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maple | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think the real question is “what CAN we do?” Every technique that we’re usually told is core to participating in democracy is only minimally effective at best anymore.
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An Alien's Angst | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Violence. Obviously. 

I'm not joking and the fact that it can be interpreted like one is a failure of our times.

All rights are necessarily defended and enforced by violence. Ontologically. Fundamentally. 

The fact that the vast majority of the American populace is unwilling to use violence because it's "not the answer" and "makes us just like them" with their feminine movie logic is why it has gotten so bad in the first place.

If Americans acted like the French at one of their million "worker's rights" protests or whatever it is every time something stupid was said or done, do you really think the current state of affairs would be happening?
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An Alien's Angst | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 But, only Marxists are willing to do violence so they get to decide what America looks like.