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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by voakbasda on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:57AM (#28314994)
In all seriousness, do you think the Australian citizens stand a chance of succeeding at a violent Revolution, when your citizens have largely surrendered [0] the necessary freedom to bear arms capable of fighting said civil war? Do you think that act of civil disarmament emboldened the current rise of totalitarian authoritarianism?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_of_Australia

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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by justinclift on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:46AM (#28315620)
There doesn't really seem to be any countries in the world which let their citizens arm themselves in ways which would enable meaningful revolution.

Not even the US - which famously has guns all over - would have any kind of chance against their own military.

Like... "people with guns" vs "stand off artillery, over the horizon warfare, etc".

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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by mixedCase on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:17PM (#28319304)
> Not even the US - which famously has guns all over - would have any kind of chance against their own military

That is correct, if the objective is to glass the entire place. The US military is the mightiest force in the world when it comes to that.

As far as quelling armed rebellions among the citizenry goes, I think just pointing to this months' news should suffice in lieu of an argument?

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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by justinclift on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:20PM (#28319345)
> I think just pointing to this months' news should suffice in lieu of an argument?

Thankfully, I'm not from the US. Was there there really an armed rebellion there?

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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by mixedCase on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:49PM (#28321366)
Neither am I, I was referring to Afghanistan.
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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by justinclift on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:33AM (#28324325)
No worries. :)

I'm not understanding how they're linked though.

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