• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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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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      4 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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        4 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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        4 months ago

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

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

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