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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agoThere 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-up0·23 days agoThe 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-up0·23 days agoThe US is just exceptionally good at being a dictatorship.
minus-squareMangioneDontMiss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agopart of the problem is this absurdly naive optimism everyone has. people need to start being more fucking pessemistic and angry.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agoOn the contrary, people are pessimistic as hell. Source: this thread.
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agoYeah, really if anything we need optimistic and angry
minus-squareMangioneDontMiss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-223 days agothose don’t go hand in hand. ever.
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.