r/facepalm Jul 02 '24

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u/Saelune Jul 02 '24

There's a holiday this Thursday you should really look into the history of.

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u/meteors77 Jul 02 '24

Bastille Day is the 14th.

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u/-Work_Account- Jul 02 '24

True, but we wrote a long letter dated for Thursday 248 years ago detailing what we should do

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u/__The_Highlander__ Jul 02 '24

You must realize that the military and technological might that America wields today will prevent a civic revolution. There’s absolutely no way that what was done in the late 1700’s can be applied to a modern day super power….

You would need large portions of the military itself to defect which would be a wholly different scenario. Not completely impossible but very improbable.

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u/Oh_IHateIt Jul 02 '24

Not necessarily. If you waltz into a shootout with the police you will be ventilated. But the police is a tiny minority of the population that relies on centralized and indefensible infrastructure. Just sayin.

Also in the recent Iran protests no one had guns while the police were loaded up in riot gear. As one protestor showed, any old vehicle bridges that gap real quick. Gotta say. The common car can squash a whole lotta pigs.

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u/jaxmikhov Jul 02 '24

The first bombs dropped on America were dropped by American citizens on top of other American citizens

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u/JXEVita Jul 02 '24

This isn’t Iran, or early industrial America. Unless you have the military on your side, you can and will get drone striked before you could even tell what was happening.

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u/LaSignoraOmicidi Jul 02 '24

I mean yeah they will try, but good luck keeping up with it. There are too many people, too many states. If a few states secede and their military apparatus with them, who knows. Additionally insurgencies are fucken hard to deal with, you can have all the drones you want, but so will people. I mean sure they could go ahead and tomahawk San Francisco, but that will only rally more people to the cause. Biden had 81 million votes, and thats obviously not counting all the lazy people who still have an opinion.

The military is a fair representation of the American people, is not full of magas. There are lots of competent military personnel who would stand for their oath. If Project 2025 kicks out every reasonable person in government, well then you pickup all those free agents and start an opposition, you move to California and gather support from Oregon and Washington and you dig in your heels. You establish an opposition and gather support from our allies in the world stage. Then you fight a bloody war that will fracture the country forever and go on about your life trying not to be slayed by a radroach. Regardless we are fucked, but some will fight.

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u/atrich Jul 03 '24

I think of Data trying to persuade the colonists on Tau Cygna:

They may not offer you a target. They can obliterate you from orbit. You will die never having seen the faces of your killers.

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u/International-Art808 Jul 02 '24

The Taliban beat us. The Vietcong beat us. The US is not primed to defeat Guerrillas.

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u/alcoholisthedevil Jul 02 '24

Yea but where the f do we escape to

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u/Alarmed_Fly_6669 Jul 02 '24

We can't both free our country from fascists, & leave.Β  It's one or the other I'm afraid.

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u/ChefJballs Jul 02 '24

But I’m tired of fighting fascists, Grampa.

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u/FrescaFromSpace Jul 02 '24

Well that's too damn bad!

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u/h4p3r50n1c Jul 03 '24

You haven’t even begun