By the tone of your post, I'm not sure. I was honestly under the impression that this is true, at least partially. Using the heaviest possible weapons on a civilian uprising in the US would probably be kind of a stupid decision, at least immediately resorting to it would, but there's no guarantee whatsoever, that I'm aware of, that you'd be spared having to fight against weapons like that, so I'm not going to offer any such guarantee. If I'm wrong not to offer such an assurance, then I'm wrong.
What I will say, to anyone who will listen, is that it does not matter. Not one bit. I tell you this: the American state is very powerful. It is powerful technologically, it is powerful economically, it has a huge army, it has a massive surveillance state, etc. It has the advantages, and I'll tell you that whether you are a revolutionary in the US, or the UK, or Russia, or Germany, or France, or Saudi Arabia, your government has the advantages. In all likelihood, if you take part actively in a revolution, you will die doing so. Chances are high, even now, that you will fail. This is only the truth, and it's a truth which anyone who is serious must look right in the eye so that, rather than cowering in fear or proceeding to failure in denial, they can take what measures they can to best prevent the most likely outcome, which is failure.
Another truth which I cannot deny is this: the power of these states, the US in particular, is largely matched by their evil. The American state, its once-thinly-veiled oligarchs, its military industrial complex, its political class and enforcers, kills millions. Whether or not you participate in revolution, the American state will fuck you over. Whether or not it kills you, you are likely to know someone who it kills, whether in its idiotic wars, its violent suppression of the populace, its extractive real estate schemes, its rolling recessions, or its allowance of the very-rich to kill millions in the name of profit and get off with fines, as did the Sackler family of Purdue Pharma fame. Abroad, its wars and war profiteering cause great chaos, killing many more, and inflaming tensions which return to America in the form of mass-migration and impotent terror attacks. The American state's divide-and-conquer political tactic, by which it separates people into marginalized identity groups and sics them on eachother to prevent a united workforce, likewise results in blind, idiotic violence and grave dehumanization of
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