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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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After sonic/microwave attack in Serbia, you need to take headphones and a physical barrier to shelter behind, I dunno, an umbrella backed with tinfoil? One of those foil emergency blankets?
People said they could feel their eyes vibrating, I wonder how effective headphones would actually be.
What's scary to think is that whatever it is, it's probably flirting with the threshold of very serious harm on a large scale. Imagine all the literal skeletons in the development process for this.
Whole thing seemed more of a weapons test/advert than an actual interest in crowd dispersal too. That wasn't an unruly crowd they used it on.
Absolutely no help at all.
how about stay away from crowds? one of these days, you're all going to be cattle led to the slaughter. a much wiser strategy would be to act in squads, spread out, and targeting things that actually throw a monkey wrench in the system.
The problem is that, in D&D terms, you lose action economy that way. A thousand rats might only deal one damage each but all of them at once would obliterate even hardened adventurers.
If people split into groups then yea, the police and whatever would need to prioritize, but the groups could also be handled more safely. Two or three VERY LARGE crowds would be great, but “squads” of even twenty people, against a militarized force, would just be easy pickings. And it’s an exponential loss(just as much as adding people is an exponential gain) so it would be incredibly risky.
D&D rules are an abstraction. please don't plan a revolution based on a fantasy RPG.
If you can’t figure out what I’m talking about and how someone can use familiar ideas to make an explanation more approachable then maybe more complex strategy isn’t your thing.
“Going out in squads” would only work with large crowds as a distraction if you had any level of organization and intent, which you would or it would be a fucking mess that you’d never control in the first place. You’d also be already at the guerilla warfare part of this revolution because what the fuck does that even mean when it comes to trying to show mass displeasure? Standing out front of ever politicians offices at once but never being remotely threatening because each “squad” can get its shit rocked one by one?
i'm glad you finally caught up. there is no point in showing "mass displeasure". they don't give a fuck what you think and everyone already knows this administration is bullshit. we are at the guerilla warfare stage NOW.
Bro I didn’t catch up you literally responded to a comment about being in crowds of protests with “go in squads not crowds” and no further explanation. I said that because I already assumed that was your point and had to hand-hold you to lock that in otherwise this conversation was going to go even more nowhere than it was heading.
With communication skills like that you’re not gunna be organizing anything, let alone thousands of “squads”.
you think i want to be in charge of herding you idiots?
Bro lol whose side are you on? Get bent.
i'm on the side of rational thought with humanitarian intentions. sorry you got butthurt.
cells within cells
Several layers of foil on your large protest sign, Also bring earplugs.
Wait this happened?
If it's anything as described, and the eyes are vibrating- That's quite a heavy lump of soft tissue.
Low frequency can pierce thin objects with ease. Some kind of foam would dampen high frequencies effectively but that low end is shaky.
Eyes vibrate when the vestibular nerve is messed with if they dislodged the inner ear crystals you would experience this along with potential vertigo