You're trotting out the same tired "muh optics" horse shit the tradcuck right has used to lull us into passive inaction while the left takes territory for decades. And now they literally just tried to murder our leader on live TV and here you are pulling out the same old "remember, if you fight your enemies they win" garbage.
You're acting as if I'm saying we shouldn't have shot the shooter. Obviously defend yourself with force when your life is threatened. But the original argument was that it's perfectly reasonable to be disgusted by the left attempting and supporting an assassination attempt. Trying to paint me as a pacifist is completely disingenuous.
And your enemy believes that using Force proactively in order to achieve your goals is just as acceptable as using it in self-defense. And they believe that because they are at war with you and that's what you do in war. You are going to lose if you don't understand this. And if enough people on your side believe the same thing, your entire side loses. And then it won't matter whether or not you had the moral high ground, because you'll be dead and your enemies will rewrite history to make it look like you were the bad guy all along, and you'll be too dead to do anything about it.
It's always shocking to me just how many people have no idea of the value of initiative in a fight. They don't realize that "just let them strike first then fight back, so you look better" is saying "just vastly increase the likelihood you will die, so you look better"
You're trotting out the same tired "muh optics" horse shit the tradcuck right has used to lull us into passive inaction while the left takes territory for decades. And now they literally just tried to murder our leader on live TV and here you are pulling out the same old "remember, if you fight your enemies they win" garbage.
You're acting as if I'm saying we shouldn't have shot the shooter. Obviously defend yourself with force when your life is threatened. But the original argument was that it's perfectly reasonable to be disgusted by the left attempting and supporting an assassination attempt. Trying to paint me as a pacifist is completely disingenuous.
And your enemy believes that using Force proactively in order to achieve your goals is just as acceptable as using it in self-defense. And they believe that because they are at war with you and that's what you do in war. You are going to lose if you don't understand this. And if enough people on your side believe the same thing, your entire side loses. And then it won't matter whether or not you had the moral high ground, because you'll be dead and your enemies will rewrite history to make it look like you were the bad guy all along, and you'll be too dead to do anything about it.
It's always shocking to me just how many people have no idea of the value of initiative in a fight. They don't realize that "just let them strike first then fight back, so you look better" is saying "just vastly increase the likelihood you will die, so you look better"
"If you let your enemy kill you, you win!" -- Justin
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