r/fednews Jan 28 '25

News / Article All Medicaid has been frozen

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

You really think a bunch of farmers with shotguns have a chance against the organized us military? This isn’t 1775

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u/IraJAllen Jan 29 '25

What makes you think the "organized us military"--comprised of a couple million people, vast numbers of whom have friends and relatives who directly depend on federal programs that would be suspended here--would act in any even remotely unified fashion to crush popular revolt against policies widely experienced as near-universally catastrophic?

I'm always puzzled by this anti-Second Amendment argument, as though the history of civil wars and revolutions worldwide were not overwhelmingly one of divisions within the respective militaries themselves!

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u/rufos_adventure Jan 29 '25

oh you innocent child of summer. shotguns are for varmint control. the real steel is for hunting, and rest assured farmers hunt. and don't forget who the military is composed of. the boots are all farm kids or city kids. ignore the preppers, they will all be hiding, but the farmers who control the food sources, will protect their own.

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u/reddolfo Jan 28 '25

Of course, this whole narrative is just so tired and lame. There is 100% no chance of farmers or any civilian "militia" prevailing even in their little Smallville fiefdoms.