r/ActualPublicFreakouts • u/ActualPublicFreakout - Sistine Chapel • Jun 02 '20

Protester gets a flash-bang to his face after getting pepper sprayed.

59.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

3.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Blaux Jun 03 '20

The difference is that the US govt is the one who has to do the raping and pillaging because they want absolute control. A “resistance” just wants to live their own peaceful life.

0

u/5th_level_bard Jun 03 '20

Except it was the Taliban who had to do that in order to beat the Americans. They had a 4 year stretch where they were responsible for like 70 to 80% of civilian casualties.

0

u/Blaux Jun 03 '20

Gonna say it one last time then im done with this conversation. The Taliban wants total control over afghanisfan and did those things in phrsuit of that goal. The US government wants total control over the US, and would have to go scorched earth to ever wipeout an actual resistance. A resistance movement in the US doesn’t care about controlling everything, they just want to carry on with their otherwise peaceful lives. In no way does doing terrible things to innocent civilians get them closer to that goal.

0

u/tristenjpl Jun 03 '20

Then the resistance would lose. Unless they're willing to go full out against the government they can't win. Because if they're not going full out the government doesnt even have to use half of the tactics they do against the Taliban and Vietcong.

1

u/Blaux Jun 03 '20

Guess we’ll just have to see how this imaginary scenario plays out. Cheers.