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> There is no middle ground. Pause this slippery slope argument for a second. The current situation in Belarus: - Protestors are being imprisoned by unidenti
by DoingIsLearning 6y ago
> There is no middle ground.
Pause this slippery slope argument for a second.
The current situation in Belarus:
- Protestors are being imprisoned by unidentified agents in unidentified vehicles
- Protestors are being _tortured_ throughout nightly interrogations
- Protest _organizers_ have been kidnapped overnight and hanged from trees to get the OMON's point across.
This isn't a US politics disinformation twitter ping-ball discussion of who gets to sound the smartest in logical argumentation.
This is an actual dictatorship, with real people and real blood.
- im3w1l 6y agoThe reason people want guns and freedom of speech is because they anticipate these kinds of situations. With actual dictatorships and everything. Similar to poker, it rarely goes all the way to showdown. But the possibility of showdown still shapes everything.
- partyboat1586 6y agoIndeed. People in the US are a little complacent because democracy has been in place for enough generations to forget that Dictatorship is the default state.
- sofixa 6y agoSeems to work great in the US, where the nutjbobs with guns and "muh free speech" are at the forefront of fighting against democracy and defending the party and officials doing the most to harm it.
- angry_octet 6y agoExcept all the 'libertarian' and 2A open carry 'militia' are firmly on the side of jack-booted authoritatian police and 'border patrol' 200 miles from the border (or port of entry!). Just cosplay death squads and lynch mobs.