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    24 days ago

    People are generally shackled by societal norms, and we’re not at a critical point were enough people are willing to break them en masse.

    It’s like being asked “are you carrying anything that could possibly be used as a weapon?” at an airport.

    • I’ve got my shoes I could do the old W. Bush with
    • Laces and backpack straps for choking
    • Belt for whipping
    • Laptops for blunt force trauma with a battery inside containing as much potential energy as a hand grenade
    • Battery backup
    • Screwdriver set
    • Knitting needles
    • Hell you could even break into a janitors closet in the terminal and get access to fun chemicals

    When it comes to dealing with an occupying army in your streets:

    • We’ve been told since a young age not to mix ammonia and bleach, but those are things you could just buy and they conveniently fit in water balloons
    • You can also just buy hydrochloric acid from Homedepot
    • Caltrops are easy to make, though you could also just slash tires directly
    • You can also just buy gasoline and polystyrene
    • Water electrolysis with table salt will yield an extremely explosive gas and chlorine gas
    • Saw dust in a sealed container with a lit cigarette and a small air pump
    • wax coated metallic sodium suspended above a glass of water on the dash of a car filled with vaporous gasoline outside a rally
    • Not to mention guns, yeah they’re armed too, but for most interactions you’d only need like 20 people
    • Cut rail ties or weld some rebar across them

    Basically anytime you’ve seen a warning not to do something, you could kinda just do what it says not to do.


    My goal here is to highlight the absurdity of the current situation: relative stability of the middle class predicated on the assumption that people lack the means of resistance. It’s not to provide a detailed how to (as this shit is literally highschool textbook chemistry). Adventurism will not get us anywhere, though it will get you killed.