YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoAmericans are sleepwalking into a Trump dictatorshipwww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1553arrow-down152
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minus-squareNocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down3·11 months agoHave you ever seen a peaceful overthrow of a government before? I haven’t.
minus-squarepsvrh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down3·11 months agoCzechoslovakia did it. That’s about the only example I can think of.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·11 months agoThey did? They just assumed control after a large majority was already dead.
minus-squarepsvrh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoThe dissolution of Czechoslovakia was probably the only time in history that a state just voted to dissolve without violence.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoYeah, I’m not arguing with you, BUT…there was a ton of violence before, just not directly related. It’s a power vacuum by violence.
minus-squareboredtortoiselinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoI don’t mind the way if the people there can get some kind of progress going, while it’s wrong to condone a violent uprising. Peaceful movement can of course turn into a self defense situation which is ethically understandable.
minus-squareBaldProphet@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down4·11 months agoThat’s what voting against Trump looks like.
Have you ever seen a peaceful overthrow of a government before? I haven’t.
Czechoslovakia did it.
That’s about the only example I can think of.
They did? They just assumed control after a large majority was already dead.
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia was probably the only time in history that a state just voted to dissolve without violence.
Yeah, I’m not arguing with you, BUT…there was a ton of violence before, just not directly related. It’s a power vacuum by violence.
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I don’t mind the way if the people there can get some kind of progress going, while it’s wrong to condone a violent uprising.
Peaceful movement can of course turn into a self defense situation which is ethically understandable.
That’s what voting against Trump looks like.