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• shplane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay, if this was happening in your country, what would you do that would actually stop fascism?

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  • whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, don’t worry- we’re all aware it’s coming to our country. And we’re armed.

    I love how every time Americans are challenged on their lack of urgency, your response is always to pull a tu quoque, though. Never fails.

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    • shplane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Your answer is you’re armed? Does that mean you’ll shoot and kill the bad people who rise to power in your country?

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• Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  100% this.

  The well regulated militia in the most armed country in the world is just the typical exceptionalism story. Talk is cheap but when it comes to act, americans are just little bitches. Hollywood can whitewash the history later.

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  • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For decades the American left has been, on the whole, anti-firearms. There simply are not enough of us who own and train with guns. If/when a civil war happens we lose. And that’s before you start taking into account drones and surveillance.

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    • Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Statistics say no.

      At the end of the day it only takes a Luigi.

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      • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        66% of Republicans vs 41% of Democrats and 45% of independents. I still don’t like those numbers.

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Folded like a lawn chair the second a dictator pops up to pry every past remaining bit of wealth and power out of our hands.

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• los_chill@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What do you want me to do? I’m fucking out there protesting. Shit I’ll be at another rally today. I wish things were different but I’m not a coward and I’m doing what I can. I’m sorry.

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  • whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you’re … going to parades.

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