• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      21 hours ago

      Armed minorities are harder to oppress.

      Organized armed minorities make governments afraid.

      Make no mistake, this is yet another message, “we do not care about you or your struggles”. Listen when they tell you they won’t protect you.

      • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        5 hours ago

        thats probably the reason why they were so afraid of the civil rights movement, especially with communism so fresh people might want to illict help from soviets.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 hours ago

      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”