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Is extending the life of capitalism really considered harm reduction? I bet more people suffer in the long run with no healthcare and constant wars.
What do you propose we do about it? This isn't the 1800s where we fight with muskets. The U.S. military is the most advanced military in all of history.
No government in history has ever survived 3.5% of their population in active defiance against them. They still rely on us for food and supplies and while the government has crazy advanced weapons that has always been the case throughout history. There have been periods of time where the government had guns while its citizens had pitchforks and the citizens still were able to bring about change. The imbalance of weaponry has always been there between a government and its citizens throughout history. Today we don't have pitchforks we have guns like AR15s and they have drones but we are the ones who build the drones with materials that we mined and manufactured. Their weaponry has gotten more advanced but so has ours, but as always we have the masses.
Only if they keep making people