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Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 8 hours agoSeriously? Man, I thought it was a satire piece the whole time. This was meant to be taken literally?
Comment on literally 451°
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 8 hours agoSeriously? Man, I thought it was a satire piece the whole time. This was meant to be taken literally?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Yes, it’s by a guy who thinks inciting a violent attempt to overthrow a major democratic institution should be protected as free speech. See this video by Jacob Geller about why such a wide spectrum of people points to Nineteen Eighty-Four, that’s where I got the information from.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
Well to be fair, the US declaration of independence is quite explicit about the right to revolution being one of the inalienable rights. They spent I think around 20 written lines talking about it.
Of course, it doesn’t mean their causes were just or their intentions were good or even that they were much more than an angry mob, but America was literally founded on the idea that a corrupt government should be overthrown by force.