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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yesss!!! Wiley Coyote those pathetic degenerates.

I know these dumb fucks think that once it all falls, they get to live like kings, but the truth is to the administration they serve they're easily replaceable collateral damage. There is a really good reason it's in all of our interests (even theirs sadly) to "fight" back like this and defend ourselves and our neighbors with nonviolent means for as long as possible. When they try to goad people to just go ahead and fight fire with fire, they are trying to bring us closer to the day their civil war finally kicks off.

I understand being told to use your brain over brawn to fight back against the terrorists who are invading your homes, hurting and killing your neighbors, and betraying the United States, is frustrating to say the least, but you're delaying the civil war this administration so desperately needs to seal their position of power.

Why do you think it is that Trump keeps threatening to declare the insurrection act in response to the Wiley Coyote protest tactics instead of just doing it? Why does he need anyone to make his barely literate small army of Nazis into the victims on a public stage, before he sends in the actual military?

Why not just declare an insurrection now if he's really so concerned about these alleged "threats" American citizens pose to these ICE agents who are armed to the teeth?

Fuck, let's just be real about what happens when he finally does send in the real military. Or at least when the civil war kicks off. Let's just all acknowledge the elephant in the room, and what we know is the truth about what happens when he finally starts using whatever it is he's contracted the military and Palantir to build. What happens when he orders the military to punish anyone who dares to dissent in what he's already been very clear to the public are "war zones"?

Palantir is rolling out its first two artificial intelligence-enabled systems to the U.S. Army, ...The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node systems, or TITAN, act as a mobile ground station that harness AI to collect data from space sensors to assist soldiers with warfare strategy and improve strike targeting and accuracy, according to Palantir.

There's a very slim chance any civilian uprising wouldn't be immediately suppressed even if they just went ahead and used the tools we know for a fact already exists. We don't stand a chance. We all saw what they did in Gaza. What they did to those scientists in Iran. What they did to those fishermen in Venezuela, or that 80 year old lady sleeping in an apartment building nearby. (She really shouldn't have been in the way of their "intended" target.) All it takes is the push of a button.

It's the same thing they've done countless times already to people all over the world. I could go on and on, but why bother? The point is, the "threat" that these "dangerous and dissenting" American civilians pose, could be taken care of real quick, just like the "dangerous and dissenting" people who came before us in other countries. Men, women, children, really doesn't matter. None of us are safe. Anyone that dares to be a little too free, or winds up in the general vicinity of somebody else who was being a little too free, or gets incorrectly tagged by AI as a citizen that was being too free while wearing the same or similar shirt, or driving the same or similar car, should really know better by now.

Especially since Palantir has made it possible to carry out an almost fully automated war, with the help of a button pusher (for safety reasons, obviously). ẞs

As one button pusher explained, automation makes it easier to do the things a human might have otherwise hesitated to do...

One Israeli intelligence source noted exactly that – “the machine did it coldly”, without the compunction a human might have (Abraham 2024).

That means that even if there are legitimately good soldiers who are willing to refuse the illegal orders given to them, it won't matter. When the time comes, they only need to find the one who is willing to push the button for them, to seal the fate of this country. It doesn't matter if they do it with glee or force themselves to believe they didn't do anything wrong by simply following orders and pushing a button.

So, when Trump finally does declare an insurrection, do you honestly think they'll even bother to send the real military in person to fight the American people? Do you think they'll send an actual army into the streets of these "War Zone" cities to stand shoulder to shoulder with ICE agents? Fighting alongside those who always desperately wanted to abuse the authority that a career in the military or law enforcement would have granted them, but didn't qualify?

Or do you think they'll just have somebody push a button from the safety of somewhere hundreds or thousands of miles away?

If ICE hadn't already murdered and harmed so many innocent people, I might actually feel kinda bad that most of them are so caught up getting to live out their fantasies like they're in Westworld, and having the time of their lives getting to murder and terrorize Americans without any fear of the repercussions, they don't have any burdensome thoughts in their empty heads about what really comes next.

It's almost sad they have no idea. They don't even fucking suspect that they're a decoy meant to be used as the cannon fodder that kicks off the real war. They keep asking us haven't we "learned anything after what happened to Renee Good?" At least most civilians seem to actually have some understanding of reality, and the role we play in all of this.

More than 33,000 Palestinians were killed in just six months (McKernan & Davies 2024). In late 2024, the UN verified that nearly 70% of those killed were women and children (Farge 2024). AOAV’s data on civilian harm following explosive weapon use in Gaza puts that percentile even higher. Evidence recorded in the classified Israeli military database in May 2025 revealed that only 17% of the 53,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza were combatants. This implies that 83% were civilians (Graham-Harrison & Abraham 2025).

Who knows maybe AI will know to spare the Nazis when the administration starts dropping bombs on American "war zones."