The arming was (and remains) mainly about keeping the US settler garrison empowered to carry out indigenous eviction, and keeping non-white populations under control. Not protecting from a tyrannical government.
You can see that when those groups did try to arm themselves, such as the Black panthers or the American Indian Movement, laws were passed and repression carried out to disarm them.
Highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded, the disarming history of the second amendment for more on this. You can find the audiobook on torrents.
If this took place in one of the west's enemy countries, we'd be hearing about it for a decade. Since it's the US tho, it'll be forgotten in a few days.
The police representative blandly spouting copaganda and saying how much the LAPD cares about safeguarding lives, while a protestor is currently getting hit with batons and run over by horses, is the most US thing I've ever seen.
It's mainly just because it has so little dev that I'd like it to be considered alpha software. I've been too busy working on other things lately, and ideally it'd need a full-time dev.
No, you can't just rewrite the definition of democracy
Interestingly, not even the ancient greeks would consider what modern-day western states are, as democracies. Both Aristotle and Plato considered any system based on elections to be undemocratic oligarchies, since only the wealthy have the money to finance campaigns or the prestige to win the popularity contest.
They rightly considered democracy as meaning rule by the poor, which is the opposite of modern day bourgeois democracy.
The US corporate-survellance state already does. If you're living in New Zealand, according to here, your country's entire social media infrastructure is US owned and controlled.
France: Imperializing and committing atrocities in Vietnam, Algeria, and much of Africa for decades. Has strong relationship with the US and Israel. Votes with US and goes along with all its wars.
Algeria: No relationship with Israel. Votes against genocide.
Dang I forgot about that one.