Seattle

yeah that like everyday currently.

It’s tempting to think that Americans have done this, but it’s really just the 10-20% of our loudest, dumbest, and most gullible

source: stuck here with them

The idiots that believe and/or spout that shit are the same ones who are in support of this fascism. It was, at best, bullshit from the beginning. A) the 2nd amendment is not and never was meant to be an allowance for insurrection. If you think insurrection was ever constitutionally protected, as in the framers were carving out a legal pathway to destroy what they built, you're deluded. And, particularly, if you think that that would hold true under the tyrannical government that would be in control in this hypothetical... you're a moron. B) Also you have pistols, rifles, and shotguns. They have those things as well as tanks, jets, drones, missles, and nukes. The idea of your uprising is a fantasy.

At worst, it was an excuse to keep your toys and your paranoid delusions of standing your ground if a brown guy ever tried to enter your home and minimize the tens of thousands of gun deaths each year as unimportant in comparison.

And even if an uprising were to happen today, the unfortunate truth is that it wouldn't be the whole of America against its government. It would have, at most, half of its people's support, a subset of that half actually ready, willing, and able to take up arms, and they wouldn't just be beseiging government buildings in DC. They would be fighting an army of MAGA and their allies and most of the military. And those in power would be in secret bunkers all over the globe well out of harms way.

Modern day insurrection in a technologically advanced and politically divided country would not be the American Revolution 2.0. Politics has changed. Warfare has changed. There will be a successful revolution again in a western country at some point in the future. It is an inevitability. But I don't think anyone even knows what such a thing would look like right now. My thought is that it would have to either be an extremely fast, secret, targeted, and totally destructive action over a matter of days to prevent time to mobilize against it, a joint war effort with the backing of another state power that can stand toe to toe with the regime, or the regime would have to be so repugnant in enough ways that it has nearly no popular domestic support and its own military would side against it. Given the amount of surveillance in aspects of modern life, the relative military power levels between the US and nearly all other nations and lack of willingness to start another world war, and the complete brainwashing and reality warping of a large portion of the population and the military to continue supporting the Trump Administration no matter what they do... I don't see such things happening successfully anytime soon. Call me a cynic.

What are you even doing in this community then?

I'm going to say the same thing I've said before to these kinds of takes - it's really fucking easy to send other people to their deaths behind your screen, isn't it?

It is not viable for us to storm into Seattle and what? Hold guns to people's heads until this guy gets his job back? What are you doing here?