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Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use

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Re: Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use

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Things are going to get wild in the US the first time someone uses a drone to take out a corrupt cop who received a paid vacation as punishment for brutalizing an innocent person.

I dont know of any real vigilante examples on Police in US.

That's because it's too hard to get away with it.

Drones will change the balance of power and you'll definitely start to see more of it.

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I dont know of any real vigilante examples on Police in US.

That's because it's too hard to get away with it. Drones will change the balance of power and you'll definitely start to see more of it.

It'll go both ways. All ways. The US is going to have its own version of [The Troubles][1] by 2033.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles

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I dont know of any real vigilante examples on Police in US.

That's because it's too hard to get away with it. Drones will change the balance of power and you'll definitely start to see more of it.

Why won’t the police be supplied with countermeasures and drones of their own?

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I dont know of any real vigilante examples on Police in US.

That's because it's too hard to get away with it. Drones will change the balance of power and you'll definitely start to see more of it.

At the point you decide hurting people is ok you are usually mentally unstable enough to not be aware or care. People this bad in the head end up shooting up a school, or like the last SS/swastika tattoo sporting Texas neo Nazi attack a mall in predominantly white neighborhood. Mindless violence combined with suicide by cops.

Somehow we seem to be past the IRA/Baader–Meinhof politically motivated organized groups, and deep into incel suicides. You wont find Carlos the Jackal in the west outside movie screens.

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That's because it's too hard to get away with it. Drones will change the balance of power and you'll definitely start to see more of it.

Why won’t the police be supplied with countermeasures and drones of their own?

Short of a ubiquitous gorgon stare[0] level of surveillance, how do you stop someone from deploying an autonomous drone with facial recognition that hunts down a particular individual?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

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