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People with guns don't stand much of a chance against people with armies. Sure armies can turn on an individual, but that just means that particular individual
by jjk166 6mo ago
People with guns don't stand much of a chance against people with armies. Sure armies can turn on an individual, but that just means that particular individual has lost power, and that power has been transferred to whatever new individual commands the loyalty of the many. It's not imaginary, it's emergent.
- esseph 6mo agoPeople vastly overestimate the power of armies. Trump has gotten shot once, almost twice. Shinzo Abe got murked by some pipes from the hardware store.
- mystraline 6mo ago[flagged]
- jjk166 6mo agoAnd how are the people who shot these politicians doing now? How about the US and Japanese governments? Clearly shooting a politician doesn't mean either that you gain their power or that the power structure they led evaporates.
- esseph 6mo agoMy point is that an Army can't protect someone that people really want to die.