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[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago

There's also a point here in how if you have to kill a bunch of people to fight a movement, and still lose, that means you're fighting a genuinely popular movement. But if it takes orders of magnitude less violence to fight a movement, and the movement fails, how popular was it to begin with?