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Source: theintercept.com ·
The 2018 war game envisioned a “Zbellion” by a tech-savvy generation that no longer believed in the American dream.
Michael Goldstein - @bitstein
4 weeks ago
If the Pentagon was serious about national security and defending against cyber attacks, this war game would be preemptively won by encouraging institutions to harden their financial security by putting money into deep Bitcoin cold storage rather than online SQL hot wallets. https://t.co/e9rGFScbE7
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Leigh Cuen - @La__Cuen
1 month ago
RT @LowBtc: The Pentagon wargamed fighting our children using Bitcoin (for real). https://t.co/OJdECdeF2A
@matt_odell warned of this
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Ragnar Lifthrasir ⚑ - @Ragnarly
1 month ago
RT @BottomshelfBTC: Attention Bitcoiners. Just something to think about. You're gonna need both @GunsnBitcoin if this happens... https://t.co/Q4MoFeCA11
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Andreas M. Antonopoulos - @aantonop
1 month ago
Pentagon war game includes scenario for military response to domestic Gen Z rebellion https://t.co/NRdOXEsbtb by @nickturse
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dj Thistle - @DJThistle01
1 month ago
Bitcoin & War Games
...sophisticated malware to siphon funds from..."the establishment"
..gains are then converted to Bitcoin and distributed to “worthy recipients”
..untraceable
...targets are selected based on “secure polling” of “network delegates”
https://t.co/v2dpOYeGZm
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Matt Odell - @matt_odell
1 month ago
RT @LowBtc: The Pentagon wargamed fighting our children using Bitcoin (for real). https://t.co/OJdECdeF2A
@matt_odell warned of this
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Vinay Gupta - @leashless
1 month ago
RT @robertcaruso: Pentagon War Game Included Scenario where "[m]any members of Gen Z — psychologically scarred in their youth by 9/11 and the Great Recession, crushed by college debt, and disenchanted with employment options — believe the system is rigged against them" https://t.co/s8XxIiiyh6
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Neeraj K. Agrawal - @NeerajKA
1 month ago
Pentagon War Game Included Scenario of Gen Z Protests https://t.co/9xe1D35oY2
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WarBoyPrimo
4 weeks ago
Does anyone know where I can find more of these? I have been trying to find more.
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iamboosh
4 weeks ago
Yes and if they're anything like the response we've seen to these protests, we're all fucked. (Tone deaf and ass backwards)
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brodies
4 weeks ago
My problem with this article is it’s treating it as a real thing. Much like the military’s plans for a zombie apocalypse, it’s a thought experiment and training scenario. It’s not an actual strategic plan for putting down the younglings.
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SayAyeCaptain
1 month ago
Man these protest have done wonders for millennial/ gen-z image. We gone from spoiled, entitled, Starbucks carrying, tuna industry killing, social media obsessed hipsters to... revolutionaries capable of fighting the US government? Lol
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1 month ago
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FreePoyais
1 month ago
That’s what happens when we throw more money at the military than they know what to do with.
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taoleafy
1 month ago
Imagine if there was some bit of software you and everyone you know could download and run that used your computer processor or game console in mega hacks of the halls and bank accounts of power and you get the basic premise of “Zbellion.”
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foxcoregrrrl
1 month ago
I was going to just comment " r/nottheonion" but actually this is very easy to believe at this point.
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SwagMasterZXZ
2000 1 month ago
Wth lol. This seems extrmely unlikely, if not entirely. Stats show Gen Z is one of the most hard-working generations compared to others past. I doubt they'll slip into criminal and anarchist activity lol. Most of the protesters are actually millenials right now.
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California1stMilitia
1 month ago
If the government wants to make war against the people.
I am prepared to defend my constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic
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LordQuagga
1 month ago
That's war gaming though. Also: doesn't mean they would go through with it. Just a plan.
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-dank-matter-
1 month ago
Why signal out Gen Z? I'm a millennial and I think we should break out the guillotines.
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MonicaB921
4 weeks ago
too old, 25-39 years old is too old. The older they are the more they have to lose, less to gain and lower propensity for risk taking behavior as well as fully developed frontal cortex (part responsible for empathy). Look at past history, even beyond American history.
