If you get in a verbal argument with someone then that doesn't suddenly open things up to physical violence, and if they take the first punch then it makes them look bad and makes us look good, which is exactly what has just happened.
Ask the South how fighting a moral war worked out for them.
Spoilers: The Yankees wrote them as evil racists who wanted to keep slavery, while Lincoln, who loved the UNITED States and only wanted to keep it together, wept at his desk when the Confederates took Fort Sumpter.
Looking good is quite literally the entire war. It's a war being fought through media and appearances. If you start LARPing as a real-life fascist then you will get shut down immediately and lose all support. It's not even just a matter of morals, but also simple practicality and effectiveness.
If you get in a verbal argument with someone then that doesn't suddenly open things up to physical violence, and if they take the first punch then it makes them look bad and makes us look good, which is exactly what has just happened.
Ask the South how fighting a moral war worked out for them.
Spoilers: The Yankees wrote them as evil racists who wanted to keep slavery, while Lincoln, who loved the UNITED States and only wanted to keep it together, wept at his desk when the Confederates took Fort Sumpter.
The outcome of the Civil War actually proves my point. I'm not exactly sure what alternative outcome you think could have occurred there.
John Wilkes Booth ended the tyrant, not a bunch of optics cucks who VOTED HARDER.
And then Lincoln became a martyr, blacks ended up remaining in America and gaining citizenship, and the South was devastated by carpetbaggers.
Looking good is quite literally the entire war. It's a war being fought through media and appearances. If you start LARPing as a real-life fascist then you will get shut down immediately and lose all support. It's not even just a matter of morals, but also simple practicality and effectiveness.