There is no practical path for armed revolution succeeding in the united states, which i would contend as obvious. Yet, there all those risks, or even arguable eventualities that you detail there, and those need to be taken all the more seriously if there is no practical way forward. I think one thing, one way to nfram this is that negativey is much easier to both imagine and enact than doing something constructive or positive. To use a aresonant term, it's a lot less cmodifiable and like, easily put on, you know, instogram profiles or bad ass posters than just toting some gun. And that's, that's really hard, right?
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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