Quoted for truth. There's a lot of violent revolution in the ancient world and *by far* the most common outcome is "everyone loses."https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1322735307377160194 …
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Wasn't USA born out of violent revolution?
Wars of independence against a foreign government across an ocean tend to be quite different from civil wars or mass civil unrest within a polity.
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Even then, I think it is fairly easy to argue that the United States was uncommonly fortunate in the outcome of our revolution in terms of having an intact country (albeit with rather less liberty for some). I wouldn't want to roll the dice again.
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In your initial retweet you didn't qualify the type of violent revolution you consider bad. Also, UK could hardly be called a foreign government, given it was the founder of the Colonies and most inhabitants came from it.
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And I think Romanians would not agree on the premise they should've stayed quiet for who knows how many more years under Ceausescu.
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Well, what about the civil war which I definitely think was a Good Thing (despite being horrible).
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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