And then what, rule over a pile of lifeless radioactive smoldering ruins?
Not to mention irradiated farmland that would be completely useless for growing anything other than mutated wildlife that glows in the dark. As much as the Blue states bitch and moan about the Red states, they need us more than we need them, because food has to come from somewhere. They think that their food magically appears in their nearest bodega or grocery store out of some mythical infinite distribution center. Their rooftop chicken coops and community gardens aren't going to fill the millions of people in urban areas. If the supply chain to the cities stops, they're fucked.
The Viet Cong and the Taliban didn't need nuclear weapons to fend off the US military in their homelands.
Truth. Which is why they're pulling so hard to keep anything even remotely close to an AR15 out of the hands of the general populace - a good gunsmith can modify those to go burst or auto without breaking a sweat. The Taliban and the VC kept our soldiers at bay with AKs and guerrilla tactics, and there's no reason why the same wouldn't work on our home soil if push came to shove.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the comment about LARPing. Hell, the illiberal liberals have been fantasizing about using drone strikes on the general right-of-Mao populace for years now, so escalating it to nuking the general populace is the next fantasy step.
I highly doubt anyone other than the useful idiots on the low tier of wokeness pyramid think that anyone is actually going to plant trees to do carbon offsets. If anything, they're more about letting the big companies in the US burn the fuel and then slap them with offset taxes, all while ignoring the clouds of smog in the air and garbage in the water over in China and India.
Not to mention irradiated farmland that would be completely useless for growing anything other than mutated wildlife that glows in the dark. As much as the Blue states bitch and moan about the Red states, they need us more than we need them, because food has to come from somewhere. They think that their food magically appears in their nearest bodega or grocery store out of some mythical infinite distribution center. Their rooftop chicken coops and community gardens aren't going to fill the millions of people in urban areas. If the supply chain to the cities stops, they're fucked.
Truth. Which is why they're pulling so hard to keep anything even remotely close to an AR15 out of the hands of the general populace - a good gunsmith can modify those to go burst or auto without breaking a sweat. The Taliban and the VC kept our soldiers at bay with AKs and guerrilla tactics, and there's no reason why the same wouldn't work on our home soil if push came to shove.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the comment about LARPing. Hell, the illiberal liberals have been fantasizing about using drone strikes on the general right-of-Mao populace for years now, so escalating it to nuking the general populace is the next fantasy step.
They dream of genociding all of the flyover states and probably turning it all into co2 offsetting carbon capture forest.
I highly doubt anyone other than the useful idiots on the low tier of wokeness pyramid think that anyone is actually going to plant trees to do carbon offsets. If anything, they're more about letting the big companies in the US burn the fuel and then slap them with offset taxes, all while ignoring the clouds of smog in the air and garbage in the water over in China and India.