The Teens Will Save Us

Re:The Teens Will Save Us by foolrush on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:06PM (#16454136)

> "“But we’re supposed to protect against tyranny! I need the same weapons the military would come at me with!” Dude. You know where I can get an Apache helicopter and a Paladin?! Hook a girl up! Seriously, though, do you really think you’d be able to hold off the government with an individual level weapon? Because you wouldn’t. One grenade, and you’re toast. Don’t have these illusions of standing up to the government, and needing military style rifles for that purpose. You’re not going to stand up to the government with this thing. They’d take you out in about half a second."

https://agingmillennialengineer.com/2018/02/15/fuck-you-i-li...

*Edit: Set link to original military poster.

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Re:The Teens Will Save Us by keiferski on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:16PM (#16454188)

I don’t have a particularly strong opinion on guns either way, but this kind of argument never made sense to me. The continual quagmire that is Iraq and Afghanistan for Coalition Forces almost immediately disproves it. The objective isn’t to “win” in a conventional war, it’s to be a perpetual resistance. See Napoleon’s misadventures in Spain (the source of the term ‘guerilla’) for a pre-modern example.

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Re:The Teens Will Save Us by foxhound6 on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:14PM (#16454177)

Sounds like the author isn't familiar with the history of Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq.

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Re:The Teens Will Save Us by aalleavitch on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:19PM (#16454204)

You mean places that all prove that weapons mean fuck-all compared to actual deep and lasting social change in fighting corrupt governments and belief systems?

The only way to actually defend yourself against a corrupt government is to change hearts and minds.

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Re:The Teens Will Save Us by foxhound6 on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:22PM (#16454218)

I was merely disproving the fact that a motivated population with rifles can't fight and (in the case of Vietnam) defeat the world's largest military. The jury is still out on Iraq/Afghanistan.

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