Political Memes

Violence against the state? My word, that’s illegal and therefore bad. Violence committed by the state, however, is very legal and very cool. 

> we start organizing

> tuned the fuck out for decades

If you’re just now getting started with pacifistic resistance at the point where reporters, peaceful protesters, and members of the “opposition” party are each being arrested and shot, then peaceful opposition faces the same recourse as violent opposition so it’s best to just use the option that will actually stop some, if not all, oppressors. We’re also at the point where literal and direct calls for freedom itself are being criminalized as exemptions to free speech. The general cause in the US has been going since the country’s inception; if somebody’s not tuned in by this point, don’t hold your breath waiting for them to tune in before they believe it’s their own neck on the line.

> the last third

The state is already actively deporting, detaining, disarming, and ultimately decimating this opposition third. If there is no stoppage soon, numbers and means of exerting opposition will dwindle to a band of radicals too small and unarmed to effectively harm the state. The people remaining either won’t speak out due to fear of facing the same consequences of dissidence or they’ll think that they’re good and safe for cheering for the state. 

Sympathy cannot be garnered from outside forces if they can miss hearing of and thinking about the instances and forms of oppression to begin with. The message against oppression would have to be clear and impossible for the media to avoid, and peaceful protests are both often ignored by those going on their own day unbothered and often represented on the news in a way that is neither accurate nor thorough.

Heaven forbid the opposition third quickly forms a covert and well-armed rebel group which utilizes strategy, stealth, and weaponry to reduce the numbers and armament of the oppressors and stunt their growth of power while the majority of the opposition third operates as a pacifistic front, ultimately leading to an eventual recapturing of the state by force in a coup that the majority of people now supports due to seeing the rebel group’s showy acts which unavoidably display the horrors of the previous state. That would just be terrible! If we’re lucky, the oppressive state will act fast enough to keep us safe from this peril by getting rid of such means of ever overcoming them by means of violent force and allow us to wallow in our peaceful protests that we can’t actually voice, report on, or pass legislation for without being shot or arrested.

Hey how much would it hurt if a dummy rocket propelled grenade hit you in the chest at launch velocity?

Probably a lot, you think? Like maybe a fatal amount?

I suspect that even at muzzle velocity that round would punch an RPG shaped hole through this dudes chest, cook his ass as it exited, and arm on the other side.

Handguns shoot around 800 to 1300 fps, an rpg is apparently 300fps, even without arming and from a few feet away I imagine its like having a brick launched into your face.

Wouldn’t it be better to attack their weaknesses?

Yes elaborate? I’m curious to find the path to success here