• Khaliso@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    That only works for internal resistance I believe? Like, Ukrainians can’t defend against the Kremlin with a sitting strike

    However, we definitely need more sitting strikes nowadays. We’ve grown complacent in exchange for small pleasantries

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      2 days ago

      Sure. Let yourself become “internal” and then assassinate and terror-bomb and sabotage them. I wasn’t suggesting pacifism, I was suggesting not outsourcing your “self-defense” to a state.

      Militaries can never give you self-defense, they can only give self-defense to themselves, more specifically military high command. Or the military-industrial complex if you’re feeling fancy. You are a source of taxes, morale, and manpower.

      One thing to remember is that the alternative to a military is being able to spend all the money and resources and labor and life that was going to the military on other projects. Even spending it all on self-defense if need be.

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      2 days ago

      We have only grown complacent because they have everyone starved on the edge of poverty and no one can afford to risk it.

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        20 hours ago

        The complacency came from being overfed on chemically engineered, heartily poisoned garbage, sportsball, video games, television, alcohol, drugs, and algorithms.