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I don't think pacifists should be arming up and shooting anyone. I think people who cling to their guns and talk about fighting for freedom need to nut up or shut up (and I'm fine with the latter, just shut up already).
I think this is naive. Violence is an incredibly effective tool at degrading organizational capacity, destroying institutional memory, and quelling public opposition.
When you're dealing with ICE agents who can cavalierly execute civilians in public, I would love all three of those things to befall them, because I don't want an organization with the capacity, the knowledge, and the public platform to execute my neighbors.
But insurgent violence comes with enormous personal risks, it requires professional training, and it rarely produces tangible results in a single lifetime (especially the lifetime of a militant insurgent). So I'm certainly not going to ask people to stick their necks out.
I just get tired of people posting TikToks in Camo Cosplay, pretending they're part of some Last Line of Defense Against Tyranny. You're bad liars. No serious person takes the 2nd amendment seriously as a political deterrent.
The systems are the people. And when you kick out a lynchpin - be it MLK or Charlie Kirk - that system can fail.
We've got people being rammed in their cars and shot gangland style through the windows.
Delta Force is snatching foreign presidents while the sitting president dismisses the need for next year's local elections.
You can only waggle your finger saying "It could get even worse" so many times.
I general strike would be a good first step. It would be very painful and risky given how many folks live paycheck to paycheck and how we have almost no social safety net, but it’s safer and more realistic than everyone trying to go full Rambo or Red Dawn.
Remember at the start of COVID when we didn’t know how it spread and people were disinfecting their groceries and the feds and the bosses wanted everyone to keep working? It was only when the flight attendants threatened to strike and shut down air travel that they finally relented.
Thank you for the kind thoughts. It’s been pretty rough lately. Try to keep your head up :)