everyone. But (and yeah, I'm engaging in generalisations, but you're not beating the allegations so to speak) "you Americans" always put "I need to start shooting people" waaaay up high on the hierarchy or possibilities.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Sure. That 1911 will sure help against that V-22 dumping Marines on your front lawn.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How does it work? Is there like a website or something?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The US lost in both Vietnam and Afghanistan because occupation is hard. There isn't an army on the planet that can even come close to taking on the US military in open combat, but insurgencies are a completely different animal.

    Social media and AI mass surveillance might make a difference, but I kinda doubt it.

    I don't think this is where we are headed, but it wouldn't be an automatic win for the military. Unfortunately, the people who end up in charge after an uprising usually end up being worse than the people they replace.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    insurgencies are a completely different animal

    They may not be able to occupy an entire city (without bombing it to the ground) but when they come knocking at your door, if you insurge you're likely dead.

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