• @ed_cock
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    118 months ago

    Violence is supposed to be the last resort to deal with them, I don’t see how this is in any way helpful, good or justified.

    • krimsonbun
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      -48 months ago

      If he’s still alive it’s definitely not helpful, I agree

      • 520
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        58 months ago

        The last resort according to basic self preservation.

        The other side have guns too. What do you think they’re gonna do when you start killing their people?

        • krimsonbun
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          08 months ago

          they’re already shooting. that’s why we’re mad in the first place.

          • 520
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            38 months ago

            And sure, shoot at the fucker that’s a threat to you. That’s no justification to shoot at persons 2 and 3 that had similar belief systems but wasn’t shooting at you.

            • krimsonbun
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              08 months ago

              The right is already directly and indirectly killing innocent people.

              • 520
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                Oh, the entire right wing is killing people? So how much blood is on the hands of the elderly couple down the road that go to church every Sunday?

                Such rhetoric is not only incredibly immature and lacking of insight, it encourages the extremism that leads to violence. Grow up.

                • krimsonbun
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                  08 months ago

                  The right as in the political right wing in the context of Spain.

                  • 520
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                    Ohhh okay. So, the political right wing of Spain, which is far less prone to political violence than that of, say, America?

                    Do you not understand how introducing violence to that equation is an even worse idea?

        • @RedPandaRaider
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          8 months ago

          One side is gonna lose in the end. That is all that matters. The world is ruled with violence. Non-violence only is beneficial to those currently in power.

          Basic self-preservation as you put it requires violence. How are you going to preserve yourself when you let people run around who want to opress or kill you?

          • 520
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            48 months ago

            One side is gonna lose in the end.

            And there are plenty of times where this is done non violently.

            Basic self-preservation as you put it requires violence.

            Yes. As a last resort. That doesn’t mean never using violence. It means using it for self preservation, not just because you disagree with them.

            • @RedPandaRaider
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              08 months ago

              As a last resort is too late. If you can use violence successfully, it justifies itself. Waiting for when it’s time for the last resort is too late. You’re not going to stop the nazis in the spring of 1933, you would have needed to kill them in the 20s, a decade before they came to power. The same applies to any political movement.

              • 520
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                38 months ago

                You’re not going to stop the nazis in the spring of 1933, you would have needed to kill them in the 20s, a decade before they came to power.

                Except such thinking was how we got the Nazis in the first place. Hitler co-opted unions and parties who were extremised by such responses, and these were the basis of the Nazi party.

                • @RedPandaRaider
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                  08 months ago

                  No the reason why we got the Nazis in the first place is because liberal institutions allowed them to exist and participate. It was mainly the fault of the German social democratic party.

                  Violence is how to prevent them. For anything you can criticize the Soviet Union for, any fascist movement there would have been squashed with extreme prejudice. Just like anyone even close to fascism ideologically was terrorised.

                  • 520
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                    Ah yes, because violence people who think differently to you has never led to extremism and said violence being returned to you…apart from the many, many times that it has.

                    Seriously, if you think that initiating violence against right wingers is going to lead to anything except right wing extremists using violence on everyone else, you really need to look at your history books again.

      • @ed_cock
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        18 months ago

        The guy people keep partly citing when they bring up the “paradox of tolerance”, for example.