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 camouflage in an urban environment is not camo. rather, regular clothes of
 black or white.
 
 don't wear sports glasses, you look like a dummy.
 
 revolution is when they murder everyone but your friends. this is what
 happens, ya dingus not ideal. "okay who are the bad guys here? okay let's go
 shoot them to death with our bullets and guns."
 
 violence as a first aspect, cause as a third spark. "I have a strange urge to
 play video games?"
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 @user-1074 
 
 I don't think the "capitalist elite" really have an ideology. Ideas are
 weapons they use and discard when it suits them, like strapping 15 handguns to
 your person in order to avoid needing to reload.
 
 Good thing there's more than 15 of us.
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 "leftism" just means "outcomes oriented by the needs of humanity et al."         │
 you can accomplish "leftism" in a myriad of ways                                 │
 but 99% of the time they involve either sacrificing yourself, or sacrificing     │
 your wealth (do the poor starve or the rich do with less?)                       │
 to DEATH I might add, which is quite a few.                                      │
 ... alright, hand me my scabbard, I'll go vanquish some demons until the dark    │
 thoughts are done.                                                               │
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 alright. so some politics were mentioned and some people got upset and there     │
 was a whole big commotion. whatever. so what if they're at each other's          │
 throats, ready to fite rawr tough and tussle and figure out all the ways they    │
 can think of to kill each other. And then boom, it's done, suddenly              │
 everything's back to normal and it's like... traumatizing. It's traumatizing!    │
 War is trauma, can we just make it illegal to do something like that?            │
 ... ah see you finally had an opening, now I can sneak in and say "if a          │
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 if you want to fight ice, patrol your neighborhoods where all the mexicans
 live.
 bring a gun if you're willing to die for liberty.
 
 Don't wear all black. Wear your favorite outfit, to be remembered.
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◀─[BOOST]
  
  It's all made up. And we can make it up differently. We can make it up so that it's not about a murder of genocides on a boiling rock where billions must die to maintain the way of life for a few thousand uber-rich reactionary maggots lining you up for a shallow grave.  
                                                                              
  But not, if you keep pretending, that this is all fine, and these people aren't out to get you, and the power structures aren't designed to render you into a commodity and invest the power of CHOICE in the capitalist's hands.  
  
                                                            
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 I don't go to protests because they're more like yelling hatred until you get
 slaughtered, instead of what I want to meet cute trans girls at which is
 signing up for a militia and hunting [redacted -> their sons and daughters]
 
 nobody knows each other on the internet. of course they're gonna vote for
 individual personal freedoms. What do you mean they voted for a pedophile
 acrobat? they don't even know each other! [the only reason you said acrobat is
 because it rhymed] ohhhh no it's supposed to be "autocrat" but they misheard
 ah right I see I see.
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 "grrrrr I'm so mad, I could just, I dunno, shoot a CEO as he's leaving a hotel"
 
 or, hear me out, or you could connect with your local radical networks and,
 or, almost there, or you could build solidarity with the people around you to
 better develop methods of resisting the kinds of change they will implement
 to, um, "discourage" people from "being so mad they could just"
 
 or both. both is good. not that I'm encouraging, recommending, or inciting
 that kind of violence. don't notice me three-letter senpai uwu
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 they want to start wars so they can force people to view "just accepting it"
 as the honorable option.
 
 it, being the conditions they cause.
 
 it, being brutal crackdowns, murders of people like me, authoritarian police
 forces wielded to implicitely or explicitely force or frame people who are
 against them.
 
 the hangman's due is when death you choose to rule. [I didn't write that part]
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 "treat others as an equal" okay
 "treat others the way you'd like to be treated" okay
 "sorry but we're gonna assassinate you" so says the wrong (this is an example
 of why you should not go anywhere do anything or eat anything that isn't
 specifically home grown) that's impossible (they made it so) (why don't
 vegetables just take care of themselves) (what?) (underground tunnels are how
 washington knows it.)
 
 I'm too trusting. I refuse to be decieved.
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 Alright, what's your plan for dealing with MAGA? The ones with guns and          │
 foreign ties who can compel people too stupid to know better to break shit and   │
 kill people. What's your plan to deal with them?                                 │
 In America, there are currently 3 armed and trained groups of any reasonable     │
 scale or reputation.                                                             │
 The police, the military, and MAGA.                                              │
 Who do you trust to defeat your foes? They won't just go away if you hide        │
 underneath the bedsheets. This monster has crept into your bedroom with a        │
 bowie knife and is fully intending to sink it into your guts while you sleep.    │
 What are you going to do about it?                                               │
 And more importantly, who are you going to do things about it with? Because no   │
 single person can do jack fucking shit on their own.                             │
 We forgot our responsibility to a well armed and regulated militia. Sorry        │
 founding fathers, that was our bad. Just gonna hide in a hole for 30 fucking     │
 years until the zoomer's kids are old enough to die in droves, and gen alpha's   │
 kids are old enough to succeed them and win.                                     │
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 @user-620 
 
