Message from @DrWittMDPhD
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The average citizen is a coward
if we had that degree of unity, we wouldn't need force
what the fuck u talking about
That's fine, actually.
They can be cowards.
Even passive resistance would be enough.
I'm not saying that America is it that stage. I'm saying that his premise that a government has to be impossible to overthrow is flawed. The point of the second amendment is to make the opposite true
If we had that degree of unity, not one drop of blood would have to be spilled. Just stop paying taxes.
You will bring your government to its knees in months.
But @DrWittMDPhD Does have a point, the DOD did a study on how sucessful it would be for the US military to literally fight against its own civilians, they said it would be vastly unfeasable. Alot of soldiers will abandon the military immediately
I'd say most, not just a lot
and all their supplies and deports would be destroyed/cut-off
No, I am talking about the case of there being the unity of 150m people.
depots*
If there was that level of unity among the population, the point would be moot.
Just decide to not pick up the trash in cities for a month.
That alone would bring the nation to a standstill.
It would be fuckin Robespierre guillotine time before marshal law. K, a hostile government could easily unify a resistance of at least half the population
Refuse to operate any public transport in New York.
Not 150m armed militia men, but real resistance members
Yes, but that's the point I am making.
With that level of unity, violence is unnecessary.
Passive resistance on that scale can bring anything to a standstill.
Yeah and 150m would not be that hard if the government tries to use our military to enforce some fascistic marshal law. That's so anti American it's insane to think about and we'd freak the fuck out
We're not cucked continentals
But, the sad part is that government abuse can continue for a very long time and people will not coordinate.
Maybe that is different now with the internet.
The Gulag Archipelago detailed this well.
Yeah if it's a slow thing, but I'm talking about the marshal law scenario
The army of the Soviet Union was incredibly weak for years before that fall.
If people had formed militias, it could have ended far sooner, but they were taken away one by one.
They still believed in the cause, some even when they were already in the Gulag.
Every productive person in Sweden could just decide to stop paying taxes and the migrant crises would end within a month.
The thing is, people are divided against each other, so they get states that abuse the ones who are most compliant.
The migrant crisis isn't as bad as the Swedish government using it's military to strike it's own people. You keep changing the scenario.
Also, Sweden isn't America
No, it's actually a very similar scenario.
I see there being one thread in all of this.
Bad policy harming a country is not the same as military force on one's own populace.
I see it all as the abuse of dysfunctional states that no longer serve their people but are there to abuse them.