re: #200 Belafon

With 300M of us here, he can’t control us if we don’t let him. And laughing at him not only shows we’re still in charge, but any serious reaction by him would definitely cross into remove-him-from-office territory.

Old saying: One man with a machine gun can control a hundred without.

The issue being is the hundred could most certainly overwhelm the one. The issue is none of them want to die.

That’s why military training is so intense on following orders, because the standard reaction is “run.”

Think also of police with tear gas against protesters, despite overwhelming numbers of protesters. They could overwhelm police, but do not.