anyway while yes its true it would have been impossible for the US to adopt such measures in the current environment for a variety of reasons theres no reason to expect that constraint to hold forever in all cases
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so if your plan for revolution or resistance or whatever relies on guerilla warfare to bleed out an external force this might be worth considering
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Revolutionaries enjoy the privilege of turning every massacre into a media event and every act of mercy into an infiltration opportunity
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Replying to @PrinceVogel
yes but that only matters if their opponent cares about media optics
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Everybody cares about media optics, you'd have to reverse the trend of globalization and more to change that
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Replying to @PrinceVogel
what if my media optics are "were killing all of these people (and thats good)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
That's so rarely true. Even the Nazis were obscuring the Holocaust before the end of the war was obvious. It takes a lot for people to go full Mongol or Pol Pot these days - humanism has sunk in everywhere
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Replying to @PrinceVogel @eigenrobot
The background rate of mass death due to state failures is about to change bigtime, though
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Replying to @taalumot @eigenrobot
That may well be true, but I sincerely believe most people just don't have the stomach for truly organized massacres anymore. Starvation and disease can still kill a lot of people
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Replying to @PrinceVogel @eigenrobot
What I was too-subtly implying is that a broad-based, psychologically necessary inurement against horror at mass death might be about to take place. And a corresponding desperation among those with better survival prospects.
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could just automate slaughter with killdrones and come in later to clean up
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Replying to @eigenrobot @PrinceVogel
there you go. humanism with terminator characteristics
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