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scotty79yesterday at 7:32 PM5 repliesview on HN

Tell your history lesson to a Reaper drone. You can see how modern version of people's insurgency could look like in modern Gaza. This is exactly how would citizens vs. US play out. With Palantir painting the targets on the appropriate backs and declaring anyone in the blast radius as domestic terrorist.


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bluGillyesterday at 7:42 PM

What makes you think the army will go along with it? Sure some will, but expect many soldiers will rebel.

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AngryDatayesterday at 7:41 PM

You really think the US government can bomb its own citizens with impunity and not completely destroy their own industrial base that makes bombing citizens possible? The US government would very quickly collapse.

Refineries and factories don't work without people and are exceedingly vulnerable to locals.

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dttzeyesterday at 8:03 PM

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pjc50yesterday at 8:02 PM

Jan 6th worked, and they didn't even successfully take and hold the Capitol.