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It’s called insurgency. A good example of what would occur is what happened in Iraq. Iraq is a very high gun ownership rate country and what happened after the 2003 invasion is what would happen in the USA if a civil war happened here. I apologize for using the word ‘happen’ too much lol.
Yes, but it's more than that. The idea of an armed populace is supposed to be that the threat posed by the armed citizens precents the need for insurgencies in the first place. But in the US it isn't working because Democratic voters disarmed themselves while Republican voters armed themselves to the teeth.
The mass surveillance and tracking that is currently being implemented are to neutralize the threat of an armed populace; it's to protect the rich ruling class.
It won't work. If it comes to armed resistance, those cameras are coming down fast. People on both sides of the political spectrum hate them.
They will keep putting them up. They will start to hide them. They will be built into traffic lights and hidden in other things. And they will crack down harder on those that take them down. They will run campaigns that appeal to a sense of safety and label those that oppose terrorists.
And it really doesn't matter what the voters on both sides of the aisle want, we have a parliament of whores that does the bidding of corporate interest and the ruling class. It's been that way on both sides of the aisle for a long time. Politicians have no problem deciding against the will of their constituents. Go look at the Louis Rossman coverage of 3d printing surveillance for one example of this.
It's not a coincidence that age ID surveillance laws, 3d printing surveillance software, flock style camera surveillance networks are all being implemented right now. And massive AI datacenters to track and flag everything. One CEO gets killed and the next thing you know, systems are put into place to make sure it will never happen again, that there can be no uprising.
Our only hope is to do what they are afraid of before these systems are in place and fully operating. Because once in place, we have little to no hope in correcting.
specifically democrats, sjws, POCs, trans, and women.
That's because they don't really need to worry about conservatives resisting. They are morons and all too happy to doublethink and believe whatever ridiculous narrative the ruling class feeds them. They are too worried about a brown guy crossing the border and eating their pet or a trans girl using the "incorrect" bathroom to know what's actually going wrong with this country.
They will run campaigns focusing on crime and safety. They will fear monger and counterfeit crime from people they don't like, they will label anyone that opposes the safety and security the cameras offer as terrorists. And the dumbass conservatives will fall in line like they always do and support those narratives.