[According to this exhaustive study of the Continental Army at Valley Forge](http://www.nps.gov/vafo/historyculture/upload/Demographic%20Survey.pdf), the average age of Washington’s soldiers in 1777 was between 20 and 25.
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darlantan
1 month ago
No shit. Millennials are the ones that might have pinched enough pennies to actually have some fucking arms by now.
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darlantan
1 month ago
I'm a left millennial and I could damn near equip a squad by myself. You have no idea what "the left" is if you think that.
Liberals tend to have a problem with firearms. The left tends to view them as a necessity.
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GetWayned
1 month ago
Left millennial here and I don't think that's correct. I'm going to buy my second gun today. My plate carrier will be here today or tomorrow. The thing about us (and gen z) is we don't have to fit into what older people think the "left" does. We do what we believe is right. I can believe in the second amendment and believe the police don't need to be armed like the military. They are the ones escalating right now. Everyone on the left should be weary and arming themselves. All we are doing is mimicking the right in that regard.
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TheMaddawg07
1 month ago
I applaud the fact that we can agree on the importance of 2A. However I disagree on the fact of cops are the ones escalating.
Cops weren’t the ones rioting or looting.
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ethbro -
@ethbro
1 month ago
Pentagon has plan for X, for values of X that are possible, is literally the job.
Do we want a military with extremely powerful weapons executing a carefully considered and studied plan, or just winging it?
And truth be told, joint / cooperative exercises are often more about C2 experience and relationship building and less about the actual objective. "Aliens attack" would be almost as effective at the primary goals. So why not have some fun with it?
The Intercept does veer into click-bait occasionally.
non-entity -
@non-entity
1 month ago
> In early 2025, a cadre of these disaffected Zoomers launch a protest movement. Beginning in “parks, rallies, protests, and coffee shops” — first in Seattle; then New York City; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Las Vegas; and Austin — a group known as Zbellion begins a “global cyber campaign to expose injustice and corruption and to support causes it deem[s] beneficial.”
These are the bad guys???
On another note, their profile of zoomers is pretty interesting. Perhaps it might just be the spots I hang out on the internet, but most of us do seem to radicalize easier, or at least fall further to whatever respective side of the economic spectrum.
throwaway0a5e -
@throwaway0a5e
1 month ago
They pay people to come up with scenarios. They range from mundane to far out there. If they didn't make up stuff like this they wouldn't be doing their jobs properly. I'm sure the NCOs had a blast making the PowerPoint for this one.
mcbrit -
@mcbrit
1 month ago
Consider Clausewitz / On War. Planning and executing an engagement is tactics, coordinating engagements to further the objective of the war is strategy. In modern military thought, a domestic rebellion would be one of a series of engagements in a war. Why was this war game executed / considered in such a stripped down context?
badloginagain -
@badloginagain
1 month ago
What strikes me about their scenario is how it assumes there is a core group making malware to rob the corporations.
While that would make an interesting episode of CSI: Who Cares, it doesn't square with the flash rebellions we've seen since the Arab Spring.
The nature of rebellions in our time are sudden, decentralized, massive protest movements with no clear leaders and no clear goals.
Much harder to counter one of these protest waves than troll the darknet for anarcho-hipster corporate raiders.
euroclear -
@euroclear
1 month ago
>Both the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Great Recession greatly influenced the attitudes of this generation in the United states, and resulted in a feeling of unsettlement and insecurity among Gen Z.
I'd be surprised if zoomers cared at all about 9/11, since they would've been too young to remember or process it.
tomato2juice -
@tomato2juice
1 month ago
The Pentagon is expected to plan for every eventuality. If they don't, they'll be blamed for not being prepared. The US had plans to invade British domains, such as Canada, between the two world wars (in which they were both allies)
orbifold -
@orbifold
1 month ago
Germany now has 20 million retirees that just got a raise of 3.5%-4.5% in their pensions . Already 1/4 of the population expects to be paid by a dwindling and ageing workforce. Before long 1 adult will have to pay for 4 retirees (in Denmark). This isn't a problem that will lead to military conflict necessarily, but (almost) for sure to a collapse of social safety nets by mid century.
alexandercrohde -
@alexandercrohde
1 month ago
If a majority of people are rebelling, then the pentagon's scenario should be how to help that majority reassert control over a runaway executive branch.
No harm in having a scenario where a minority of people commit a domestic rebellion.
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