Is this not the reason the second amendment exists? Regards An Australian Edit: I’m not advocating for violence. More so “a well regulated militia” which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

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    21 hours ago

    Nobody in human history has ever won a war against a dedicated insurgency. You’re historically/militarily illiterate and a coward.

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      If you define failed movements as either “not wars” or “not dedicated”, sure. A recent depressing example I am assuming is definitioned out of your view is Hong Kong, which is firmly under the control of mainland China. A slightly more distant example is Northern Ireland, which is firmly part of Britain.

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        Hong Kong was definitely not even close to a dedicated insurgency, in large part because the majority of the population appears to understand that they’re better off with China than they ever would be with the UK. China never even came close to deploying tanks and bombs either, terrible example.

        Northern Ireland was much more successful while they were still fighting, then popular support for the IRA waned due to concessions on the part of the UK because they could see they weren’t going to win.

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      And you stopped arguing and started making personal attacks so this conversation serves no further purpose.

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        No, I made a coherent historical argument and then accurately personally attacked you, you’re using the second part as an excuse to ignore the first part but we both know you’ve got no counter-argument. Like I said, fucking coward.

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          The answer is that people aren’t willing to die in the tens of thousands to millions when they hope to unseat the scum in 26 ot 28

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            Those are absurdly unrealistic numbers but you’re not wrong about the delusional hope of voting their way out keeping a bunch of people complacent for the moment