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Yeah, on that violent revolution thing. I've been thinking about it alot for the last few years, and then it dawned on me. 6 Jan 2021. The violent revolution

Yeah, on that violent revolution thing. I've been thinking about it alot for the last few years, and then it dawned on me. 6 Jan 2021. The violent revolution will always need a leader. In a democracy, that leader will establish some level of political success. These statements derive directly from the definitions. So what we need to be on the lookout for is a political leader who normalizes mobs and violence, and quasi-political groups/associations which further encourage it. Jan 6 2021 Proud Boys QAnon If you forgive the Goodwin, the example is developments originating in Germany prior to WWII. See for example Kristallnacht, Nov 1938, Vienna, Austria, and the "spontaneous" mobs responsible for large amounts of the violence

fundad 5y ago
Yes and many state houses were attacked on Jan 6 the weeks leading up to that, people closed a state legislature. Combine those and public schools with rising violence at private-sector workplaces (YouTube, VTA, clerks shot dead over masks) The revolution is here in the form of workplace violence. Big employers are actually afraid to comment for fear of looking biased against the GOP
notreallyserio 5y ago
Jan 6th could have been so much worse if the President had merely asked, that's how close we got. The pieces were in place and one word, perhaps "go" or "now", would have been enough to cause substantially more injuries and deaths.