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0 pointsyongjik4y ago0 comments

> The only chance that women in the article will see any freedom again, is if she take up arms start shooting the people who say "you can't".

I wish Americans stopped viewing social change as a matter of shooting bad guys. The entire Afghanistan debacle is, in a sense, America giving people an endless supply of guns, saying "Can't you guys just shoot all the bad guys? Come on! We'll give you as much ammo as you want!"

Fat good it did anyone.

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Wowfunhappy4y ago

I think what GP meant is that the revolution needs to be initiated by the country's people. (Which, yes, would involve a lot more than a few people grabbing their guns.)

barelysapient4y ago

I think if you look at the history of the worlds current democracies you'll find that most came about through armed revolution.

America, for example, was armed by the French during their revolutionary war. I'd say that result was exceptional.

France's most recent armed revolution also resulted in representative state.

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