No I mean like, what happens when the laws of probability have a stroke and a crowd of protestors successfully routs the National Guard, drone strikes and all?
There's a great couple episodes of the working class history podcast about a similar situation under the dictatorship in South Korea in the 80s. The workers liberated the city for a few days, and then the full force of the military was concentrated and the uprising was suppressed :(
Speaking far more realistically - the governor would bring in 10x as many NG along with stuff like armored personnel carriers and other matériel to scare the utter crap out of the strikers. The governor would give them an ultimatum - "Disband with ______ hours or face the consequences".
And - if we want to go back to a sci-fi like unreality - the next day if there were "enough" strikers - in the mind of the governor - they'd be arrested. And if they refused - ridiculous amounts of force would be used on them. Maybe there would be an "unfortunate" death or two. And then the state government and/or the DOJ would give them obscenely long jail sentences.
They can't let the plebs think they have any sort of power at all.
No I mean like, what happens when the laws of probability have a stroke and a crowd of protestors successfully routs the National Guard, drone strikes and all?
There's a great couple episodes of the working class history podcast about a similar situation under the dictatorship in South Korea in the 80s. The workers liberated the city for a few days, and then the full force of the military was concentrated and the uprising was suppressed :(
You mean the full force of the military with the US army's backing
Speaking far more realistically - the governor would bring in 10x as many NG along with stuff like armored personnel carriers and other matériel to scare the utter crap out of the strikers. The governor would give them an ultimatum - "Disband with ______ hours or face the consequences".
And - if we want to go back to a sci-fi like unreality - the next day if there were "enough" strikers - in the mind of the governor - they'd be arrested. And if they refused - ridiculous amounts of force would be used on them. Maybe there would be an "unfortunate" death or two. And then the state government and/or the DOJ would give them obscenely long jail sentences.
They can't let the plebs think they have any sort of power at all.
well, as long as we're just lying down and taking it, we don't :(
Take a look at what is happening in Kazakhstan literally right now, the protesters there just did that