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Trump plan to end free elections in 2026 and 2028 revealed

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  • Buy guns. Buy ammo. Help others acquire guns and ammo.

    Train. Help others train.

    Form networks.

    • Let's say 500 of your closest neighbors and friends all buy AR-15s with the best optics money can buy and all the green tips you can eat. And you all secretly spend 60 hours a week drilling in modern combat.

      What are you going to do against a tank? Or a jet? Or just artillery fire? And "hit and run" tactics don't work when there are cameras on every street corner and it is a trivial problem to track people back to their suburbs.

      If The Right To Bear Arms were actually a threat to those in power then you can be damned sure it would have been repealed faster than a kindergartener can cry for their parents.

      Resistance is important and I recommend you go to protests and actually talk with the organizers. No, not the ones who are thinking up catchy slogans or what cool costumes everyone can wear. The old hats. The ones who are actually pulling people however many steps back from the curb they need to be or who are looking for idiots with guns who will get everyone killed. Make some friends and go from there.

      But all you are doing with "buy guns and train" is the same bullshit that republicans have been getting off on for decades. White people get to take hostages and occupy buildings. But in the eyes of the fascists? We're all n*****s.

      • What are you going to do against a tank? Or a jet? Or just artillery fire? And “hit and run” tactics don’t work when there are cameras on every street corner and it is a trivial problem to track people back to their suburbs.

        I agree with everything except this. Those cameras are getting smashed day one. Jets and artillery are very unlikely to happen in our scenario here. APCs and AFVs? Oh absolutely, and we don't even need to have the military for that, even your podunk PD has armored vehicles now. But they're not as durable as a tank. Wheeled ones are more susceptible to mobility kills. Building dragon's teeth and porcupines isn't hard. And there are plenty of IED and urban warfare guides available, even from the US military...

      • People who push this kind of thinking still think warfare is carried out and progresses like it did in the Napoleonic era: two orderly opposed fronts clashing head-to-head in theaters with well-defined boundaries - where the adversary with more guns/people/resources win. Because more guns/people directly equates to military power, right?

        These folks would do well to spend even the slightest amount of time learning about fourth generational, guerilla war. The fact that bullets ping off of tank armor does not disprove guerilla war.

        Let's take this meme back a couple hundred years and cast you as a counter revolutonary American at the onset of the revolutonary war.

        /*Wants to have muskets to fend off british empire

        /*british empire:

        Starts to seem silly when you realize even our founding fathers were doing guerilla warfare not long ago.

      • What are you going to do against a tank? Or a jet? Or just artillery fire?

        I'm going to say the same thing I say to everyone that brings this up thinking they've hit on some infallible logic.

        Small arms are all you need to eliminate people at the top of command structures, thus collapsing those command structures. A sniper named Simo Häyhä had over 500 confirmed kills during WW2. His job was basically to find and kill officers. He survived the war. You can also look at the Vietnam War. The U.S. was technologically superior to the Vietnamese. We still lost and went home without our mission accomplished. Same thing in the Middle East. Never actually accomplished our goals. Went home. Because it's really hard to deal with enemies using guerilla tactics with typical firearms.

        You don't seem to understand that protests, while important, don't make fascists stop being fascists. Force has always been required to put down fascist movements. If this goes far enough there will come a time when protests don't matter, at all. When that time comes are you gonna let a fascist put a bullet through the back of your skull or are you gonna pick up a firearm and do something? Can't do that if you don't have firearms. Can't do that if you haven't trained. Can't do that alone.

        If this escalates far enough and people don't do as I suggested, there will be no resistance beyond protests, which won't be enough.

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