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• Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • OccamsRazer@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No your example is just really really bad

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s wrong with the example? The revolutionaries killed until they were able to establish a democracy, directly refuting your claim.

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      • OccamsRazer@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They fought a war against an opposing army, not by assassinating people exercising their right to discuss opinions and ideas. In fact they fought FOR the right to have opinions and ideas and to express them. They thought it was so important to protect that right, that they put it into the bill of rights, which specifically states that the right to free speech transcends government. The government that they wanted could only exist if people could freely exchange ideas without fear of being murdered (or imprisoned) for them. That’s why its a particularly bad example.

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