We are despised because we are weak.
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Never lashing out is worse though. To be completely cowed such that you never act...it's hard to fathom a better distillation of abject weakness.
I didn't say never. I have always argued to people who whine that women can do any sort of domestic violence, that this is because of a lack of deterrent. If they knew that such behavior would get their skull smashed, then they wouldn't do it, even if they thought that the police would then railroad the guy.
This video just makes you mad. It has no consequences. Someone being racist to you in public, I'm sorry, but I couldn't care less about your feelings. I care about the effect that it has in the war on woke. Does it help us, or does it help them? In this case, it seems to help us. So I think it's good.
Sometimes you have to swallow your pride and think strategically.
Agreed. However I don't think I've ever seen you comment on a scenario where it crosses whatever threshold it is you think exists that would warrant escalation. What are the lines that have to be crossed before it's ok for someone to escalate aggressions, to respond in kind to the attacks and provocations of an enemy?
I almost feel that I'm being lured into some sort of trap. I am not sure specifying that is terrible productive. But more generally, there are a couple of things to consider. Revolutions almost always go bad. But that is not even my main issue.
Success. That's the only thing that matters if you want to vindicate liberty. Not threshold is a reason to try to restrain madness in a manner that is more likely to make things worse (much worse) than better.
I'm not clever or deceitful enough to lay traps. I'm just frustrated by your refusal to ever even contemplate the idea that a physical response is warranted and morally justified. Sitting on our hands forever will only ever end with us all in gulags.
People are always quick to encourage others to escalate, but rarely put their money where their mouth is.
Why are you pushing others to be violent when you clearly seem to think someone yelling at university students is the line in the sand where you should get violent? Shouldn't you hold to your principles before expecting others to hold to your principles?
It's the composite of all the various things going horribly wrong at warp speed all together that has me agitated. If all you're seeing is isolated incidents then sure my reaction looks pretty wild. I just see the overall trajectory of the direction we're trending in and see a dwindling window in which to correct course before this shit is all locked in for several generations and the rest of my years on this earth are destined to be spent in a genuine hellscape.