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Doesn't require violence. See South Korea.

And not all coups are violent. Eg. EU is putting up with Orban in Hungary at the moment. Poland was a narrow miss.

But it was going to be violent. The to-be-deposed SK president had plans to use the SK Army to seize power, and even had Special Forces sent to the SK Parliament -- they just didn't really know what was going on, and weren't keen on shooting at their own Congress

I think that's a stretch?

Public protest is non-violent, but a solid step up from writing letters.

And public protests can just be ignored. Tell me, if you had absolute control of the government and military and people didn’t like what you did and asked you to stop nicely with signs and kumbaya circles, would you stop?

I’m tired of people so resistant to fighting back they’d rather just get walked on.

I'm tired of people so convinced they're right that they're ready to shoot all the people who disagree with them.

There's a good reason we set things up so that no one individual has absolute control. We've tried that. It's not great.

The people who disagree with me have the full government and might of the US military and infinite money and resources. These aren’t equivalent things.

Advocating legal pushback and resistance.

These do not imply violence.

Don’t put words in my mouth. I am not advocating in violence. I never have.

Perhaps "if you catch my drift" was meant to imply something other than words you couldn't publicly say?

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