Comment on Boy, 15, given official warning after saluting as neo-Nazis marched through Ballarat
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 11 months agoWe live in a democracy do u have so little faith in the people of society that u think a majority will support such violence? A government is defined as the power holding a monoply on violence within a region. Either the government will stop the violence since they hold the monoply. Or the government is committing the violence in which case it would be a democratic decision and we fall back to the do u have such little faith in ur fellow human that such a government would be ellected.
How does banning speach and symbols prevent houses being firebombes schools being shot up churches masacred its not like the people who do such things respect the law about not saying shit, they gonna say it anyways even if it is illegal.
The USA has plenty of fucked people who go around saying that sort of shit proudly. They dont have the sort of violence u speak of. They got a gun problem not a nazi problem us aussies pretty much solved the gun problem years ago.
520@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yes. Have you not paid attention to the last few years? How easily swayed people were by lies? To the point of committing violence and treason?
We as a populace are not immune to the tactics of the likes of Hitler. It is complacency to think otherwise. Especially when recent years have overwhelmingly demonstrated similar tactics to work incredibly effectively on the American people
What happens when they are the government? The government is made of people, either hired by, or voted for by, other people. People who are every bit as susceptible to misinformation and other tricks as other people.
It allows police to go up the chain, deal with not only the pawns, but the ones getting people to commit these acts. The recruiters being dealt with would absolutely prevent violence.
Oh no?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65540412
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/deadly-jacksonville-shooting-is-latest-racist-attack-amid-rise-in-hate-crimes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atlanta_spa_shootings
rainynight65@feddit.de 11 months ago
Just add a link to the Capitol invasion while you’re at it.