PirateFrog

The states:

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No worries, and will do! :)

Good to know. Thanks for the summary!

For others reading, be aware that acquiring a HAM license will assign you a callsign that, if looked up on the FCC website, reveals your full name and home address unless you take measures to avoid that, such as getting a PO Box.

If you only plan on using a HAM radio during times of emergency, such as the type indicated in the video, obtaining the license is more of a formality than a necessity. Though learning how to use HAM radio, and which frequencies to avoid, would be fruitful either way.

Unless you are being a jerk on the airwaves, or are actively jamming a HAM frequency, the FCC will not bother to ensure you are licensed, for HAM or GMRS.

Most repeater stations are sticklers for rules though, so you'll likely need a callsign to be able to use them.

Apologies. Alt text added!

Found that the book mentioned in the video on how to configure and use these radios is available for free on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/ncscout-the-guerrillas-guide-to-the-baofeng-radio-2022

Found that the book mentioned in the video on how to configure and use these radios is available for free on Archive:

https://archive.org/details/ncscout-the-guerrillas-guide-to-the-baofeng-radio-2022

I mean, if things descend into civil war, I would hope that some country out there is willing to throw their hat in the ring like that, like Canada or some countries in the EU, but I get the vibe that they'd be afraid to take a side in case the left lost.

But if they want to actually jump in, I'd certainly welcome the help!

from someone that admittedly doesn’t read anything that might not agree with their existing beliefs.

As I mentioned before, I did read them, and I concluded that further research into ML will not be fruitful.

You just generalized so much history into a single sentence it’s embarrassing.

I only generalize due to longer comments being undesirable (more detail in the long previous comment, if you like).

Either way, further discussion will only result in needless conflict. I genuinely wish you the best. Farewell.

God, I wish anarchist actually had a successful revolution to point to so us MLs could pick apart every little failure of its post revolution society too. But, alas, they have never lasted long enough to actually be able to defend themselves.

I actually mentioned in my long comment you didn't want to read there were no successful Anarchist revolutions due to ML's betraying them each and every time to quash any chance of them succeeding.

If I suggested to you that a died in the wool capitalist and white supremacist wrote the best treatise on a particular historical event, I think you would be highly rational to be extremely skeptical of that claim, and not give it much time, if any (I certainly wouldn't), due to how likely it is that the material is extremely biased and likely to misrepresent reality, rendering its use as a lens of historical analysis useless.

I see Marxist-Leninists as similarly biased, and in some ways cult-like, as it requires an inordinate amount of cognitive dissonance to give an earnest look at it today and truly believe it to be the best path forward (In my opinion, anyway, and that ultimately matters very little). I would say the same to someone trying to convert me to become religious, and they too would likely say my dislike and lack of willingness to read their scripture is irrational.

Obviously to someone in that world, I'm speaking heresy, but it does exemplify that we're both quite opinionated on the other's views in the same way two offshoot religions are, and like those religions, there is little chance of converting one to the other when they are both set in what they think of each other, though I do still hope that you see ML for what it truly is someday.

tl;dr, you said I lacked an understanding of history, and didn't understand what I meant by authoritarian. I elaborated. I don't trust Marxist-Leninism due to numerous historical examples of their failings to cooperate with other anti-capitalists (I.E, killing them), and consistant human rights abuses.