I suspect the same way they always do. The people who send thumb sized drones to kill have to go home and live somewhere.

What's a bullet but a really fast, low tech thumb sized drone that can kill?

> The people who send thumb sized drones to kill have to go home and live somewhere.

All 12 of them? They may live on their private islands.

Or even in the Whitehouse. Do you think approaching Whitehouse with a gun will be easier in the world of military thumb sized drones than it is today?

Those 12 people don't actually send the drone, they just tell someone (to tell someone, etc) to send the drone. Until we have full Skynet abilities, they will need a bunch of people on the ground to do the work.

Tech companies require less and less people to operate. Military will become tech company once small drones make infantry obsolete.

Right, but even tech companies have a lot of people. Google has 85000 employees, plus many, many more that produce supplies they depend on (like most of the hardware). It's not 12 people on private islands.

Probably the same way the Vietnamese defeated a nuclear power. Or Cuba. Or the English Navy against the Invincible Armada. Or any other number of times an underpowered force beat a superior one.

> Probably the same way the Vietnamese defeated a nuclear power.

So we got United States of Vietnam now?

> Or the English Navy against the Invincible Armada.

Ah so the plan is to camp with guns around military bases an shoot at whatever comes out? I predict great success.

> Or any other number of times an underpowered force beat a superior one.

So in a really unaticipated way and with unimaginable dose of luck.

> So we got United States of Vietnam now?

No. After 20 years of fighting, we got the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (Also FWIW the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.)

> Ah so the plan is to camp with guns around military bases an shoot at whatever comes out?

The English didn't blockade the Spanish Armada at their docks. They attacked the clustered enemy under favorable conditions on the English coast.

> So in a really unaticipated way and with unimaginable dose of luck.

Perhaps. Hard to say how it might happen. But if I had to guess, it'd probably involve weapons of some sort.

No, in a pretty common pattern, and with the difference that fighting for your freedom and having popular support around the AO vs being some scum of the earth dictator government makes.

I'm not sure why gun nuts think they will be seen as the good guys if the regime will control army, law and media and have some degree of popular support.

This doesn't have to be botox. It might be just horse tranquiliser followed by detention and whatever passes as due process in the future.

Its simple really, we need a blockchain-style solution to ensure that the populace as a whole directly controls the largest bot army, otherwise the future is just one dictatorship unto oblivion

Could you please elaborate on how this could ever be considered simple?

Oh, keeping military power in the hands of the citizenry won't be simple to implement,

but it's quite simple that if we don't implement something in that realm, then we're in the twilight of free civilization.