cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7802418
Don’t forget about the Irish unification of 2024!
- rotopenguin ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English6•11 months ago
Political power akctually flows from the collimator-matrix of a phaser.
But a gun? Puh-lease.
love the technobabble
- AchillesUltimate ( @AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol ) 5•11 months ago
That’s actually where democracy came from. When guns came along, it became extremely cheap and easy to turn every random peasant into a soldier. This meant that you essentially always had to have the will of the people on your side.
- Kidplayer_666 ( @Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
Not necessarily. Prussia managed to be “an army with a country” and be despotic
- Justfollowingorders1 ( @Justfollowingorders1@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
I guess hypothetically it doesn’t take long to teach someone how to use a gun, but based on my interactions with people who refuse to touch a gun or want to destroy any current legal firearm ownership legislation - teaching them to be proficient with a firearm will be an entirely different ballgame.