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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by miloignis on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:41AM (#44234175)
You think the lesson that the president of a democratic country is amassing power and becoming less Democratic is to just go all the way and remove democracy?

I'll additionally note that China has famously not handled some of its major protests well and uh, calls in the military.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:54AM (#44234734)
> China has famously not handled some of its major protests well and uh, calls in the military

Agreed. I'm saying if we're accepting this as precedent, a Presidential republic is not a stable system. We either reject the military being called in to quell protests. Or we accept it as precedent and revise our system of government to remove that power from the madness of crowds.

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