• WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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      Yeah, it’s not like your country has based its entire identity for two centuries on its spirit of violently resisting tyranny against great odds

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      People really love criticizing the US and fair enough, but man it’s tiring seeing people lambasting the US for not violently resisting when we actively are and it’s just being suppressed by the media. Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch we can’t storm congress, but we’re doing a whole fuckload despite that…

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          Well since local media aren’t covering them and many foreign ones step in line to not upset lord trump, the only way to get examples is to attend them.

          The cities he sent military to were the cities that had largest protests.

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            Yeah, that’s true. A lot of what happened didn’t get the coverage it deserved, and people outside those cities only got a filtered version of events. Sending military into places where people were just exercising their right to protest definitely raised tensions instead of easing them.

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              So, guaranteed death? USA will not use billy clubs and shields to knock down protesters. They will SHOOT and kill.

              I’m not dying because we have 80 million retarded cunts here.

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                I get what you’re saying it’s scary how fast things can escalate here. The way protests are handled in the U.S. is very different compared to other countries, and the risk is real. You’re not wrong for wanting to protect yourself.”

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                People are already DYING, what bodycount can your conscience hold?

                Oh and did you miss all the students who were shot and killed in Nepal? You can find videos of them bleeding out in the streets with people desperately trying to save them, kids dying in school uniforms as they protest, but sure billy clubs.

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                  Dude, there’s no way you can argue your way into making someone feel bad for not wanting to risk their life in a violent resistance against their own government.

                  That’s a choice every person have to make for themselves. You don’t know them. You don’t know their situation.

                  You seriously need to take a step back and sit down.

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                  Are you just going for a shock reaction, or are you seriously trying to neg other people into dying for you?

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                    I’m trying to convince Americans to do something to stop their fascists from killing people. I’m not there, I can’t support in any other way.

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                Setting things in fire, erecting barricades, actively fighting authorities and creating chaos, making it impossible to ignore. For examples see the Maiden revolution in Ukraine, Hong Kong protests a few years ago, or any Tuesday afternoon in France.

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                  Orange revolution and Euromaidan in Ukraine were peaceful protests the government responded violently to them which energized more people.

                  In Poland Solidarity also was peaceful and the one that created violence was the government.

                  Historically peaceful protests like the above are more effective, because more people are willing to join them.

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        No your not. Your volunteering to go into the street to be rounded up by the cops. It’s the stupidest fucking thing. You literally have the equivalent of the printing Press giving to every person and you all think it’s easier to organize people to publicly show up in a town three states over then it is to use get those people to use the propaganda machine to spread a message.

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          I get your point social media really is a powerful tool for spreading messages and organizing. But public protests also have a symbolic impact that online spaces can’t always match. Sometimes people feel like showing up physically is the only way to make leaders pay attention

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          Thank you, this is a wonderful example of exactly the kind of ignorance I was talking about. I appreciate the support!

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      Yes, for example the Gurkhas are from Nepal.

      Or did you mean the regular army? They put down a major Maoist insurgency over the decade of 1996-2006, and have remained a significant force in Nepal. Historically they’ve played a major role in power transitions, such as the Rana era from 1846-1951 when military officer Jung Bahadur Rana overthrew the monarchy and established a hereditary prime ministership, and then again in King Mahendra’s 1960 coup when the monarchy took power until the 1990s.

      But fortunately they’ve not been as prominently involved at playing “kingmaker” as the militaries of many other South Asian countries. They tend to act as a stabilizing force for whoever gets power by other means. I guess we’ll see if that pattern continues to the current unrest.

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        Exactly that’s what makes Nepal’s military role so interesting compared to its neighbors. They’ve intervened at pivotal moments in history, but not in a way that consistently dominates politics like we’ve seen in Pakistan or Myanmar. It’ll be telling whether they continue to act as stabilizers or if current unrest pushes them into a more decisive role again.