You can’t murder your way into democracy.
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morphballganon@mtgzone.com 3 weeks agoThat depends on who is emboldened by the news.
Right-wingers might “good riddance, I got mine”
Left-wingers might “hey, we could get democracy back”
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
shani66@ani.social 3 weeks ago
…where do you think most democracies came from?
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They must’ve been… Immaculately concieved.
Serinus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tell that to France.
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah well that’s a better example than the American revolution anyway, but I guess I view revolution against government as being a little different than murder of a citizen exercising their right to free speech. The French revolution also was fighting to establish a democracy, wherein people could freely exchange ideas and contribute to the shape of government. Democracy doesn’t work if people murder each other instead of discussing things and using your vote to shape government. Violence must be prohibited and overwhelmingly condemned or it devolves into a zero sum game. This isn’t a victory for the left, this is a loss for society, further degradation of our republic.
Cypher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
Facts don’t care about your feelings.
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The irony of using the American revolution to justify murdering people for speaking their opinion…
Cypher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You claimed it is impossible to murder your way into democracy, I gave you an example of people murdering their way into democracy.
Shifting the goalposts to be about ‘muh freeze peaches’ is weak.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 3 weeks ago
The infrastructure for democracy is already there. It’s just been shelved temporarily by the current admin.
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ideological assassinations are a huge step in the wrong direction. Once you open the door to violence in place of speech and exchange of ideas, it’s a bad place. Everyone should condemn this. Do you honestly believe it’s a good idea to start killing people? Who is next? It’s not always going to be people you disagree with, and ANY murders need to be condemned.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 3 weeks ago
This is just the trolley problem. If you can save 5 people by killing 1, is it correct to do so, or take no action?
Well, we’ve got lots of people taking no action, and look where that’s got us.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You are correct. The last several times it was a dem. We have protesred and taljed enough. Things only het worse for both sides. I hope they kill them all.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m just sick of waiting around while the world slowly gets fucked over
get on with it and get it over with. hopefully the not-nazis win