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chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 day agoPeople are gling to suffer and die no matter what at this point, so we’d might as well go down swinging.
I’m gonna see what happens in November, but history tells us that violent dictatorships are rarely brought down by peaceful means.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
We can all hope for a toilet aneurysm.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Oh, there are peaceful movements that work. But then the autocrats can sometimes be eager to fire the first shots. Take January 6th, 2021 for example.
As Nelson Mandela put it, A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire.