• zd9@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    In reality, the starving monkeys would kill the shit out of that monkey and take all his bananas to share with everyone else.

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        A billionaire can’t hold a million AK47s. A million people can though.

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            The population of the United States is over 300 million. If we lose to the robots that can’t even load a dishwasher it’s gonna be really embarrassing.

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              Never get involved in a land war in Asia is a known truism, thanks to the frigid Siberian winter and the mud season. Except there are plenty of historical examples of the Russian steppes being conquered, usually when there is a lot of internal strife between the factions there. A lot of the time they don’t really get a long.

              And so it is with the US. The people here are struggling to get organized, and I still point to the massive far-right propaganda machine that dominates social media and television viewership that is telling us that our marginalized groups are the cause of all their woes. I want to believe we’re smartening up what with rising prices and illegal wars and the blatant corruption of the political and ownership classes. But much effort has gone into keeping the common white American really ignorant and stupid.

              I think they’re going to try to do it with a large human paramilitary force, such as with ICE, and with the help of the surveillance state. For now they’re coming for the immigrants. Then the disabled. And then the protestors and then the Democrats.

              I really hope we catch on before it’s too late.

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            If those people are provided for by their community and able to live a stable life within it, why would they ever accept a position to harm that community and disenfranchise it of its resources?

            For them to be hired they must first be destitute enough to consider abandoning their solidarity for the possibility of stability.

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            I used the AK47 knowing it would bait gun nerds.

            There is a reason the AK47 is a symbol of revolution for those that dare to resist imperialism. The AK47 is significantly more reliable and easier to maintain than either of those weapons. In guerilla warfare it is far far superior to either of those weapons. The AK47 keeps firing when it’s covered in dirt. The same cannot be said of the M-16 or M-4.

            You’re essentially saying that reaper drones are superior to the Shahed drones. Yes. On paper. But it’s not about one weapon going head to head with another. It’s about what is actually best for winning the fight.

            Iran has proven that high maintenance and high tolerance weapons with massive firepower and features will quickly become inferior to the easy to manufacture Shaheds that are essentially flying on a lawn mower engine.

            Not to mention the countless resistance forces that defeated the American military with the AK47 as its flagship weapon of combat.

            Edit: Shahed not shaded. Autocorrect.

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              Sure it depends on what the conflict is, who’s fighting it, what the logistics and infrastructure looks like, etc. As a symbol, sure AK47. However in reference to America in this thread, actually an AR-15 type rifle would probably be the best symbol.

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                Absolutely. Definitely less AK47s in the US sitting around. I just knew a gun nerd would come along and I appreciate the conversation.

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        Anything can be a weapon if you have enough imagination… including bananas.