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New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history
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They think that going out and shooting Republicans will help. Because of course the ones with control over the military will be easily brought down by randos with guns.
Depends on the ones you are shooting. If you kill the 80 year old Republican who has barely any cash? No it won't do shit. If you snipe Charlie Kirk or a senator, then yeah cause it breaks the illusion of their immunity.
Violence is a tool and much like any tool you need to know how to use it. Taking out the propaganda welps and the money movers would be a good first step. It's also a lot harder to work against if done with variable tactics since asymmetrical warfare is a bitch to work against.
Chill with the fedposting. You know you're not actually anonymous here, right? You're putting yourself at risk. People have had the FBI knocking on their door for less.
Okay and? Id tell a fed I want to fill the reflection pool with the corpses of every member of the legislature, executive, and judicial. They'd probably dismiss as a non actionable pretty damned fast since white dude from redneck land is probably a pretty damned common thing to hear this shit from.
If done in a well-organized strategic manner, agreed! But somehow I don't think that's how it would go down.
You don't have to be well-organized nor strategic. Being chaotic and uncaught often works. I listen a lot to Behind the Bastards and Lions Led by Donkeys. It has given me the impression that effectiveness of a given behavior is a horseshoe, where the ends of the shoe have greater impact than a balanced style.
That word is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. But I agree. If only it were easy to do.
Surprisingly, it happens more often than one expects. Just listen to the podcasts I mentioned, all sorts of people, good and bad...usually the bad, get away with being weird in all the ways. Audacity is bit of a cheat code, because most people don't want to disrupt their daily life. This cedes agency to people who do things.
Only need the organization level of a WW2 resistance cell or an IRA cell. Squad level is more than large enough to execute effective operations on a strategic level so long as said cells aren't entirely singular, 5 cells each with 5 people for example even when working independently could probably bring a cities infrastructure to its knees let alone kill random politicians and their buddies.
Here's hopin'!