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Calls to violence are unacceptable. This is irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric. Society is not so broken as to justify violent revolution. This will not make any living person's life better. Participate in your local government. If you must, move somewhere with laws that better align with your values, or where you have a better chance of driving the change you want to see. Violence is not the answer.

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Technically he's right. Land conflicts between large groups of people have typically been solved by violence throughout history. But good luck getting a population with strong passports and $50k GDP per capita to revolt. If this was any time before WW2 the drums of war would definitely have been beating though

The comment is rightfully flagged now but there was nothing correct about it. It was a clear call to violence, not a warning. That’s unacceptable.

Your interpretation is a distortion of history. Nations go to war for land, not the populace of functional societies. The danger in this rhetoric is that it assumes our system of government has failed, which it hasn’t. The only threat is exactly this type of apathy.

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