Finally reversing that brain drain.
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No, literally no goal posts have ever been moved.
The point was and always has been, that widespread availability of guns does not effectively resist tyranny in the modern era, but does kill numerous people needlessly.
All you have shown, is a couple random examples of guns being used to take ineffective pot shots at governments that ultimately crush them.
You have provided literally not a single example of people successfully using personal firearms to resist government oppression, let alone at a scale that would justify the thousands and thousands and thousands of needless deaths.
You're just a gun lover blindly trying to justify a reason for owning them when one doesn't exist.
Old man yells at cloud isn't an age, it's a bitter mindset.
Oh so you're advocating for resisting in unproductive ways that don't accomplish your goals? Glad to get that out in the open.
Also, the Provisional IRA primarily used military weapons leftover from WW2, modern ones to the era smuggled in from Libya, and homemade IEDs, so not a particularly relevant example.
You're referring to the Provisional IRA?
Tell us again how successful they were in their goals of ending British rule in Northern Ireland.
Exactly, even if you had no front end language at all, and just requests to backend servers for static html and CSS content, those sites would still suck because they would ship the first shitty server that made them money out the door and not care that it got overloaded or was coded garbagely.
Yeah, did you read the examples you gave?
Your literal only modern example is a case in Fiji, an island with a population the size of Nashville, Tennessee, and army of 6,500 people.
And the coup was only successful because the special forces unit of the army that was run by a former SAS commander joined the coup and armed them.
I say this as someone who has been diagnosed with ADHD and who has a dad who says exactly the above, and who everyone in the family agrees almost certainly has undiagnosed ADHD.
I just think it's important to not dismiss the very real effects of smartphone usage and addiction. If you struggle with ADHD symptoms, then it's important to not dismiss and justify other factors that exacerbate them and make them even harder to deal with (especially when those factors are changeable, like reducing our social media and smartphone usage).
Honestly have to disagree pretty hard.
Our smartphone addiction really seems to exacerbate attention span issues and fucks with our reward systems.
Go for a few weeks or a month without using a smartphone to see the difference, or get an e-ink android phone to try and break the reward loop and see how you feel.
Like, start by outlining the effects of smartphone use and addiction, then lay those effects next to the symptoms of ADHD, and notice the significant overlap.
There are definitely a lot of undiagnosed parents who were forced to develop coping strategies and think their kids need to too in unhealthy ways, but there are also a lot of undiagnosed parents whose symptoms have gotten worse with smartphone use.
Personal firearms have basically never been used to resist government tyranny in the US or entire rest of the developed world in modern times.
What does consistently work is mass mobilization and turning out in numbers.
No, it really didn't benefit them in any meaningful way.
Widespread gun ownership has gotten an enormous number of innocent people killed though.
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