Push pacifism. Speak softly while carrying a big stick.
Other people will get the message.
Everyone shouts "molon labe", and those are the ones also making jokes about "I lost my guns in a boating accident." Because they don't have the backbone to use them in the event of an upscaled version of the 2020 riots or invasion or mass confiscation.
The subculture itself must create an atmosphere and perception that people are peaceful, but that the armed public writ large should not be fucked with.
FAFO taken to the level of religious fervor, or political ideology.
Do it right, and the message is written on the wall for the regime and they start walking back a lot of the bullshit policies. Career politicians, the selectees, start seeing what they have to support in word and policy action, in order to keep the public complacent and docile.
You cannot project peace if you are unwilling to employ violence. I'll go another step further and posit that even attempting to project peace before the violence has happened is a lost cause. I get what you are saying but unless there are actual consequences nothing will ever change. Why would it?
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Have an upvoat.
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Do you really have to ask?
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I have multiple answers.
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You want to think for yourself, or should I do your thinking for you?
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Incorrect. It has nothing to do with weasel words.