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  • Baku@aussie.zoneOP
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I don’t really have much sympathy or pity for the vast majority of America at the moment. I do feel a bit bad for Mexico, Canada, and South America, I reckon they’ll have a pretty tough time of it, and Mexico is certainly going to be demonized at every turn for the next ~4 years at minimum. But as for the people within America, they did choose this. They had the option to vote for the other candidate without fear of persecution or reprisal. I’d certainly have pity if he just marched in, seized control of the country, and started executing his opponents

    Also, after what seems like every American on the internet since the advent of the internet has taken every opportunity to bang their chest and yell about how great America is like some sort of political gorilla, I must admit I will be having a chuckle as their country degrades even further and all the idiots that either couldn’t be arsed going and voting, or actively voted for him begin to suffer more and more

    (Plus, they’ve so staunchly defended their right to own firearms for so long now, it’s not like they’re defenseless lol. If half the bloody country owns a gun, I don’t see what some walls and a couple dozen people in suits are going to be able to do about a large scale rebellion 🤷‍♂️)

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, that’s a fair point, and probably the only group of people I do have some sympathy for. And the people being held in those illegal immigration detention centre things, I imagine they’ll have an even tougher time of it than they currently do

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      1 year ago

      A military automatic rifle is useless against the training, intelligence, and equipment of the American defence forces.

      but they be can be used to snipe every single corrupt mayor and police chief

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        1 year ago

        Gotta remember that people in the military are still people. They’re affected by his shit, too

        All of their “training” does mean they would likely need to become considerably more pissed off in order to actually do anything, but it’s still a possibility at the end of the day

        Also, with enough people, you can defeat anyone. 330m people in America, only 2 million of those are in the military. Maybe throw in another 2 million for police and secret service people. Seems easily doable