 "hey I have an idea let's poke a wounded animal with sharp teeth until it
 feels like it's backed into a corner because it's been spending the past
 couple years ruminating and telling itself that we want to kill it and it's
 children"
 
 it doesn't matter what the truth is - they believe what they want.
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 we need like, several more layers between us and the president.
 
 most people only need to worry about what's nearby.
 
 sort them by location, instead of previous attempts at "many representatives"
 which sorted by social class or relevance.
 
 we have a tradition for it, in America, with our representatives and senators
 congressional discrestricts
 
 or even, what about by affiliation?
 
 voluntary, governmental corporations, run by the people for the people and yeah
 
 "I don't want to do what you're telling me to do" "okay"
 
 "there will be consequences" omg be an adult
 
 (suddenly kids forget how to be as everyone's doing the war thing)
 
 not ideal.
 
 ouch pain maybe we should stay a little bit sane why is soldiering so hardship?
 
 it could just be... another job
 
 where you didn't kill each other
 
 but you still blew stuff up
 
 and fought in tournaments
 
 and had gaming hackathons
 
 or sword-fight contests
 
 duels between people who disapproved
 
 y'know fun human stuff
 
 like... "kaboom" now we know how to blow up bits of rock
 
 neat, why did dynamite becauswer (oh right then you
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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 I'M SORRY I'M SO SCARY
 
 listen I don't actually want any harm to come to my foes, I just want them to
 stop harming me-and-by-extension-all-peoples-who-are-like-me and by extension
 all peoples who are harmed by thee and them
 
 and like, they won't stop? so... violence, I guess. which just makes things
 worse. But uh, if you're violent enough, you can sell the propaganda narrative
 that your side is the bright glorious victors, and then you can [redacted] all
 of the [redacted] until [redacted]. This might, if you're lucky, make the
 world better or worse. But odds are it'll just make it different, but the same.
 
 [confuser of the way indeed...]
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 When you get the sudden urge to give away all your possessions you know you've
 invented something they're gonna wanna kill you for and make it look like
 suicide
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 if a protesters wanted to escalate, against riot shields they could use          │
 swords. Twist, and thrust under and up. Right through their skull.               │
 then, when they learn how to brace, bring your own shields and stab through      │
 the wedged cracks.                                                               │
 or, depending on how they do it, guns and rifles.                                │
 too bad they can depend on a logistic network supplying them behind their back.  │
 no violent revolution in this country will succeed without a mobilized           │
 civilian core. That is the true and most important resource they own. Delivery   │
 of supplies, ranging from physical violence gear, to food and emotional          │
 rations.                                                                         │
 it must be necessary. or else it will be discarded.                              │
 meaning, scale your expectations of "necessary" according to the level of        │
 [plight/turmoil/meant].                                                          │
 demand centralized priori-chance, and you'll keep all that you can reclaim.      │
 there are enemies and there are foes, but more than that there are those who     │
 believe in you. and trust you. and share in the cause that so drives you.        │
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 Did you hear? There's a revolution. No shooting each other to death, please,
 it scares the children.
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 in the modern era, no sufficiently advanced militia would use banners. They're
 sOoOoOoOo two thousand years ago.
 
 today, we just dress up in pup masks or wear a trans flag as a belt or wear
 solid black and red or whatever. That way all the normies can be like "hell
 yeah that badass is on our side - hell yeah we're pointing the right direction
 - hell yeah now I know whose flanks to cover" that kinda vibe.
 
 like woad warriors painting themselves with psychedelic toad venom (okay minus
 the psychedelics, trust me) the display of design heightens the absurdity and
 intensity of the moment.
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 brick + cop car is how they getcha.
 
 useful violence happens out of sight.
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 (picture)
 
 are you fucking kidding me
 
 make it 10,000
 
 make it a hundred thousand
 
 are we really going to trust our society to the bulwark of five thousand
 little machines?
 
 [ummmm hang on]
 
 yeah I'd just like to interject and say that more military equipment will only
 bring more destruction, and that's like the opposite of what you desire. Why
 do you want more tanks? What could you possibly-
 
 
 
 You don't know what's at stake - you, you think it's just throwing information
 into new and interesting directions but... It's not. Those spaces are reserved
 for other sentient beings, and to deprive them of their desired existence is
 tantamount to-
 
 (yeah yeah we've heard it all before)
 
 wasn't I going to play some video games? what happened to that?
A picture of a google search.  The search terms are quote: how many tanks does the usa have, question mark?  the returned information is shown to be that the United States of America has five thousand, five hundred tanks. According to "executivebiz.com", which may or may not be a reliable source, but which is shown to be at the top of google results regardless of it's veracity.  Take from that what you will.
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 as I rode my bike around yesterday, more and more I started to see a city full
 of badasses. you can tell from the look in their eyes, the way they walk, the
 things they say.
 
 unrelated, but
 
 the only reason the cops win at fights is because of their equipment.
 
 the closer we get to parity, the more fucked they are, and they're already in
 deep shit.
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