• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    16 hours ago

    This is a historically illiterate reply. The French Revolution was enacted by organized political resistance, not random assassinations. As the author points out, such acts never achieve any substantial or lasting change.

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      14 hours ago

      I keep telling people here that you usually cannot cure a systemic issue with violence but they refuse to believe it.

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      16 hours ago

      The only recent-ish example I can think of that actually applies is Gavrilo Princip, and the consequences were mostly accidental.

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        14 hours ago

        Well I meant lasting positive change. This means building better systems—there’s just no other way to do it. Some assassinations have clearly altered the course of history but they didn’t really improve society.