Re:Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital curren...
by goodluckchuck on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:39PM
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> Unless enough citizens were on the side of the coup.
That was kinda the whole point of the revolutionary war. #DemocracySpeaksManyLanguages
Re:Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital curren...
by zozbot234 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:16PM
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The flip side is that many people in the military would absolutely sabotage the coup. Keep in mind that everyone in the military is bound by an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic.
Re:Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital curren...
by AutumnCurtain on Sunday February 06, 2022 @03:09PM
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Purely anecdotal, but from discussion with my military friends there is widespread belief more than half of enlisted soldiers would've supported the Jan 6th coup attempt militarily. That percentage is far smaller along officers. With two exceptions though the people telling me this are officers and that will slant their view.
Re:Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital curren...
by selectodude on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:07PM
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It would be interesting to see how these "3 percenters" would do living in the mountains and eating bush meat for five years.
Unless enough citizens were on the side of the coup. I don't know why no one ever seems to acknowledge that as a possibility, especially after Jan. 6. Gun owners are just as driven by politics and ideology as anyone else.
Plus just because you have a gun in a safe and maybe sometimes shoot watermelons in the backyard with it doesn't mean you'll be effective in guerilla warfare against an actual military. I know Americans like to bring up Afghanistan and Vietnam as examples of guerilla warfare succeeding against the US, but fighters in both cases still went through training that would break the average American gun owner.