Of course, if you're taking up arms to resist/overthrow a government, then you should be entirely anticipating that the government will shoot back. Or shoot first.

If protest is approaching/crossing the line into insurgency, people need to seriously consider that they may be putting their life on the line. It's not a game.

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awesome_dude 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm pretty sure that if people are taking up arms to resist their government, things have already gone far enough down that path that they feel their lives are in jeopardy.

Just this week there were [~~Catholic~~] PRIESTS who were advised to draw up their last will and testament if they were going to resist [~~ICE in Minneapolis~~] the government https://www.npr.org/2026/01/18/nx-s1-5678579/ice-clashes-new...

How can you think it's a "game'?

Edit - removed incorrect quantifiers

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dragonwriter 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Just this week there were Catholic PRIESTS who were advised to draw up their last will and testament if they were going to resist ICE in Minneapolis

Episcopal (the US branch of the Anglican Communion), not Catholic, and it wasn't conditioned on going to Minneapolis, it was a statement about the broad situation of the country and the times we are in and what was necessary for them, with events in Minneapolis as a signifier, but not a geographically isolated, contained condition.

	▲	awesome_dude 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for the feedback, you're right and I've (tried) to mark the incorrect stuff with what markdown would show as strikethroughs)

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bluescrn 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> How can you think it's a "game'?

Everything seems fueled by social media radicalisation, and the social media side of things is very much 'gameified', all about scoring likes/upvotes/followers (and earning real revenue) for pushing escalating outrage.

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awesome_dude 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Which is VERY different to the discussion at hand.

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SV_BubbleTime 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Is it?

Good’s wife after yelling DRIVE BABY, DRIVE DRIVE and the fallout screamed at agents “Why are you using real bullets!”

These people seem to have thought it was a game.

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awesome_dude 2 hours ago | parent [-]

She was unarmed when she was killed.

	▲	bluescrn 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A vehicle can be just as deadly as a firearm. And vehicles had previously been used aggressively by the protestors. There were claims (no idea if true) that the agent who fired the fatal shots had been dragged down the road and injured in a previous vehicle-based altercation.
	▲	SV_BubbleTime an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Every police agency and training in the world will clearly explain that a vehicle is absolutely considered a weapon. A single rental truck in Nice France killed more people than any mass shooting in the USA, ever.