• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What a stupid question.

    Undoubtedly, violence would solve America’s divisions- but is it the best way to do so? The real questions are, how long would that take, who would ultimately be the losers, and would it even be “America” when it all ends?

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      7 months ago

      The Congressional Republicans and their Fox News swallowing ilk, who have all decided they love Russia so much, should simply move there.

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          7 months ago

          That’s because commoners were united against elites. Roughly half of us are convinced the elites would love to give the rest of us more of their wealth if only big daddy government would relax those pesky taxes and regulations. Oh, and that every bad thing that happens is because we don’t pray in schools.

          • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            7 months ago

            i think it’s more like roughly 10% believe that because they’re stupid. Roughly 15-20% believe that they will be rich:tm: and the rest don’t care or agree.

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          7 months ago

          There has been quite some history between the revolution and the current labor rights… specifically five changes in political system including four republics and two empires. The first republic was probably less ideal than you imagine.

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        7 months ago

        Basically, one side believes that they should be allowed to kill anyone who disagrees with them, and the other side believes in the “excise the tumor” approach (use force now to remove the militant extremists and fascists to prevent their proganda from radicalizing more people and making the problem worse).

        Both would technically be correct just by reducing the population of one side or the other, I guess. Can’t disagree if you’re dead.

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      7 months ago

      That’s not the question, the question was “Would you agree that force may be needed to course-correct” rather than “could it solve division”.