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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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At least we kept bLuEmAGa from being in power! That would have been MUCH worse!/s (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

While they probably would have disagreed about everything else, I think Montesquieu would have agreed with Mao's statement that political power grows from the barrel of a gun. In Montesquieu 's day the numbers of armed civilians would have easily eclipsed any slight edge in technology and tactics that the military would have. Today however, even if we had every citizen pick up an AR-15, it would be insignificant to the bombs and missiles and artillery the military could field. The consent of the governed is no longer needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

[gestures vaguely at Afghanistan]