• BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    You’d think the grunts would be aware of this fact on the basis of their superiors treating them as disposable but I guess a little body armor and a riot shield is all that’s needed for the illusion of invincibility.

    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Honestly it’s less about the armor, and more about the utter spinelessness of the population they’re terrorizing. They’re bold because Americans have, for a long time, been utterly pathetic. One of these days they’re gonna push too far, and shit’s really gonna hit the fan. A lot of these chuds are cowards at heart too, and they’ll die or rout. Then it’ll just be war between a population of terrified cornered animals and a small, well-equipped minority of bloodthirsty monsters.

      Nobody wins. But from the rubble, there will be opportunity for significant change. Maybe it’ll be positive. Maybe those of us left will be enslaved by feudal warlords. Considering the state of the left in America (essentially nonexistent) I call it a coinflip. shrug-outta-hecks

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        I’m slightly bolstered by the knowledge the Bolsheviks were small and barely existent and then their membership ballooned all of a sudden from a few key decisions. Hell, they were still basically the minority when they took control during the October Revolution. It’s just nobody liked the alternatives, so they just needed people not to get in their way or fight for the other side.

        I’ve been teetering between this comforting knowledge of positive history and black-pilled knowledge of times it’s gone terribly (all the fascism, the failed revolutions, etc).