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ZeroX91 posted...

Whatever you say buddy. Im improving my neighborhood and thats all one individual can do on their own.
Coward is your word by the way, never judged just said what i would be doing if i lived in saudi arabia (or whereever)

If you could keep living there. But what about refugees who no longer have homes because they've been burned or bombed, and their family, friends and neighbours are all in the same boat? Who are being chased by an army or a militia that will very likely torture or kill them if it catches up with them? Who've had to abandon their livelihood because their farm is under constant attack, and who have no safety net to help them survive? There are millions of people who are in situations like this.

One of my friends was an Ethiopian girl who, at the age of 14, came home one day to find her parents being loaded into the back of an army truck by a government death squad (she never saw them again) because they were Christians. My first sister in law came to live with us because it became too dangerous to stay in her village in rural Lagos state in Nigeria, since large gangs of armed robbers prowled the countryside with total impunity.

I'm flummoxed by fuckwit Internet tough guys, living securely in safe, comfortably distant places, who have bonehead fantasies about hypothetical "armed resistance" as if Star Wars was actual, real life. If you're not one of those smug shits who pontificate about how vulnerable civilians should be fighting with sticks and stones against assault rifles and ground attack aircraft, then I apologise.

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