• MagicShel@programming.dev
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        18 days ago

        If you don’t have enough people to win the war by picking up pens and voting, you definitely don’t have enough to win by picking up guns and shooting.

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            18 days ago

            No. You’re going to have to walk me through the thought process that led you to ask that. My whole point is if you can’t win through voting, don’t try to start a war because you aren’t going to win that either.

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              18 days ago

              Sorry that was half a thought. The country is divided 50/50, both sides see themselves as good and the other evil. Anyone starts shooting and you got a civil war.

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                18 days ago

                Republicans have already started shooting. Just look at the rise in hate crimes over the last 8 years.

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        18 days ago

        It’s the literal reason for the 2nd amendment, there is no arguing that fact.

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        17 days ago

        Not with First Past The Post voting still a huge factor in how things play out. I do vote local, however.

        But violence solves lots of problems.

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          17 days ago

          ???

          FPTP reduces your options to 2 (sometimes 3) and one of the options literally holds the stances you express worry about.

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            17 days ago

            FPTP prevents 3rd party candidates from being viable. Until we get an Alternative Vote, there’s little that can be done to get third parties successfully winning elections.

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              17 days ago

              and? Just vote for the candidate who best represents you. Bonus points if they want election reform.

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                16 days ago

                Throughout all of human history, the only treatment for a plague of conservatism has been direct violence. Pacifism has never cured conservatism.

                It’s unfortunate that the normal people must walk on egg-shells when discussing the cure for a disease while the diseaae itself publicly calls for extermination of the normal people. If the normal people are to survive this, we must prepare and train together. That means discussing this issue and how to solve it. Unfortunately, there has never been a peaceful solution to this problem. Violence has always been required.

                If you have an alternative treatment for this disease, please feel free to share it. Otherwise, why insult those of us who are willing and able to address this problem?

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                  Violence requires a very high bar that has not been met. Not yet anyway, and those who have gone through it would tell you it’s wise not to be so flippant. And that bar hasn’t been met for you either obviously, regardless of the key clacking, but cool user name.

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                    15 days ago

                    Slaughtering neighbors may not yet be appropriate, but the appropriate time to discuss our defenses, train and prep is right now. Avoiding or discouraging the discussion is counterproductive and only assists those who are champing at the bit to slaughter us first.

                    Why should conservatives be permitted to openly discuss oppressing and killing the normal people yet the normal people be disallowed from discussing our defense?