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If an 18th century army ever tries to invade the country again, the US is well prepared thanks to the second amendment.
Nah, the army would win. We have a bunch of individuals with firearms that practice using them on the range or maybe hunting. That's a far cry from opposing an actual military. Sure the tech outpaces the army's but most people are just going to hide in their houses. The rest will be seen coming and when martial law is enacted and they go house to house seizing guns, it'll be over. It's not like they can't learn how to use modern weaponry. Most people vastly underestimate discipline and organization.
This assumes there is no modern military for this premise.
For the first few battles.
After that the survivors will figure out how to fight an insurgency
That’s like a right wing doomsday prepper fantasy. Them and their arsenal against a mob of whoever trying to take their stuff.
But they always stop before the end where they get killed anyway. Only so many bullets and starving people with nothing to lose aren’t giving up.
I laughed because you are right, but you're heavily discounting the fact that most people would cowtow immediately if they thought they could get the slightest bit of protection.
wolverines!
Only two survived the event (1984) version. Man, that film didn’t age well. The Chinese were our allies, Nicaragua and Cuba I think were part of the attackers. Russia is still an enemy, though.
A single guy or small unit with hand-held weapons would be obliterated by artillery as soon as the army figured out which general area the shots are coming from.
Cannons have been around since the 12th century.
But they're also great at destroying buildings and shit, between these and some trebuchets and stuff they could really do a number on an area then move in with the troops, they also had no issues just throwing bodies at the problem. Anyway I was just pointing out the technicality around the term artillery.
First off, if that dude stayed still, just take cover.
Secondly, they had CANNONS in the 1800s. Do you know the effective range of a modern semiautomatic rifle? Effective ranges would be around 300 meters.
Some "couch surfer" who can barely hold a rifle wouldn't hit shit over 150m.
And again, if they just sat in the same spot, even muskets could take him down.
Goddamn American fantasies. Get better fantasies.
We’re prepared to give up the pretense of democracy.
It seems like people are just ready to give up on civilization. Return to monke, I guess. Perhaps A.I. will go to the stars in our stead.
The exploding spaceships isn't really a problem. That's kind of the intention of the testing process. The way NASA does things, where everything is meticulously tested and nothing can fail ever, works, but it's slower and more expensive. Destructive testing is faster, and has the benefit of possibly revealing failure modes you didn't forsee.
for war, probably
Always prepared to support and send money to israel
Not much if anything at all. We have to keep us safe now.
That was the big takeaway I got from COVID.
No one's going to protect me from other people's carelessness but me.
Also if there every really is an apocalypse, I don't want to live through it. :D