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System controls internet, phone network, electricity, food and oil delivery. IF you want to stop a revolution in 21st century just shutdown everything and bloc
by ajuc 7y ago
System controls internet, phone network, electricity, food and oil delivery.
IF you want to stop a revolution in 21st century just shutdown everything and blockade roads. How long till people start dying? A week?
What are the rebels gonna do? Assauls tanks and machine guns? Or starve/freeze/cook to death without electricity/oil/food?
The American delusion of aremd citizens defending constitution is just that - a delusion. In real life army mops the floor with small minority of suicidal rebels, and the rest begrudgingly return to their usual jobs because it's much better than starving and fearing for life every day.
- Datsundere 7y agoArmy would at least make things so that us isn’t a laughing joke to the world unlike what the current administration is doing
- orestarod 7y agoOn the other hand, you have seen the mighty US army not being able to suppress a few guys wearing flip flops in Middle East. So, if things get real nasty you won't have people "begrudgingly returning to their jobs". If that thing is possible to happen, there would BE no revolution in the first place, as the conditions would be not harsh enough.
- neutronicus 7y agoThis "delusion" is also mostly a straw man in my opinion. Most people who talk seriously about armed rebellion in connection with the second amendment are not talking about attempting a coup, marching on the capital, engaging the military. They're talking about holing up in scattered rural dwellings and ignoring the law, with maybe the occasional terror attack mixed in. The Taliban has made a decent go of such a strategy so I don't it's an altogether risible position as you're implying.
- ajuc 7y agoThe Taliban live in a failed state with barely any civilization for decades already. What's to lose? I highly doubt average American will be OK with that.