Riches and power somehow seem to exempt those affiliated with the murders, rape and violence that the Epstein files have shed some light on. In 1917, lead by the brave women of Petrograd, the Russian Revolution removed the tsar from his throne and in 1789 the French Revolution overthrew the king, albeit not the aristocracy. Why are there no mass arrests targeting the child murdering, sister raping, oppressive Epstein elite that deserve nothing less than to rot in a prison cell for the rest of their lives? Obviously, the police and military exist only to uphold laws that serve this very elite, which occasionally and incidentally happen to put a bandage on people’s sufferinft without curing the ailment called capitalism…
The military won’t last long if they kill their entire workforce. At best they can have a stalemate, where “they” win, but no longer have anyone to build their weapons and ammo anymore.
They’d be killing their own relatives and neighbors. Pretty hard to run a society that is decimated. Eventually even those in power realize how off the rails it is. If the military is heavily made of draftees it is more likely they’d refuse such orders.
They don’t need to kill the entire workforce. People generally don’t want to die, so you only need to kill a small fraction to terrorize the rest into submitting.
This has worked for pretty much every single uprising since WW2. Just send in the tanks. Only when the military refused were uprisings successful.
Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Myanmar disagree with you
True. I should’ve added: “Without significant foreign support”.
Like no shit, if neighboring countries provides weapons, training and even manpower then it’s hardly considered an uprising, is it? More like a proxy war.
That covers Vietnam, Cambodia and Syria. The latter was literally just a gigantic proxy war. Like look at this shit, this is not a popular uprising:
Don’t know enough about Iraq, but in Afghanistan the military did jack shit against the Taliban and in Myanmar the military was the one rebelling.
Every single uprising hinged on:
None of them depended on the popular opinion of civilians.
When the military starts killing its own citizens it also galvanizes the population. It’s going to cause massive unrest even if they “win.”
East Germany 1953, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, China 1989.
It does not cause any long-lasting unrest. Crushing protests with tanks is extremely effective and has always worked if the military was called upon and willing.
That’s a big IF for the military being willing. They are a huge chunk of the budget and that would be a PR nightmare and jeopardize their generally positive public perception
What outsiders don’t understand is that Americans are raised on tales of revolution, overthrowing the mightiest military on the face of the Earth. Once we start a revolution, it will never end until it succeeds.
In most countries, what happens in the capitol decides it. If there’s a massive protest, and tanks crush it, then it’s over. But if tanks crush the massive protest in DC, it will just cause larger, more violent protests in NYC, Chicago, LA, and EVERY OTHER CITY IN AMERICA. The moment that MAGA orders the military to fire on protesting American citizens, every MAGA politician’s life goes on a very short clock, and every government building will burn. They will all be dead within a month.
Americans have been socialized to be kind and empathetic, and even be polite to MAGA, who are the worst people on the planet, so we’re obeying the rules, and trying to get through this with our elections.
But it is a very bad idea to mistake kindness for weakness. If MAGA pushes people like that over the line, past their breaking point, the backlash is going to be far more severe than they expect.
Remember when Trump said that nobody expected Iran to fire back? Yes they did, and we all told him they would. But he ignored everybody’s advice, and was surprised at the obvious result. When he fires on American citizens (and he will fire on American citizens, it’s as inevitable as starting a war always was), he’s going to be very surprised when we punch back, and start killing all of his accomplices.
There’s about a 50-50 chance this ends with a French Revolution-style party, and just yesterday Trump said he didn’t care if people can’t afford gas. That was his “Let Them Eat Cake” moment, but he is too virtuosically ignorant to understand where that leads.