• chosensilence@pawb.social
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    16 hours ago

    how is it different? it isn’t and that is fine. because you are treating leftists as some kind of side or team when in reality far left “extremism” is largely in response to authoritarian violence and fascism. it is a reaction to oppression, it isn’t an aimless violence or a way to enforce your ideology on to others.

    it is different because we have the moral high ground here. have some respect for your beliefs and agree that you are right. we are on the right side of history and we have to act like it or we are going to fucking lose.

    • railway692@piefed.zip
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      14 hours ago

      have some respect for your beliefs and agree that you are right.

      That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t question/interrogate them.

      If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify.

      History is full of people who’ve done horrible things because they were convinced of the Righteousness of their cause.

      *points in MAGA’s general direction*

      I show up to my local protests and do firearms training (just in case,) but that doesn’t mean I’m going stop thinking about where the line should be drawn.