• Shaggy0291OP
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    10 months ago

    This was my thought too. 70,000 personnel ain’t shit when you consider London alone is a city of 9 million people. If just 1 out of 9 people got on the streets in London then the entire armed forces would be outnumbered by a factor of more than 10:1.

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      10 months ago

      Exactly, if people in UK start rioting it would descend into civil unrest very quickly with the regime not having any real ability to keep the lid on things.

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      10 months ago

      Problem is, 10 disorganised radlibs with rocks for 1 trained disciplined soldier with a gun is still an absolute win for the state

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        A bloodbath on the same scale as the Russian red Sunday would dramatically radicalise the public, especially if it took place in London. It would instantly become Britain’s 1905 moment.

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          Sure, it’s just sad that they’ll never just look at History and realise that this already happened countless times and that they should skip the “oh no the state is ruthless they’ve just killed 10 000 people” and directly go to the “we’re not letting this happen”