cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7730578
Drones with explosives go vrrrr.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.
eventually those with money and power could have AI controlled, shoot on site, robot and drone security systems wherever they want. all legalised by the corrupt government.
Castles often weren't conquered by forcefully breaking through the walls but rather by keeping them under the siege until their inhabitants either surrender or die.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." -General George Patton
Seems a lot simpler to just not be a greedy POS.
Well, contrary to their self-perception, they're not always the sharpest spoons in the forest. You don't have to be when you can afford to pay more competent people to take care of literally everything for you 🤷
if only, and stay with me here, if only there was some contraption invented since we last had moats around castle, i don't know, something that can fly in the air and carry, oh i don't know, bags of shit over these moats and into the castles, maybe even more of it at the same time like swarms of bees, maybe we could even name it after them like bee, or worker, or drone, or something. that would be something, I tell ya!
Doesn't sound like any trebuchet I've ever heard of. Also plague riddled corpses work better, although they might be hard to come by nowadays.
plague riddled corpses work better, although they might be hard to come by nowadays.
With RFK Jr in charge of the HHS? Give it a few months and there'll be plenty.
That's called a market opportunity.
Launch me alive and I will either fall a corpse or live long enough to start the fire.
The hero we need 🤣
You'll pretty much just be a corpse, not sure what You'll accomplish. Seems a better idea to launch a bomb, or a rock.
Metal canister filled with shit and piss will work just fine too.
This is plan B. Plan A is to create militarized security force that's a bit less poor and a bit more privileged than everyone else and is ready to kill people in order to protect their position.
Do you mean the police or make a whole new group?
I like trebuchets. They were really popular a while back.
Too unwieldy, we have mortars now.
I've heard that guillotines could be making a comeback.
Obviously, these are different contraptions for different purposes but with the same basic aim in mind.
Society failed when it allowed people to start accruing this kind of wealth
It’s been a problem since pretty much the very beginning.
Yes, it failed at the very beginning.
And will always continue to fail in the future.
That wall looks fairly easy to climb over
How are their defenses against suicide drones? What about human shit dropping drones? Bomb dropping drones?
If it's a war they want
They'll have radar, and antiaircraft artillery.
Looks like mortars are back on the menu
Air supply. You can find the intake with those microphone cameras or just old school smoke.
The Hamptons are a low lying area. You never want to be defending a low lying area.
Air supply? Why would you want to threaten them with great music ?
yeah but that could be hidden (if they're smart) miles away.
If they went to that much trouble it's either the direction of another property probably owned by a shell nearby or it's a large piece of land and you'll need ground penetrating radar or a ditch witch.
Everything needs vents.
There is a very thin line between “Safe inside your bunker” and “Trapped inside your bunker”. The people on the outside dictate how that plays out.
Walls work both ways. Sieges are back on the menu boys!
I was thinking it's be a real shame if someone waited for them to go inside and then welded the gates closed.
Delicious. Where I live (Auburn WA, represent!) the copper and the plumbing feeding into the property would be stripped and sold for pennies on the dollar for fenty. And then when a food or repair truck comes for resupply, the nanosecond the driver leaves the truck, it's gone. Jacked. Bye bye. Those rich aholes gun starve to death yo
Do they not realize the ones installing their security devices are also the same people they are trying to protect against?
"We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep."
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