Unfortunately, because the French gave up their rights to own weapons that are useful for defense against would-be oppressors, they stand no chance against their oppressors.
We see this time and time again, humongous protests, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, always in areas populated by predominately unarmed sheep, always with no resulting effect on policy. Standing in the street screaming is no different than posting on the Internet. It can help to spread the word and bring awareness to your cause, but ultimately, if you have no actual means of gaining power, you lose.
An armed society is a polite society for more than one reason; you don't see these giant protests, peaceful or violent, in areas predominately populated by armed citizens. Every place in the US that sees these giant protests is largely unarmed (New York, California, blue cities with very low semi-automatic rifle ownership numbers, etc.). "Adults" without the means to defend themselves and their communities are only adults insofar as they're permitted them to be.
@pkvi you should think about heading to the US, the writing is on the wall - you await inevitable disaster in Hong Kong - get real and get here asap
Exactly. If the policy was so unpopular that it caused 100000+ people to take to the streets, whoever implemented it probably knew it was going to be devicive/unpopular beforehand, and knew that people were going to run around screaming about it once it was in place. Macron removed the citizenship of un vaxxed French because he knew it would get a rise; he's basically trolling IRL. They aren't surprised that people find their edicts to be totalitarian; they aren't stupid, authoritarianism was the whole point. The whole "just stop complying" LARP is the same imo. Just ask pot heads from the 80s and 90s how "just not complying" with drug laws worked out.
Unfortunately, because the French gave up their rights to own weapons that are useful for defense against would-be oppressors, they stand no chance against their oppressors.
We see this time and time again, humongous protests, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, always in areas populated by predominately unarmed sheep, always with no resulting effect on policy. Standing in the street screaming is no different than posting on the Internet. It can help to spread the word and bring awareness to your cause, but ultimately, if you have no actual means of gaining power, you lose.
An armed society is a polite society for more than one reason; you don't see these giant protests, peaceful or violent, in areas predominately populated by armed citizens. Every place in the US that sees these giant protests is largely unarmed (New York, California, blue cities with very low semi-automatic rifle ownership numbers, etc.). "Adults" without the means to defend themselves and their communities are only adults insofar as they're permitted them to be.
@pkvi you should think about heading to the US, the writing is on the wall - you await inevitable disaster in Hong Kong - get real and get here asap
Exactly. If the policy was so unpopular that it caused 100000+ people to take to the streets, whoever implemented it probably knew it was going to be devicive/unpopular beforehand, and knew that people were going to run around screaming about it once it was in place. Macron removed the citizenship of un vaxxed French because he knew it would get a rise; he's basically trolling IRL. They aren't surprised that people find their edicts to be totalitarian; they aren't stupid, authoritarianism was the whole point. The whole "just stop complying" LARP is the same imo. Just ask pot heads from the 80s and 90s how "just not complying" with drug laws worked out.
On the other hand, never comply.
Oh of course, of course lol.
It will take more than that alone is what I'm saying