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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by throwawayqqq11 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:56AM (#36929888)
Do you know the last successful, citizen-only driven revolution? I would guess the french revolution ~1790 and it was a bloodbath. Today, the military technology has extended the power gap so much, that chopping heads off is no option for eg. north koreans without support from the outside.

I think a violent revolution would only tighten the surveilance state.

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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by willcipriano on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:05AM (#36930783)
The ven diagram of people who tell me that we can't possibly overthrow the government contrasted with people who say January 6th was a threat to democracy is essentially a circle.
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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by camgunz on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:39AM (#36931042)
We overthrow the government every two years.
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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by realityking on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:20AM (#36930905)
I don‘t think those two statements are at odds at all. Consider that the Jan 6th insurrections were trying to keep the then current president, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, in power. That‘s about as far from a citizen‘s only revolution as it could be.
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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by mistermann on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:00AM (#36931815)
FFS, change the intent.

What is it about this topic that renders people unable to think rationally? Imagine if software was written with this quality of thinking.

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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by PrimeMcFly on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:52PM (#36935833)
> Imagine if software was written with this quality of thinking.

Windows 95 startup music plays

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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by mistermann on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:18PM (#36937493)
One difference: Windows improved.
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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by throwawayqqq11 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:01AM (#36952127)
Disagree x 2.

overthrowing the goverment via democratic means is an option too.

The circle of ppl seeing the bogaloos as idiots, preferably nowhere near any position of power is much larger.

Very distorted protortions.

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Re:How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits by prepend on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:28AM (#36930963)
I guess it depends on what you mean by citizen-only and successful.

How about Bolshevik? Or Cuba? Or Vietnam? Or China?

If you consider the French Revolution successful (that didn’t work out so well) then I guess you can say the Sudan revolution was successful as we now have South Sudan. Or Libya was successful as Qaddafi is still dead.

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