Just consider if escalating to the next stage is the right response. You are still a democracy. Use that power. Talk to people. Normal people, not crazies on the internet. And also don’t become crazies on the internet yourself. You have a lot of leverage now with all that shit which is going on as arguments to make people reconsider.
No one is talking about escalation. It’s simply an acknowledgement that when “ONE SIDE” is constantly talking about civil war and killing the other side…there are going to be people that react to that as if it’s a valid threat. The problem stems from the provocation…not the response. The response is inevitable. The provocation is not.
It doesn’t matter that everyone on the left has been advocating for restraint this entire time, and calling out folks on the right for their obviously inflammatory rhetoric. The instant someone pushes back, the right is going to clutch their pearls and claim to be the victim of “radical left-wing violence”. This is by design. It is intentional, and it is transparently disingenuous.
Feeding into this narrative, just because people are not showing enough sympathy for an objectively terrible person, is not helpful. people on the left are venting their frustrations…but they aren’t the ones calling for an escalation to the violence. That is, and always has been, coming from the right. Even now.
For at least the last 6 years, the right has been threatening civil war and lynch mobs, over every little issue…imaginary or otherwise.
It wasn’t “both sides”, until they started sending in masked gestapo to start rounding folks up and throwing them in camps.
Wake the fuck up.
Just consider if escalating to the next stage is the right response. You are still a democracy. Use that power. Talk to people. Normal people, not crazies on the internet. And also don’t become crazies on the internet yourself. You have a lot of leverage now with all that shit which is going on as arguments to make people reconsider.
No one is talking about escalation. It’s simply an acknowledgement that when “ONE SIDE” is constantly talking about civil war and killing the other side…there are going to be people that react to that as if it’s a valid threat. The problem stems from the provocation…not the response. The response is inevitable. The provocation is not.
It doesn’t matter that everyone on the left has been advocating for restraint this entire time, and calling out folks on the right for their obviously inflammatory rhetoric. The instant someone pushes back, the right is going to clutch their pearls and claim to be the victim of “radical left-wing violence”. This is by design. It is intentional, and it is transparently disingenuous.
Feeding into this narrative, just because people are not showing enough sympathy for an objectively terrible person, is not helpful. people on the left are venting their frustrations…but they aren’t the ones calling for an escalation to the violence. That is, and always has been, coming from the right. Even now.