• Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOP
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    24 hours ago

    Berlin would disagree with you. Regardless, even if you want to believe that protesting will do nothing, Waco should be all the history you need to know about to know what actually happens in the scenario you’re encouraging.

    That was over 30 years ago, against one government agency, on a compound armed to the teeth, and with a president in power that actually cared about how something like that might look to the rest of the world.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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      Berlin would disagree with you.

      What? Are you referring to Berlin prior to the Nazi takeover? There were leftist and fascist having all out battles in the streets of Berlin for over a decade prior to the takeover. Which eventually happened because the centerist of the weimar republic decided not to fight back.

      Waco should be all the history you need to know about to know what actually happens in the scenario you’re encouraging.

      You mean the event that led the federal government to be afraid of policing radical right winged politics for decades? The event that is often quoted as responsible to the free spread of right winged nationalism across America…leading to the election of an ultra conservative president we tolerate today?

      You have no idea what you are talking about, everything you said was wrong.

      You really should educate yourself before trying to tell others what to think. Try reading the death of democracy by Benjamin Hett. It goes over the parralelles between the fall of weimar republic and our current situation.

    • dinren@discuss.online
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      24 hours ago

      What exactly do you think I’m encouraging, because a child abuse compound is not one of them.