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They're going to be violent; it's only a matter of when, how much, and for how long. Kicking the can down the road puts "when" further away by making "how much" and "for how long" much worse.
Right? Jan 6 was a taste.
It was comically incompetent but almost successful. They had a practice run, the next time will be better (for them) if we let this continue. Gotta rip the bandage off at some point.
One thing I've wondered about is if the police that were part of the maga following have come to their senses AT ALL after having hundreds/thousands of people threaten them, beat them, etc when they were supposed to be "on the same side" during the January 6th nonsense.
So much of that uprising, protest, whatever you think it should be called, would've normally been squashed before people ever made it to the capital building if the police would've responded in a similar fashion to the many much smaller protests that came before it.
I highly doubt it, they probably figure anyone causing trouble was actually antifa.
It was done so undercover and with a hamstrung/compliant law enforcement that national security didn't see it coming, although General Milly seems to have anticipated it. Right wing terrorists are treated with gentle hands. They will be much more careful and thorough the next time. They are telegraphing it every day through Republican speak. Listen closely.
But that’s how we solve every problem in life.
Something something always do the right then when we have no other choice.
i wish they would get violent and we would respond in kind with greater force. give me a reason to start shooting these stupid fucks. let's get this over with ffs.
I get what you're saying, though I would frame it differently.
Knowing that there will be fascist violence, sooner or later (and with the election in November, that's the cutoff date), I may be put in a position of protecting myself and others. I need to be prepared to do that protecting.
Rudy has already hinted at violence Republicans are priming the cult. Tonight the rural red folk are out at night practicing with their night scoped rifles. Prepare accordingly.
Good point, though I would counter that there's a lot of blustering about taking our country back but I haven't seen many serious attempts or people capable of actually planning and executing such a thing, and I've had a good bit of contact with what y'all would consider to be American far right rebels.
For all I know, the far righties talking about their revolution is about as productive as the tankies talking about theirs. Nobody sees a future in this country where the workers seize the means of production and we actually eat the rich, right?
Comrade, I think you might be lost. I'm confident there are plenty of people on Lemmy who 100% envision such a future -- I can't be the only one!
Well, it's Lemmy, so in all honesty I'd say that there definitely are a lot of tankies here who are as delusional as the far right MAGA idiots. Blind adherence to ideology makes madmen of us all, just as does a cult of personality like Trump's.
Enlighten us, what's your ideology? The status quo ?