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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 52 points 4 months ago (27 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.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago (11 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.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works -3 points 4 months ago (9 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.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months 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.

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