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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7802418

Don't forget about the Irish unification of 2024!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Political power akctually flows from the collimator-matrix of a phaser.

But a gun? Puh-lease.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

love the technobabble

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's actually where democracy came from. When guns came along, it became extremely cheap and easy to turn every random peasant into a soldier. This meant that you essentially always had to have the will of the people on your side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Not necessarily. Prussia managed to be “an army with a country” and be despotic

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I guess hypothetically it doesn't take long to teach someone how to use a gun, but based on my interactions with people who refuse to touch a gun or want to destroy any current legal firearm ownership legislation - teaching them to be proficient with a firearm will be an entirely different ballgame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

nerd "um, actually political power flows from the end of a voting slip, its like malcolm x said, malcolm-checks "by any ballot box necessary" "

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I can't believe that the soviets didn't just vote Hitler out of office smh