Guns can provide opportunity, but (in spite of Mao claiming to be communist) it truly comes from the joining of people for common cause. A gun can help even the playing field, but it can easily be abused by those with ulterior motives.
Yeah, power can be abused, what else is new? But people joining for a cause also doesn’t do much if they don’t have the means to enforce their cause with violence - usually they’ll just get overwhelmed by whoever does have the means for violence. Peaceful revolutions are possible (e.g. Indian independence), but they require relatively specific circumstances and a lot of people who are willing to stay nonviolent even as they’re beaten up (and worse) by the police. I suppose you can do almost anything peacefully if your group is large enough and has enough cohesion, but that’s incredibly difficult to achieve and I think it’s actually more difficult nowadays, because everyone has a handheld communication device on them at all times that’s filled with fascist propaganda.
Lol ok sounds like you are suggesting the rich people on my side are actually just friends with the rich people on the side of our sworn enemies!!!
Trust me as not a rich person, I know my rich people, they would never do that! Only the other side’s rich pople would and then only because secretly the whole lot of those savages, poors and all, want it to even if they claim they don’t.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Who decides who the powerful are :P ?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Can’t believe I’m quoting fucking Mao, but: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Guns can provide opportunity, but (in spite of Mao claiming to be communist) it truly comes from the joining of people for common cause. A gun can help even the playing field, but it can easily be abused by those with ulterior motives.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yeah, power can be abused, what else is new? But people joining for a cause also doesn’t do much if they don’t have the means to enforce their cause with violence - usually they’ll just get overwhelmed by whoever does have the means for violence. Peaceful revolutions are possible (e.g. Indian independence), but they require relatively specific circumstances and a lot of people who are willing to stay nonviolent even as they’re beaten up (and worse) by the police. I suppose you can do almost anything peacefully if your group is large enough and has enough cohesion, but that’s incredibly difficult to achieve and I think it’s actually more difficult nowadays, because everyone has a handheld communication device on them at all times that’s filled with fascist propaganda.
Fletcher@lemmy.today 1 month ago
The rich.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Lol ok sounds like you are suggesting the rich people on my side are actually just friends with the rich people on the side of our sworn enemies!!!
Trust me as not a rich person, I know my rich people, they would never do that! Only the other side’s rich pople would and then only because secretly the whole lot of those savages, poors and all, want it to even if they claim they don’t.
Zip2@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It’s always the side with the most guns. Or swords. Or spears with stones on the end.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
It always appears to be this side.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
The answer may surprise you.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Big gun
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Take a look around.