American Militia Members. Where the hell are you? THIS is what you exist for and you are doing NOTHING!

Edit: I’ve only heard “defense against tyranny” as justification for these militias by these militia

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    Considering all anyone seems to produce here are news articles and blatant propaganda journals, I don’t think it’s worth my time to produce a peer reviewed level of detail.

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      I produced peer reviewed sources, news articles, primary sources, and more, and you produced none. It was worth my time, though, so if anyone wanders in they can learn, even if you’re determined not to.

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        You produced journals and books that are blatant propaganda. Not science or fact.

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          Not at all, I provided peer reviewed sources and primary accounts. You provided exactly nothing. If you’re going to throw a fit about sources even Wikipedia uses, the least you could do is find a source of your own.

          Or, here me out, you could stop trying to fight facts that are uncomfortable for you to learn. Much better for you in the long run, I’ll say.

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            Those sources might be good enough for you, but I assessed at best two of your sources to be credible.

            For the record, Wikipedia is NOT considered a credible source by the scientific community. I’d have been laughed at if I even tried to use that in a paper, which I did when I saw you use it.

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              Wikipedia isn’t a source, Wikipedia references sources. I frequently use Wikipedia links instead of the source itself because it’s western controlled, and therefore less likely to be seen as pro-Communist “propaganda” by people like yourself. Either way, though, the sources I linked are still sound, you’ve done nothing to disprove them and have provided no sources of your own, other than numbers you admitted to have found “on your own,” ie they came to you in a dream.

              Out of curiousity, why are you continuing this conversation? You’re only further making my argument look better. Is it for self-satisfaction? A genuine wish to debate? Then why not bring at least one source, or try to counter anything that I’ve said. As it stands, based on the upvotes and downvotes, you’re the only one being laughed at here.

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                Because I’m hoping people read this and have the wherewithal to actually review the validity of your BS Wikipedia links before they go down a rabbit hole of starvation and misery.

                Also you may want to re-read your 2/3 link again for some of the other stats there, and then verify how the polling was done. That was already way more work than I intended to put into this.

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                  Well, seems like your intentions have backfired, and by not putting in any effort, even if you were right, you ended up making my points look more valid. I do recommend people read and look into my sources, hopefully your advice to do so helps create more Socialists.

                  Yes, I know how the 2/3rds data was gathered, and I am aware of the other countries listed there. It doesn’t invalidate my point, and the data is still sound.

                  On one final question, what do you mean by a rabbit hole of “starvation and misery?” Countries adopting Socialism got more food secure after doing so. Take the PRC, for example, which recently eliminated extreme poverty in a Socialist economy. If 15 million people per year are dying due to poverty, sounds like we need to move beyond Capitalism and into Socialism.

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                    We don’t agree on much, but I am not against the kind of socialism China employs. The PRC is a great example of a hybrid between socialism and capitalism.

                    Their party system is a farce dictatorship and the level of surveillance they conduct on their people, the social credit system, etc. are blatant violations of human nature, and I can’t support that. But the concept of a their mix of the two systems is excellent. But that is not actual communism by any stretch. That’s what I would call a perfect hybrid system that I was eluding to earlier.