Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.
mrdown@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoHistory shows the opposite the inaction is more costly than standing up against authoritarianism. It is going to become worse regardless if not stopped so better try and fail then fail and never try
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
It’s impossible to verify that through any objective lens, as every situation is unique and there’s no control group to compare it to. There’s no way to isolate variables, and any alternate timeline is merely hypothetical.
The French Resistance played an important role in WWII, but for most of the early war they were hiding out and keeping a low profile so they wouldn’t get steamrolled. Without Allied support, it wouldn’t have been enough.
Today, technology has advanced to the point where it would be next to impossible to keep an organized resistance of comparable size undetected as long as they managed to.
Any appeal to history is inapplicable because the advancement of modern technology and the resulting imbalance of military might is such that it has no historical analog.
mrdown@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
While limited violent confrotation by french resistance existed from the beginning. They was lucky that they have allied countries, they would still resist if help didn’t come. Unlike french resistance no countries will save oppresed americans unless trump Trump start world war 3. That the risky cost of inaction
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I think we’re in agreement there, if I understand you correctly.
However, the conclusion I draw from that us that it’s a riskier cost of a particular set of actions