• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    An armed left is like base level marxism

    And then what?

    Suppose you get falsely charged by the state because of your politics, what are you going to do? Get into armed conflict against the police officers coming to arrest you?

    Is that what Steven Donziger should have done?

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      8 months ago

      It’s not like armed insurgencies don’t happen in modern countries. Look up the IRA. Even if you are not keen on blowing up billionaires, you can still shoot meal team six as they try to bring back lynching and the KKK.

      That said, disarming the country including the police, especially the police, would be more conductive to a peaceful life. So would actual democratic representation.

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        8 months ago

        Absolutely not, I’m all for defunding the police but if your idea of a peaceful country doesn’t involve someone owning and being willing to defend themselves with firearms you’re just living in a fantasy where crime just magically doesn’t exist.

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          8 months ago

          In my part of the world, people grow up just fine without owning firearms. This whole gun worship is mostly a US thing.

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            8 months ago

            In your part of the world there’s no cops, no one owns firearms, and there’s just no crime?