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clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I get your statement but it’s really overly violent, and honestly sounds kind of libertarian. More guns & more violence really will not solve anything. If you get violent all you do is justify violent means for your oppressors. In this day and age, there’s no winning a fight of violence against the government and groups you disagree with. There’s far better alternatives that we have. The benefit of capitalism is that it means the only fucking thing that works against the power structure is to scare them from losing control of their capital. I guarantee en-mass “voting with your wallet”, and literal voting, will have a much better effect than arming up.

Also, you’re free to call Nazis, Nazis. Nobody is stopping you.

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IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Capitalism has worked in the fascists’ favor, as capitalism is inherently fascist.

The rest is just platitudes that clearly haven’t worked, and the violence has already been committed by their side; mine is DEFENSIVE.

Sorry, but you do not understand who we are dealing with.

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Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Normally I would agree with you, but with the rise of violent rhetoric being espoused by the likes of Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Boebert. There is a consistent rise on both sides, though one definitely has a markedly larger proportion, saying that violence against voters from the other side of the aisle is justifiable. carnegieendowment.org/…/rise-in-political-violenc…

It would likely be imprudent to think that a social group who can condone the beliefs and behaviors of the likes of neo-Nazis, the KKK, and the Proud Boys, as well as support the active dismantling of historical education that is based in fact and objectivity would be incapable of they themselves succumbing to a mob mentality that led to mass violence. All you have to do is look at the Stanford Prison Experiment to understand just how fast a select group in control of messaging and communication can lead normally rational people down a path of wonton violence for a cause that was not actually their own.

“Voting with your wallet” barely even works anymore with most of the consumer goods being produced by 1 of like 12 companies that form corporate oligopolies over virtually every industry. Voting in the booths “works”, but the trend of conservative candidates just refusing to accept that they lost and whipping that same aforementioned group of voters into a tizzy could easily lead to some rather problematic situations that can easily snowball beyond where the unprepared are, well, prepared for.

It probably isn’t a bad idea to arm up, whether it is with actual weapons or weaponized knowledge. Knowing how to utilize incendiary devices or kitchen chemistry defensively is not a bad thing for rational, level-headed people to know. I’m not saying “arm up, a war is coming”, more like “the Boy Scouts have the motto ‘Be Prepared’ for a very good reason.”

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