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[+] -10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Good thing America doesn't currently have a gestapo and concentration camps. All thanks to the restorative power of violence. Things have in no way escalated since then, fascism has been thoroughly defeated. Mission accomplished, Dubya.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    Good thing America doesn’t currently have a gestapo and concentration camps. All thanks to the restorative power of violence.

    Unfortunately the pro-slavery forces rallied during the period of reconstruction, and were able to transmute slavery into a system of mass incarceration. Opposition to that wasn't non-violent, but you can't blame oppressed peoples for not always winning their confrontations. You can read about that in WEB dubois's black reconstruction in america. Your unwillingness to read even short articles above, is probably why you're so ignorant of the history of these class struggles.

    Things have in no way escalated since then,

    This is interesting coming from someone who avows pacifism, and thus thinks that reactionary violence shouldn't be challenged in any threatening way, and that we shouldn't dare fight back.

    Anyway, you can keep offering Gandhi's advice that "jews should've offered themselves to hitler's knife, as it would purify them". But the rest of us in the real world know that when someone attacks you, the best course of action is to stand up and fight back.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Your reliance on tertiary sources is probably why you're so ignorant of the simple, direct impact each action we take can have. I treasure direct input so much more and respect any of it anyone is willing to provide me. My perspective is informed by time spent in squats and camps and prisons. I know all too well what happens when I react to each injustice versus attempting transcendence, and feel I have a greater impact this way than I ever did resenting percieved defeats and pursuing empty victories. Go ahead and shoot a border patrol agent or whatever gets you hard. I'll keep putting water in the desert.

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  • [–] 7 points 18 hours ago*

    My perspective is informed by time spent in squats and camps and prisons. I know all too well what happens when I react to each injustice versus attempting transcendence

    bruh you aren't transcending anything you're just high as fuck writing this crap

    Go ahead and shoot a border patrol agent or whatever gets you hard. I’ll keep putting water in the desert.

    Man you're getting way too high and smug from your own farts.

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