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derefr on Sept 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying f...

This presumes a minority suppressing a majority. The situation in China is a majority suppressing a minority. What would that look like in the US? I would assume it’d involve popular and congressional consent to use SLBM decapitation strikes against “rebel” leaders. No need to advance into contested territories.

kkggyftfxdfg on Sept 20, 2019 [–]

This pretty much already happens but the police are used instead. They just shoot a few protestors and the media frames it as "they were resisting".

Look at how fast "good guys with guns fighting the government" got shut down when the BPP started carrying.

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