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Yes, that’s the duty of every red-blooded American

You might be technically right, but there's also possibly a larger chance you'll end up dead if you don't comply, and I think most people are not prepared to make that sacrifice.

They’re eventually going to come for us all whether we resist or not (that’s just the nature of fascism), so it seems like an easy choice to me, but history tends to support your conclusion (though I hope we as a species are capable of learning from the past)

I'd argue history shows there are always those who keep fighting that make facist regimes impossible in the long term.

I believe that theory can be argued convincingly and tend to agree

Don't comply, maybe live to see freedom. Comply, live to die a captive another day.

Complying is like moving from the kitchen to the living room because the kitchen is on fire, then sitting down and pretending life is BAU.

You need to either fight the fire or GTFO, but pretending there is no fire will kill you all the same.

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