politics

Uh, no?

Riots in France over unpopular political policies are so common that they're a meme. Saudi Arabia overthrew it's dictator via political violence. China, Russia, many others have had political violence on a massive scale.

Political violence is common. The only real difference is that--in theory--Americans have the tools to enforce regime change at home, should the citizenry choose to assert that ability. There are literally more guns than people (by a lot!) in the US, so our civil wars end up being some of the most bloody and brutal on the planet. (Roughly 2% of the entire US population died in battle in the US Civil War; US Civil War 2 would almost certainly be worse, since it wouldn't be limited solely to direct military engagements.)

Looks like this post triggered a lot of American Exceptionalism here on Lemmy.

You've really jumped the shark with this one.

...brother are you a teenager?

This reeks of teen insight. Possibly the least educated assertion I've read in a long time.

Do you know where we get the fucking word "Resistance"??

Its French.

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Handwaved away centuries of political ads nation based violence.

Political violence is quintessentially human and failing to acknowledge that puts other countries at an increased risk of being steamrolled by Authoritarian regimes as well.

I beg to differ.

Putin has been throwing people out of balconies and windows for a few decades.

Hitler murdered millions.

Mussolini had his own populace murdered based on their politics.

Saddam Hussein murdered thousands, along with Gaddafi.

China is doing this right now with tens of thousands.

Israel is as well.

I can go on and on. This is dumb fucking writing that is trying to ignore history and recent events. GTFO with this bullshit.

*Political violence is quintessentially American Conservatism

A lot of that historical violence has been directed at minorities, social groups, marginalized groups, Indigenous people, LGBTQ+, union workers, blacks, Hispanics, women

If you want to narrow it all down ... most of the American political violence, the majority of it over the past 200 years was driven by white Christian males who believe they are a ruling class and need to be on top overpowering everyone else for their own personal benefit .... usually with the lame excuse that it is God's will. And I honestly also don't believe it has anything to do with God or Christianity or even religion ... it's just a small entitled group of people who just want all the power, all the money and all the control ... you know the same jungle mentality of that one male monkey who wants all the bananas and all the females and be able to pound their chest and make everyone scared.

I'm Indigenous Canadian and this does not mean I want to jump over the political cliff and call for the end of all white Christian males ... I'm just pointing out the history ... and what I believe is that we can all coexist together without any one group dominating over another and everyone just living together equally - socially and economically.