Not trying to insult you though. I get triggered when people say "it'll never happen here because.... our government is too nice/retarded/scared of "muh gunz" (in case of America)".
ok, let's go with this. your argument it nothing ever happens, so all the coups, riots, violent overthrows and civil wars that ever happened only did because the TPTB allowed them to, to their own demise? this obviously doesn't make any sense.
I take it you're not a yuro, who have a millennia long history to start a war or two if shit isn't peaches and sunshine - and that's before the influx of demographic replacements.
fucking france has constant chimpouts, trucks of peace and knife attacks all over europe, racial tensions higher than ever, and THIS is who you want to conscript and give weapons to? are you really sure that this is your argument?
agree 100% on this take. people will receive conscription papers and will go queue to get their rifle and uniform. else, they will lose their job, be debanked, their kids will be conscripted instead (they will be conscripted anyway), and so on; cops/body snatcher patrols will be istituted and they will comply to their orders like any ordinary cop does and even better because that will keep them away from the front. C19 was the perfect blueprint. you will not be able to hide because your neighbour will report you, like many bastards did during lockdowns. and many brainwashed idiots will run to enlist because muh democracy and freedom. i heard of people who just got the 5th dose.
if you base your evidence around a time were people had money and a house in comparison to when they don't, I don't know what to tell you. yeah sure, everyone will comply, how that works we can see in this very thread. you CAN NOT run your whole army like a penal battalion, even if you had the logistics, manpower or will, and that's before you go into morale, fighting spirit or basic shit like not finding a live grenade in your tent later like it happened in vietnam.
will there be a hollywood moment where everyone rises up, defeat the evil oppressors to a hans zimmer soundtrack and everybody claps when the sunrises come up? hardly. you only need to take one fucking look at the yugoslavian war to see how bad shit can get.
the romans figured out over 2000 years ago you need bread and circuses to keep your population compliant. where is your compliance if they not only take your bread and circuses, but also your sons (which never happened during covid, thus making the whole comparison moot)? again, this doesn't mean going out in a blaze of glory no one will remember, subversion and rebellion isn't always violent - it's just the last and final stage. but how much does it really take for someone to take their grievances out on an government official, especially if there's nothing else to lose anyway? there's a reason everyone says to never back an animal into a corner, not because it will "rise up", but because it will react irrationally. TPTB can't even prevent chimpouts right fucking now, but I'm sure they will when everything's worse and everyone's desperate.