I'm really, really hoping a lot of folks see that comment. Online communities are rife with intelligence agents actively trying to sway online discourse.
There's a term in intelligence work for people who fight or support a cause they don't fully understand: useful idiots. Anyone reading this, take a hard look at the facts of any situation. Do everything you can to cut down to the actual truth wherever possible. Make up your own mind. Don't be a useful idiot.
Hezbollah operates with pagers and walkie talkies for OPSEC reasons. Israel has been intercepting them and placing small explosives in them for God only knows how long.
This week they set a fucking ton of them off, injuring a couple thousand people and killing 8, with quite a few bystanders getting hit. Just today there was a funeral for a Hezbollah member who got killed and all the walkie talkies at the event blew up.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Lemmy is an anus of a platform filled with lunatics.
I'm not entirely certain you're thinking straight. You're coming off a little unhinged.
Age and maturity are not the same thing.
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
And that's an overwhelmingly good thing. The nut jobs and extremists are looking for an excuse to start shit but (as you correctly stated) lack the resolve to finish shit. They want to do a little political violence to feel enfranchised and like they have some control, but they're not ready to give up everything for a cause. This makes them particularly dangerous.
The real bulwark against government fuckery is the people you don't hear about: normal folks who happen to have guns. It would take actual, serious grievances against large swathes of the population to make them do something. Because that much larger (and more ideologically diverse) cohort isn't champing at the but for a fight they haven't lied to themselves about being able to maintain a normal life and therefore wouldn't start one lightly. That's pretty boring, so you only hear about the weirdos.
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