Quite honestly after seeing my fellow Americans I have zero confidence that if we went for regime change a) it would work, and b) if it did work we would be able to build anything better. It would almost certainly be worse.
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Narrator: oh ****
Remember Julius Caesar initially took dictatorial powers (allowed in roman law) for an initial 10 year term. Itās always by degrees. Later when he declared dictator for life was when he got got. And his support from the people never waned. It was an inside job, the deep state, if you will.
Sulla assumed dictatorial powers against the will of the people.
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RIP Willem Van Spronsen.
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NBZ is a troll.
He had a pretty strong base of support among the army, equites and senate though.
The question is really just whatās support? You need enough force to take useful organs of power, you need some elite support to fill out a government and run things without immediately empowering enemies, and you probably donāt want the whole country getting involved on any side, but beyond that you can likely live with indifference or ignorance or quiet annoyance from the vast majority of the people just fine.
This is apparently a really good book on the practicalities of coups, but Iāve never read it.
(Trumpās not doing a coup.)
Dumb poll and everyone who answered it is a moran.
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I canāt believe nobody thought to suggest a new law saying āhey cops, stop being such jerksā. Itās sooooooooooooo obvious
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Memes have taken over precise language thatās readily understood. Wtf does burn it down mean exactly?
Definitely the same mixed emotions after spending far too much time watching protest streamers over the past few days. Plenty of moments of love and hope from these crowds but still a clear total lack of leadership/cohesion. Part of me feels a duty to drive down and support these people right now but know thatās probably not the best use of my resources right now and could put myself and my family in serious danger of covid infection or worse. Seeing cops taking photos of everyone at the front lines right now and hearing stories of Ferguson leadersā mysterious 'suicides" after the fact has me shookā¦ Iād never heard about that before.
Went to amazon to purchase. āItem temporarily out of stockā. Oh snap.
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How much worse can it get than an occupying army declaring war on the citizens and reasserting their right to terrorize and murder nationwide? Threatening the families of elected officials and asserting themselves above the rule of law? While a global pandemic is going on and the government refuses to do anything but go on vacation and send more troops to brutalize the citizenry?
edit: This thread is much, much longer than 10 clips by now. About 150 last I checked.
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1266751520055459847
Well, one way it could get worse is that your descriptions could actually become accurate.
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The fact that you think theyāre not shows you donāt know what is happening right now.
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If your argument is āpeople should be happy to live in a country where the police can murder them at any time, terrorize their governments, and essentially replace the rule of law, because it could somehow get worse than thatā ā¦ 100% miss me with that.
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The only reason to make a case that āthings could get worse from the protestsā is in favor of the status quo.
What avenues do you think havenāt been tried that should be tried? Weāre fucking 50+ years out from the civil rights movement.
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Yes, this is clearly not about police tactics per se, but about a broken society thatās probably at least 70% racist and whose values the cops know they are enforcing and represent.
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