you don’t think the arm population would immediately be on edge?
Not meaningfully. As we've seen time and time again, the 2A crowd is perfectly content to allow the state to be as authoritarian as it likes, so long as it's hurting those pesky undesirables.
The 2A crowd didn't do shit when the 1985 move bombing happened. They didn't do shit when DeSantis started harrasing people with cops in their own homes for using their 1A rights. They didn't do shit when pro-palestinian protesters were getting the shit beat out of them by cops for using their 1A rights. They didn't do shit for the myriad of bullshit wars the U.S. was involved in. They didn't do shit when it came out how many countries the CIA destabilized in Latin America. The nth time will be no different.
The authoritarians have little to fear, because the group that likes to act like they would keep that in check fully support it.
The hard part is getting people to join you to take a stand. To make real change it has to be a significant portion of the population demanding change.
Not really. They've got more than enough cops to hit more than one house at a time. In Florida they have about 50k cops. If they sent 10 at a time per house, that's 5000 homes they could invade at a time. That's not hesitant or delayed at all.
If DeSantis wants to put the state in marshal law he would have to convince the armed citizens of the state that that is ok,
No he doesn't. All he has to do is send cops to people's homes, one by one, like he just did. Nobody is going to meaningfully stand up to the police if they take people one at a time, one house at a time.
so expect hesitation on following some orders.
There's no reason for there to be any more hesitation. Cops already believe themselves to be doing the most dangerous job, and they outgun you when they show up to your house. For them it's just another day.
But the 2nd amendment doesn't increase the cost of authoritarian action. DeSantis just sent rounds of police to people's homes for signing petitions to put abortion on the ballot in Florida.
The 2nd amendment didn't do jack shit to stop him from threatening people for their free speech. Because if a squad of a dozen cops lands on your front door, whether you like it or not you're either going to be shot, detained, your guns taken away, etc. Having a gun doesn't change that. You're fucked, gun or not, if the state sends armed personnel to your home.
And arguably you're more fucked if you have a gun because of how trigger happy cops are. The moment they think you're armed they'll shoot you.
From the campaigns I've DMed, I've gone for a bit of an in-between. My primary focus is to have a fun, shared narrative. I'll always let players do stupid things that get them into grave danger. But at most, I'll usually only ever kill a few of the PCs.
If they act carefully, they can avoid getting into that situation all together. If they act stupid, they may have some deaths on their hands, but never a TPK. I don't want that kind of narrative dead end.
The other thing, is that I will never put the players in such a situation in which there isn't a way out of it. Usually this comes down to abusing the rule of cool a bit. Maybe they use a well aimed shatter to collapse a cave and separate themselves from their enemies. Maybe they jump down the cliff into the river below. Maybe the enemies have taken such a beating themselves that they find they aren't willing to fight to the death.
The spoiler effect is a geometric problem within FPTP voting systems, it has nothing to do with weak stances/lack of common interests of a given candidate.
The spoiler effect is a geometric problem, a problem of the relative positions of candidates. It has nothing to do with how strong or good of a candidate someone is.
I can't say I'm familiar with that particular event. But I'm guessing there is a difference there in that iMessage is well, a messaging service. YouTube isn't, their videos are on public webpages.
All Freetube and company needs to do, if it comes to it, is find a way extract a video from a public webpage. There's a million ways to do that.
iMessage is not a public webpage, and so there is no real way around it unless you go through their api.
Youtube/google/alphabet are almost certainly aware it exists already. The only real risk is too many people switching to it.
But even then there isn't much they can do to stop it's use. They can't tighten up or remove their api, but then page scraping will take over. They can obfuscation their page, but that will not work forever.
It's a cat and mouse game that is impossible to win for them.
Unrelated, but nice username