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by dcow
2778 days ago
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I agree with you completely except that I caution people not dismiss the idea of an armed rebellion so easily. It’s really easy to fool ourselves into thinking bad shit doesn’t happen and we are “beyond violence”. I want to believe it too, but let’s just say for example Trump starts rounding up “illegals” and shooting them if they refuse to leave our country. Just think about that. At some point many of us would break and as we see our friends and families torn apart we would be willing to die to defend their humanity. Hopefully we’d have some of the military on our side, but we’d likely break out in civil war. Our military is powerful but not as big as many people assume. It can’t do shit to a bunch of people in concrete urban structures with AKs what makes anyone think 100MM citizens with weapons wouldn’t be effective in seizing control back from a tyrannical leader? Those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither. I know you’ve heard it before. But I honestly worry we’re suffering from a “times are good why do I need all these liberties my ancestors fought for” phase and it would be really dumb to forfeit them all and then end up back at square one with an actual actively oppressive system governing us and no way to defend ourselves against it. |
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I'd say that that's a valid I'd concern even as a Trump supporter. All governments are capable of copious amounts of nastiness. Today, my guy could be in power, tomorrow someone else's will be. Therefore, systems that take this into account would perform better than those that don't.