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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused and supported unlawful government. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What's unlawful? You voted them in. Bearing arms against the government is unlawful. Anyone who thinks they can make a stand and shoot a few people to stand up to the government will find themselves arrested quickly and with all their neighbours supporting their arrest.

There is no amount of force that could reasonably be brought that would topple the government.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I did not vote them in. AND they were elected and swore to uphold the Constitution, and they have broken that vow.

BTW, bearing arms against the government is not only legal, it's constitutional.

The idea of the right to revolt was famously articulated in the Declaration of Independence, which declared that “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”

The Declaration went on to argue that “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's just inherently not true, and something that medieval serfs also probably heard a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's what most failed governments said. Nothing was ever taken without force.

Ask the native Americans. The Seminoles were badass in Florida, governer kept sending in soldiers to move them, Indians kept killing them all. So many the governor finally said to leave them the fuck alone. One of the only tribes left in Florida. My ancestors were pushed from their land on the trail of tears.