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[+] 63 points 2 years ago (7 children)
  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    When peaceful options such as strikes, protests, and lobbying do not work. Once, people hit the tipping point of "I have reasons not to die to fuck it, I have nothing left." People will choose violence.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Add legislation, regulation, and prosecution to the list of failed peaceful attempts as well. The citizens have tried, and tried, and tried peaceful approaches. Almost nothing works anymore, because the rich have dismantled the US.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It was bound to get to this point eventually. Who was it who said something about what happens when all avenues for change are removed except for the point of a blade?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Many have said similar things through the years, perhaps most appropriately from a US President only 60 years ago. On March 13, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”.

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