• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    no government shall bare arms against its own citizens

    Is this some kind of quote? Because 90% of what all governments do is exactly that: using weapons against their own citizens.

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        24 hours ago

        Especially when both that city’s mayor and state governor explicitly do not want those troops there.

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      22 hours ago

      citizens are the government though. if they are not, its not democratic country.

      Still, there should be no need to even threaten citizens with violence and if there is, it should be resolved mutually instead of just oppressing the people into submission.

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        22 hours ago

        citizens are the government though.

        Did you mean that people in government are citizens? Because I’m a citizen of my country and not in the government.

        if they are not, its not democratic country

        Correct. The United States is not a democracy. It’s barely even a “representative democracy”.