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    Then you get your single shot rifle and storm the the king’s palace with it, against a bunch of people with single shot rifles, kill them all, kill a king, all his family, and thus establish a military goverment. Because it’s apparently it’s 19th century now.

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      Then you get your single shot rifle and storm the the king’s palace with it, against a bunch of people with single shot rifles, kill them all, kill a king, all his family

      Sounds good

      thus establish a military goverment.

      Nah, I just defeated the military. I would prefer a less authoritarian system

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        When you killed everyone in a coup, you are by definition a new military. You might prefer less authoritarian system now, but all your friends who are running around with rifles trying to do a coup are in it for power, it’s just how the selection process goes, for everyone bright eyed idealist who will immediately relinquish his absolute authority that he just won by fighting a civil war, there will be 10 people who fought in civil war to get this absolute authority.
        We know that, because actually I deceived you earlier, it’s not 19th century now, and we already saw how that happened. And also, both technologies and situations are different now

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          When you killed everyone in a coup

          I didn‘t kill „everybody“. I killed the king, his family and his guards and maybe his ministers or generals

          you are by definition a new military

          No, I am a member of one of many militias

          all your friends who are running around with rifles trying to do a coup are in it for power

          Not all of them, but I understand what you mean

          for everyone bright eyed idealist who will immediately relinquish his absolute authority that he just won by fighting a civil war, there will be 10 people who fought in civil war to get this absolute authority.

          Yes. Thats how war works.

          both technologies and situations are different now

          Exactly

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            I didn‘t kill „everybody“. I killed the king, his family and his guards and maybe his ministers or generals

            Not how civil wars work unfortunately

            No, I am a member of one of many militias

            Which makes you a part of the military power of the new rule. So yeah.

            Yes. Thats how war works.

            Yes. That’s my point actually.

            Exactly

            Ok, but that’s worse. You do get how that’s worse, right?