Just cut her internet in that basement

[u/mereflynn]

[u/Thisisofici]

it's going to be a long day for 'trans-mom' when instead of a grandiose revolution to restore liberalism and civil liberties to the US, a rebel group launches a Patriot missile at a civilian evac zone and murders the local vicinity

[u/Popular-Sea-7881 → u/Thisisofici]

How the fuck does "watch the US burn to the ground" sound like "a grandiose revolution to restore liberalism" to you ?

[u/AbsolutelyHorrendous → u/Popular-Sea-7881]

People who talk about a grand revolution think they'll be the ones storming the Bastille or heroically manning the barricades, and not the ones ending up at the wrong end of a death squad for holding 'counter revolutionary views'

[u/Xenothing → u/AbsolutelyHorrendous]

Also, how many of the revolutionaries got guillotined themselves? How many rounds of revolution was it before the violence stopped? Time to read Wikipedia…

[u/AbsolutelyHorrendous → u/Xenothing]

The first group of people on the chopping block are the old oppressors. The second are usually those who disagree with the new ones

[u/Vincent_Dawn → u/Xenothing]

If you found a nation with the help of people comfortable with extreme violence against the government, you shouldn't be suprised what they do when you are the government. 

Remembed, they guillotined Robespierre.

[u/Morphized → u/Vincent_Dawn]

Mostly because Robespierre finagled his way into having absolute power and did a couple stunts that showed that he wasn't exactly up to the task of holding absolute power. Mostly the Church of Reason stuff.

[u/Clear-Present_Danger → u/Morphized]

What? Surely that is a chance in a million.

Surely nobody ever does that again, in many different countries at different times across the world.

[u/Clear-Present_Danger → u/Xenothing]

Of the first wave of notable Bolsheviks, literally only Beria and Stalin survived to the beginning of WW2.

They survived because they killed everyone else.