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Re:How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:40PM (#23384255)
It was actually seeking to overthrows the government, and it was treason from the eyes of the British. If the British had won, likely every one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence would have been hanged or worse.

If you want to change the way things are inside the system vote, organize, protest. But actually seeking to overthrow the government is opening a whole can of very, very bad things.

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Re:How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by standardUser on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:28PM (#23384771)
Gay rights, women's rights, civil rights were all won by combating unjust power using every tool available, including violence. Oppressors don't self-limit the tools they'll use to maintain power. Neither can those who are oppressed.
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