Many of the places you're talking about were completely fucked by colonialism. Africa and many third world countries are still having their wealth extracted by nations with more power and influence.

I think that we'd find Americans in the same circumstances as them would likely not act much differently. We have a huge theocratic facist base in the country that could hypothetically do more than an inept storming of the capital. Most Americans just have too much to lose to want to sacrifice themselves for their beliefs.

Very hard to tell for me. If there is some sort of big populist movement that actually tries to fix the country maybe it can resolve peacefully. The US believed in taxing companies and the wealthy to better our country during the time of FDR, it could happen again.

Yep, i think the dogs are gonna be first. Have a gun and a utility arm on that thing and control it with an xbox controller. If the US were in a real war it would already be fielded no question.

Its UBI, genocide, or violent revolution. People like to pretend its not, but it really will be our options when these things are fully capable in 10-20 years.