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[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Afghanistan beat the US army with rifles and IEDs

[-] theblips@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day 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

[-] parody@lemmings.world 2 points 11 hours ago

also, suppose we can plea

but just “pls consider 1A”

[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I tried joining some leftist movements on tor, but they wouldn't let me in without a referral. i have no idea how to get a referral.

[-] parody@lemmings.world 0 points 11 hours ago

Ya we write each post to the fed first and each other second

Should I be OK since I’m non-violent, well in Kkkamala’s Amerikkka I would’ve been but not so much in again great America

it’s just words

- “I Eat Ass” pickup truck guy in a simpler time

btw you expecting to see violence prior to midterm season + it used to justify martial law to “postpone” the election?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day 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.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

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

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] rivan@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

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

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Banana@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day 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.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day 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.

[-] theblips@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago
[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 18 hours ago

You will still be shot and abducted. It will not be any harder for the cops.

[-] theblips@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

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?

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