Poll: would you join an armed rebellion against an oppressive government?

[nongentlegentleman]

Things get to bad I fight. Even if it is a losing battle I stand when the need arises even if only to die...its a wonder I'm alive

 

[Vykrel]

if it was like Half-Life 2, ya

 

[Paksenarrion]

/thread!

To avoid low content post warnings, I shall type the following:

If you can't stand the heat, form your own country on some deserted island.

Yes and that is how democracy works if your not happy with your government you can just leave until they have a country of supporters and turn it into dictatorship.It will be like nazi germany but instead of arresting everybody that dont agree with the government or the government doesnt like they will just force them out of there homes.

It worked for Andrew Ryan. He was not satisfied with the status quo, so he built an underwater utopia. I was surprised that it fell apart after only a few years. You could even say I was...*puts on shades*...Shocked.

Well it didnt did it rapture ended up having a rebelion of its own that killed nearly everybody or should the people against Ryan leave to make their own country.At this rate we will have millions of countries with a few hundred people in them at most.

Wait...it *didn't* fall apart? Which adjective-pronoun combination does your negative apply to?

So, millions of countries with a few hundred people in them...let's try that. Democracy works better with smaller numbers of people.

 

[Ramin 123]

Yeah sure, anything to get out of the 9-5 job and the general mediocrity of life

 

[Tdc2182]

I'm not really the soldierly type, but I would try and do SOMETHING for the resistance. I'm not a big fan of the US government now so if they get worse, I can see myself as a rebel.

Yeah, but the thing about the our government in the US is that its not really corrupt, more just morally bankrupt and outdated.

But on a side note that ironically moots the point I just made, How the fuck did all those pentagon people with child porn get away scott free?

 

[JordanXlord]

i think the rebellion could really use a Grand PyroMancer on their side

lucky for them i think the USA right now is stupid...I'll do this rebellion for the fun of me setting things on fire and land...and no more fox news is always good for the Human Brain



Sorry bad guys...FEAR YOUR NEW FIREY DEATHS!!!!

 

[gigastar]

Depends, im probably the 'was evil all along guy' overthrow last government, install myself with Vetinari Job Security [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VetinariJobSecurity?from=Main.VetinariParadox], biuld confidence with the people, covertly remove opposition then...

BAM, offworld slave labor.

Except the gullible fucktards would still think theyre doing right.

 

[Something Amyss]

Depends on whether I like the facists in charge. >.>

 

[Sutter Cane]

Honestly, probably not even if things got unbearable. By nature I'm not the fighting type (yeah, i'm kind of a coward).

 

[individual11]

Hell yeah.

You starting one?

 

[thiosk]

Part of me wonders if I should already be doing this, the way things in the UK are going.

Will and Kate are totally hot! Rebel and restore the power of the monarchy!!!!! TEA AND CRUMPETS FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mazza35]

I would, if things really got bad enough to evoke a rebellion, I am pretty stealthy in forests and things and I do have quite a tactical mind (I think anyways) I would be font linish, but then again. A rebellion isn't bring thousands of soldiers to front door and shoot, it's a series or small little raids here and there, taking over small towns, destroying key installations. Things like that.

 

[Arcticflame]

Nope, I'm in touch with reality enough that if a rebellion started I would have to wait for it to be a 50/50 chance of who would win before I joined the band wagon.

I'd probably just be annoying and tell everyone I saw it coming.

 

[Brawndo]

I would, if things really got bad enough to evoke a rebellion, I am pretty stealthy in forests and things and I do have quite a tactical mind (I think anyways) I would be font linish, but then again. A rebellion isn't bring thousands of soldiers to front door and shoot, it's a series or small little raids here and there, taking over small towns, destroying key installations. Things like that.

Mazza35's stealthy forest tactical mind, meet Mr. Infrared Predator Drone. This isn't Red Dawn - the Wolverines would get raped. The only way a rebellion could succeed against a modern military is with the aid of a rebelling segment of that same military

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

I'm a pacifist, but if it was a really oppressive government, I'd probably end up helping the rebels via non-combative services.

 

[Spygon]

/thread!

Yes and that is how democracy works if your not happy with your government you can just leave until they have a country of supporters and turn it into dictatorship.It will be like nazi germany but instead of arresting everybody that dont agree with the government or the government doesnt like they will just force them out of there homes.

It worked for Andrew Ryan. He was not satisfied with the status quo, so he built an underwater utopia. I was surprised that it fell apart after only a few years. You could even say I was...*puts on shades*...Shocked.

Well it didnt did it rapture ended up having a rebelion of its own that killed nearly everybody or should the people against Ryan leave to make their own country.At this rate we will have millions of countries with a few hundred people in them at most.

Wait...it *didn't* fall apart? Which adjective-pronoun combination does your negative apply to?

So, millions of countries with a few hundred people in them...let's try that. Democracy works better with smaller numbers of people.

So having a civil war where nearly everybody dies and the leader of the city suddenly unable to control it starts killing off minorities isnt letting something fall apart.So on this note we have gone fall circle to why oppressive leaders/governments should be rebeled against when they threaten the freedom and safety of the populace.

 

[Drentics]

I'm not trained in combat. Joining an armed rebellion would be suicide.

 

[Taliesin Hoyle]

I marched in protest in apartheid South Africa, and used to watch the riots on Western Deep Levels gold mine near Carletonville. I had a good pair of binoculars, and a vantage point on a hill. I saw what carnage and fear a riot entails. I saw a man get impaled on an assegai from behind, I saw a necklacing, and I saw people teargassed and beaten. I marched, but when things started to turn, and the yellow trucks with the watercannons came, I got the hell out of there. I used to go down to where the riot had been, and pick up rubber bullets and knobkerries and adzes from amidst the blood, puke piss and car-tire soled shoes.

 

[Biosophilogical]

it is the responisbility of an enlightened and free people to rise up against oppression, with arms if necessary.

I like the if necessary bit, it kind of leaves it open for all the arm-less citizens to join in as well. How very open-minded and minority-pleasing of you.

OT: If it got really bad ... I don't have guns, nor do I know how to use them ... but assuming someone supplied me with guns, and assuming the resistance leader wasn't a "Let's needlessly send people on suicide mission" person (you know the type I mean), then yeah, I would; freedom and all that jazz.