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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up47arrow-down1·3 天前There are several historical examples where a dictator tells the military to shoot civilians, they say no, and the regime collapses. https://bsky.app/profile/gowder.io/post/3lr3wsvffds2l
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up57arrow-down1·3 天前The world is also filled with governments that ordered the military to shoot civilians and are still comfortably in power. No country is immune to authoritarianism, the US is not exceptional.
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 天前The US is just exceptionally good at being a dictatorship.
minus-squareMangioneDontMiss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down7·3 天前part of the problem is this absurdly naive optimism everyone has. people need to start being more fucking pessemistic and angry.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 天前On the contrary, people are pessimistic as hell. Source: this thread.
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 天前Yeah, really if anything we need optimistic and angry
minus-squareMangioneDontMiss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down9·edit-23 天前those don’t go hand in hand. ever.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 天前If that were true, no revolution would have succeeded, ever. You don’t win if you don’t believe you can.
There are several historical examples where a dictator tells the military to shoot civilians, they say no, and the regime collapses.
https://bsky.app/profile/gowder.io/post/3lr3wsvffds2l
The world is also filled with governments that ordered the military to shoot civilians and are still comfortably in power. No country is immune to authoritarianism, the US is not exceptional.
The US is just exceptionally good at being a dictatorship.
part of the problem is this absurdly naive optimism everyone has. people need to start being more fucking pessemistic and angry.
On the contrary, people are pessimistic as hell. Source: this thread.
Yeah, really if anything we need optimistic and angry
those don’t go hand in hand. ever.
If that were true, no revolution would have succeeded, ever. You don’t win if you don’t believe you can.