• Mike Hunt@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    i wouldn’t call it a blessing, it’s being used to further all their shitty views and somehow make the left look violent.

    • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      31 minutes ago

      They already paint the left that way.

      And frankly, if that’s how they’re going to frame the left being non-violent, I feel like they might as well be violent and help the world out.

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        5 hours ago

        Their current slate of others is not the reason, they are the first victims. The people that have led us to this place do not actually give a shit about trans or people of color, they care about money. The ones that wrote the game plan and are running the plays. The religious and others are just allies. For now.

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      They don’t need real reasons to do their bullshit. Plus this guy was one of them anyway. How come the left is constantly defending themselves for being nonviolent when it’s the right that is constantly doing the violence? See the trump assassination attempt, the mn shooting, and most recently the Nazis death.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s a longer term play. If 40% of the populace is committed against MAGA, and 40% is irredeemably invested in MAGA, that leaves 20% so out of touch with current events they haven’t formed any strong opinion. Yes, the MAGA administration is going to do the bullshit anyway. But feeding into the “both sides are the same” narrative might tip the balance of voters into re-voting in the bullshit doers.

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          5 hours ago

          You misunderstood me. This is all propaganda and the real violent members are on the right. I’m saying we need to literally fight fascism here, not tiptoe around this shit as it’s already here. Who cares about their framing, it’s always a lie anyway.

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      5 hours ago

      That is happening regardless. Notice martial law already being imposed on cities without even a good reason for it. Or if you recall 2020 them nurturing paramilitary groups that they protected from people who fought back against them.

      There is no world where these guys were not already going to do all this stuff.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      Nothing the left or centre does will ever be enough. Violence is upon you whether you recognize it or not.

      Their shitty views were being advanced regardless of the circumstances because the psychopaths aren’t constrained by morals, ethics, logic, reason, facts or coherence. Everything is disingenuous, and used for weaponized purpose.

      Everything is disingenuous. Everything is disingenuous. Everything is disingenuous.

      There is no logic. No reason. No debate. Everything they do and say is to grab power for power’s sake. Your mistake, is to imply that if Kirk weren’t killed, the non-fascists would have less reason to hate, persecute and commit acts of violence on everyone else. They hate you not because of what you do, but that you broke their cardinal rule - you’re not one of them, therefore a target.

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      6 hours ago

      They were gonna do all the shitty things anyway. Appeasement never works against fascism. Bullets work. We learned this in WWII.

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      10 hours ago

      They were going to do that anyways, that was always the plan. You guys keep walking on eggshells and you’re going to give them all the room they need to finish you off. Signs a month from now are not cutting it.

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        8 hours ago

        You’re saying that as if this is a violent uprising, as if it’s damage enough to stop any oppression. We used to have a man who might’ve asked to keep some progressives alive to debate them. In his place is fodder for those who would not.

        “They were going to do it anyways” is not reason to help their believability.