• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I have a question. How do you organize 23.1 million people across 3,796,742 sqare miles of territory when the government just has the ability to jam communications?

    What are the logistics of getting food and clean water to 340,000,000 people over that amount of territory? Whose going to do that?

    How many people are stocking dry goods, know how to build and sustain a fire for heating and cooking, and own even a rudimentary generator? If you’re talking about armed rebellion there’s a lot that goes into it and when you get right down to it the government holds the keys to quite a lot of stuff.

    What stops all those people who don’t oppose the government and will fight you from stymying every armed rebellion we manage to orchestrate?

    You are someone who doesn’t think about the scale of what you are suggesting or the logistics. It’s nice to have the aspirations but you really gotta figure this stuff out before you suggest people get armed for something they also don’t understand the scale or logistics for.

    This isn’t about defeatism. This is a reality check. If you don’t know the capabilities of your government you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s clear to me that you don’t and you haven’t thought about this.

    Movies do not teach you how long rebellions take or that it’s not about individual battles but about the ability to logistically survive to keep fighting. Your comment comes off as if you expect this to be a singular battle. It won’t be.

    There are better ways to oppose a government that is acting against the population than to try direct violent force.