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minus-squareRouthinator@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up98·edit-219 hours agoRioting. Burning down the government, and hanging/decapitating the rich. I guess they want that rolled back to the old methods as well.
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 hours agoWe really should respect some traditions
minus-squareTown@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up15·16 hours agoThey feel protected because they think a violent populist reaction will be a few more lone actors.
minus-squareCobraCommander@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·16 hours agoAnd as long as Dems keep pushing the “violence is bad and what he wants, just vote and primary people” narrative it will be.
minus-squarechaogomu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·15 hours agoWell, the Dems are sort of right, violence is bad, and it is exactly what the fascists want, but it’s also the only way that oligarchs have ever been removed from power. They never go willingly.
minus-squareCobraCommander@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 hours agoViolence is a tool, one they want only for themselves to use against the people to maintain their power.
minus-squarebadgermurphy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 hours agoSadly for them, you can’t stop desperate people from getting violent no matter how many laws you make or civil liberties you gut. Its a tale as old as the human race: take too much from everyone, and they’ll eventually burn it down so everyone gets nothing and we try again.
minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·18 hours agoAmerica needs to hire the French to do their revolution for them.
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·18 hours agoIt kind of worked the first time…
minus-squarebadgermurphy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 hours agoFrance used me to undermine their British enemy and all I got was this lousy tshirt statue.
Rioting. Burning down the government, and hanging/decapitating the rich.
I guess they want that rolled back to the old methods as well.
They want 1939, give 'em 1789.
We really should respect some traditions
They feel protected because they think a violent populist reaction will be a few more lone actors.
And as long as Dems keep pushing the “violence is bad and what he wants, just vote and primary people” narrative it will be.
Well, the Dems are sort of right, violence is bad, and it is exactly what the fascists want, but it’s also the only way that oligarchs have ever been removed from power. They never go willingly.
Violence is a tool, one they want only for themselves to use against the people to maintain their power.
Sadly for them, you can’t stop desperate people from getting violent no matter how many laws you make or civil liberties you gut.
Its a tale as old as the human race: take too much from everyone, and they’ll eventually burn it down so everyone gets nothing and we try again.
America needs to hire the French to do their revolution for them.
It kind of worked the first time…
France used me to undermine their British enemy and all I got was this lousy
tshirtstatue.