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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So you're saying we only need to wait one year until the midterms and if that doesn't work, then all gloves off? Or are you going to tell us to wait then too?

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not telling anyone anything but to stand back, learn their enemy, and choose their own moment in which to bleed. Anyone calling for others to fight is not going to be bearing your losses, you are. You choose your own moment to fight.

And while you're weighing up your best approach, look at one of the many violent protests we've already had in this country and consider which ones are resounding successes, because they're not. They are all remembered as fails, on both sides. There are very good reasons why agents provocateurs are planted in non-violent protests; they would not be there if violence was not going to help the state.

Meanwhile, the National Guard was ordered out of Portland in 2025 because of non-violence:

https://www.opb.org/pdf/FINDINGS%20OF%20FACT%20AND%20CONCLUSIONS%20OF%20LAW_1762564569662.pdf

You have no right to get others to fight your battles. If you want to hit the streets and fight ICE, no one is stopping you. But it won't change a fucking thing. That's a great way to ensure you get labeled violent thugs and your protest labeled the problem of malcontents.

If you want change that makes a government truly piss itself in fear, go French and have a general strike.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think you misunderstand. I don't want violent PROTESTS. I want people to get these ghouls in their homes, as should anyone who truly values morality and not just pays lip service to it. But yes we all must choose our own moments of actions.

These people are doing real damage to real peoples lives. Destroying them and preventing that damage is an obvious good. These people will not be reformed. They will not be swayed by moral arguments and logic. They want you to suffer and they want to be the one to cause it.