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  • @Daft_ish
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    18 months ago

    It’s exactly how this conversation started. Revolution isn’t about indiscriminate killing.

    • @Eldritch
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      18 months ago

      No one said they were. You are arguing a straw man. I simply said that they are indiscriminate. The French revolution sent 23 children to the guillotine. Many more dying imprisoned. Russia sent millions to the gulags to die for simple dissent. Not to mention revolutionaries killing tzar Nicholas’s entire family. Including his young daughter, Anastasia.

      They always start out by targeting specific things. But it always gets out of hand. Targeting many more people in the end than is necessary or deserving. When you rule by revolution. You never have peace. Always watching your back waiting for the revolution to unseat you. Your enemy list constantly growing.

      • @Daft_ish
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        Whoa whoa whoa, I have no interest in arguing with you, buddy. This was the OP

        That’s fine with me, I don’t have any interest in “let’s just kill a bunch of people” as an ideology. It’s objectively wrong.

        Colloquially eat the rich or gulliotines are terms for revolution. The ideology behind revolution isn’t “let’s just kill a bunch of people.”

        It’s “the ballot or the bullet” and like it or not the US was founded on it.