• alapakala@quokk.au
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    And it worked, historically, and fictitiously.

    You can’t vote your way out imperialism, you need to feverish oppose all forms of oppression. Whether at the ballot, and at a deathcamp.

    #Landback when?

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      It did not work fictionally. Nobody supports rebels in a democracy. They are rooted out of their communities and punished as terrorists. Only when it was no longer a democracy did the rebellion work. The same is true historically. If the people being oppressed can vote for their rulers, violently attacking them instead always fails.

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          Yet Myanmar ,

          Myanmar wasn’t a democracy.

          Thailand ,

          This prime minister was removed by the court, not by violence.

          Nepal , and

          This is the only example you gave of a democratically elected official who was violently overthrown. I said that if you violently overthrow a democratically elected tyrant, the majority will simply democratically install a new tyrant. That’s exactly what happened in Bangladesh, with the same party being elected after it was violently removed. Nepal seems to be a vanishingly a rare counterexample. We’ll see how long that lasts.

          Spain uprooted their oppressors violently without democracy.

          Spain also wasn’t a democracy.

          South Korea kept it’s democracy by taking the tyrant violently .

          Also removed by the court, not by rebel violence.

          It just seems the disconnect is plain old complacency.

          No, if you violently remove a democratically elected official, that official will be democratically replaced with more of the same. Violence doesn’t magically change voters’ minds to agree with you.