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7 sats \ 4 replies \ @crenshaw 25 May \ parent \ on: "Completely Insane": Wired Posts DIY Video For Mangione's Ghost Gun news
I agree with you in principle but practically speaking, do you truly believe that homemade guns are a defense against authoritarian governments? Even at scale this is a stretch. Again, I agree with the idea of defense against the state in principle but in reality I don't think people stand a chance against determined and powerful militaristic states.
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44 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 25 May
If I was just thinking in one move I would agree with you but resistance is a phased affair. The deck is stacked but I'm not a fatalist. The very threat of resistance is better than nothing.
Ultimately it requires numbers and people dropping support for regimes. This can happen without a shot fired as we saw with the USSR. Far to many of us are black pilled.
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 25 May
Yes. May I suggest you think about an unarmed population that is facing police. They ambush the gov police and use their weapons to take the weapons from the gov police they kill. Now they have better weapons.
This has happened already.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 25 May
Myanmar is what I was trying to recall.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 25 May
A story about it
https://observers.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220114-3d-printed-weapons-myanmar-rebels
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