• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    If only there were some unique way in which Americans were better prepared than most populations to deal with quickly resisting and overthrowing a tyrannical government.

    Oh well.

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      2 days ago

      This is one of those comments that it’s really easy to make from the comfort of your home on the internet, and almost impossible to put into action. I’d go so far as to say it’s even more useless of a suggestion than the ‘Just protest!’ folks.

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        It’s a comment made by a person who lives in a country where in living memory a small spark of resistance led to the eventual defeat of the most powerful empire on Earth.

        “Almost impossible”.

        Sorry guys we didn’t want fascism but the alternative was just, like, hard.

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          You’re clearly advocating for gun violence without explicitly saying it. I think in most cases the folks who advocate for this are thinking of it in terms of either someone assassinating Trump, or in the whole country rising up and taking the government by force. I’m not going to sit here and discuss why either of those options are more than just, like, hard, nor am I going to advocate for either because I don’t think they’d have the effect any of us are hoping for in practice.