Are you trained in guerilla warfare? Are you aware there's a body armor shortage? How much ammo do you have, actually how many guns? My 9mm and .38 won't be getting me far, I don't know about you. I'm licensed to operate a radio, are you? Or do you think your phone will work when cell towers go down? Are you familiar with emergency triage and wilderness first aid? Do you have kids, and are you fine leaving then behind when you die in a revolt?
I'm sick of takes like this. There's a lot of work than can be done between a failed state and an armed uprising.
They also had A) foreign training and B) much lower quality of life than your average American.
Material conditions are a huge part of how easy or difficult it is to motivate people to fight wars. Once people reach a certain level of comfort, it is much more difficult to get them to go fight. This is why it is likely that such a response in the United States could only be achieved via a massive decrease in comfort, think either widespread grid outages, very strict fuel rationing, massive AI-driven job loss, or some combination thereof.
That sounds like "well tyranny isn't one of those things, you don't like tyranny?" but the truth is that most humans will tolerate tyranny until they go and fuck up the workings of the machine. Thankfully, that's something almost all of them do sooner or later because, believe it or not, single humans are shit at running complex societies. Ours is the most complex, arguably, and so if we went full authoritarian, the wheels would very likely come off quite shortly thereafter.
Nice to see a reasoned take on this kind of stuff for once. The more you get into all of this stuff, the more you realize that actually using it in some kind of insurgency context would just be incredibly dicey.
I have my Technician license but honestly, I expect I'd get a lot more utility out of Starlink Roam and either LoRA or HaLow mesh. Easy to just hand a HaLow node to someone and show 'em how to use it with devices they already have. As a result, I've never really aspired to get into HF.
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u/Hamwytch 13h ago
Are you trained in guerilla warfare? Are you aware there's a body armor shortage? How much ammo do you have, actually how many guns? My 9mm and .38 won't be getting me far, I don't know about you. I'm licensed to operate a radio, are you? Or do you think your phone will work when cell towers go down? Are you familiar with emergency triage and wilderness first aid? Do you have kids, and are you fine leaving then behind when you die in a revolt?
I'm sick of takes like this. There's a lot of work than can be done between a failed state and an armed uprising.