And why the hell do you think revolutionaries will be facing the army in open honorable combat? And what’s wrong with doing the fighting in urban areas and digging tunnels?
Sure, an AR-15 won’t take down a tank. But if you’re even asking if they can, you fundamentally misunderstand how revolutions and insurgencies work.
There has never been a revolution in history that wasn’t massively outgunned.
The real key is that you use the small guns to seize control of the big guns. And you recruit people who know how to use those tanks and other heavy weaponry. Revolutions often start with raiding armories and military bases for this very reason. You might think it’s impossible for a bunch of randos to storm an actual army base. But history proves otherwise. How many military bases are actually, right at this moment, actively preparing for a large group of civilians to storm the fences? The element of surprise is a powerful weapon.
Yeah, except I would make this independent of the police entirely. Let the cyclists sue the drivers even. Police generally don’t consider cyclists to be human. They don’t charge drivers when they kill cyclists, as cops are all fat and lazy and could never dream of cycling on a city street themselves. They consider drivers humans like themselves and cyclists disgusting poors worthy of violence.
You have to cut police completely out of the loop. They simply do not regard cyclists as human beings. This is just going to end up with a bunch of photos and videos sent to the cops, and the cops stating they simply can’t do anything about it, because reasons. The same thing happens when a non-rich person sends cops video of their robbery from their home cameras. Cops only care about oppressing minorities and cracking skulls at protests. That’s why people become police officers in the first place. Good people don’t become cops.
You mean they’ll check to see who the car belong to, and if they’re one of the people that is above the law.
What cities really need to do is use this for driver behavior around cyclists. Drivers have to maintain safe passing distances, but they often don’t. And drivers often drive incredibly aggressively, sometimes deliberately driving cyclists off the road. Cyclists should be able to wear cameras and issue tickets to drivers that violate the law. They should get a portion of the ticket revenue for their trouble.
It turns out robots are much more useful as an excuse to suppress workers rights and wages than they are at doing real work.
Work in another area that’s had many immigrants deported, but in an area and industry that doesn’t fellate Republicans.
Conservatism is built in reality denial and magical thinking. That’s literally the entire foundation of it. Anything that isn’t politically correct to the current party narrative is immediately dismissed or denied. The modern Republican party is a Maoist cult of personality.
Your city was built by people who walked. Your ancestors just weren’t as delicate and lazy as you are.
Are you an illegal person? Has your existence been declared illegal yet?
Sorry. Open source offends corporate interests and is therefore pornographic. You’re a pornographer.
Are you one of those pornographic people? Large swathes of the population are considered intrinsically pornographic by the authors of these laws. Queer people are walking talking pornography simply for existing. Also most politics and any news dealing with violent events is pornographic.
Have you ever shared a story about police brutality? You are a pornographer.
Queer people are pornographic according to the authors of these laws
You’re blatantly ignoring how these laws are actually implemented and assessing them instead by taking the lies of their authors at face value.
Oh how Captain Hunt has fallen from his halcyon days aboard the mighty and noble Andromeda Ascendent…
I would add the ability to use a bidet. Travel bidets exist, but the ideal just feels gross and embarrassing.
Except we can’t just insource production of cutting edge computer chips. We literally don’t have enough people to build smart phones. Those require a global supply chain to be remotely affordable. Having a global economy gives us access to technology we would simply have to go without if we try to do everything ourselves.
I can tell you are not a serious person, as you pretend impeachment means anything.
My vote is “sent feet-first through a woodchipper running at quarter speed.”
And yet the US lost in Vietnam, despite dropping more tons of bombs on Vietnam alone than used in the entirety of WW2. Come on, the entire 20th century was a story of revolutionary groups inventing the science of guerilla warfare. Small poorly armed forces can take on nation states in the right condition. Did you just…forget…the entire last century of history?