We are despised because we are weak.
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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.
I don't care about warranted or morally justified. I only care about prospects of success. If in any given case, a given response makes things better, then it's good. Otherwise, it is not. It's difficult to predict, of course.
We're not going to end up in gulags. Modern totalitarianism is different from the crude variant of the last century. Maybe people in 100 years will wonder why Hitler and Stalin fought one another, since both of them were such benign characters compared with the rulers of then.
Because dying in open air prisons is so much better, right? Your outlook on all of this stuff ends in defeat and you seem to be oblivious or completely ok with it and I can't tell which scenario is more distressing.
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.
Honestly, I would disconnect for a while if I were you. Keep in mind you're seeing a distilled flow of all the most fucked up shit happening across the country / world.
That's good advice. It's very difficult to unplug in this town though.