Venture capitalist Bradley Tusk said that inequality in the U.S. could lead to an uprising similar to the French Revolution.
  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    9 hours ago

    Exactly as I’m seeing it. And I armed and practicing. Not saying, “I have a bunch of guns and ammo so I’m a tough guy!”

    Anyway, went to camp today and sent some .556 armor-piercing down range. Sight is good enough for me, good enough for 100’. Did you know that green-tips drill holes in 1/4" steel? I didn’t! Walked down to look at my target and it looked like I took a drill press to it!

    Anyway, unidentified, warrantless, masked men are targets in my book. Police patches? LOL, anyone can buy those on Amazon. Want a link?

    They’re not here yet, but I have eyes on.

    Yes, I’ll almost certainly die. No, I’m not letting them take my brown, legal wife.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      8 hours ago

      Your comment fills me with a deep dread that causes me to feel like saying something to discourage you from this path. Alas, it’s not your preparation that is causing that feeling, but the grim circumstances that necessitate this kind of planning.

      It’s difficult being on the other side of the world and completely unable to do anything than just watch as America descends deeper into fascism. However, I’m glad that I am not in the impossible position of making the decisions you’re making. I’m sorry that you are.

      Good luck, I hope you don’t die. And I hope that people like you are able to claw back democracy from the fascists

    • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      115·
      9 hours ago

      you wont last long. your best bet is to lay down those arms and come out with your hands up.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        “Do Not Split”

        Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast

        But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.

        And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.

        If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.

        It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.

        Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        8 hours ago

        you wont last long. your best bet is to lay down those arms and come out with your hands up.

        …said the Nazi to the Jew.