• oce 🐆
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    4 months ago

    Sounds like a similar argument to how christofascists justify owning military weapons. It’s very disturbing from a European point of view.

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      224 months ago

      The countries with nukes get permanent seats on the UN Security Council.

      Maybe once the US has been around for a few more centuries it’ll be different. in the meantime, if the crazies are armed you should be too.

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        14 months ago

        That’s military not civilians, it seems justified as long as there are authoritarian regimes with imperialist ideas. Completely unrelated to civilians having military weapons. Unless you’re saying civilians should have nukes too.

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        84 months ago

        Seems Ukrainian stopped it pretty well without having civilians carrying military weapons outside of military duty.

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          104 months ago

          Not true at all. Ukraine was handing out AKs like candy to any citizen willing to fight for several days before the invasion.

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              No, you said Ukraine fought Russia back without arming their civilian populace, then tried to walk it back by saying they were expecting an invasion. Yeah, no kidding. But the fact of the matter is that they did exactly that. They handed out full auto rifles and held bomb making classes for the public. Ordinary people fought back, and a rifle behind every bush was indeed critical to pushing Russia back.

              Yes, it is absolutely true that Ukraine fought Russia by having ordinary citizens fighting back with military weapons.

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                  24 months ago

                  No, they were given assault rifles, while not being inducted into the military. That makes them civilians in every sense of the word, and not in the military. Civilians have always fought in wars. That doesn’t make them part of the military.

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            24 months ago

            Because they were expecting a foreign military invasion, it still is military duty.

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              54 months ago

              Nope. A civilian fighting in a war does not make them part of the military. It makes them a civilian fighting in a war.

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      104 months ago

      If you think arming yourself because there are organized fascists in the country is a similar argument to fascists wanting guns to do fascism you’re a fascist and nothing less.

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        14 months ago

        Ah, didn’t know you would consider most of EU and the developed world to be fascist, thanks for the insult.

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          44 months ago

          You would have been the worst kind of fence sitter right up until the germans boarded in your house. You are a fascist.