• cacheson 🏴🔁🍊@piefed.social
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    13 hours ago

    This is probably a bit too reductive. Violence is sometimes necessary, but isn’t always the best strategy.

    In general, the left should take an approach of nonviolent, disruptive agitation, combined with a willingness to use violence in self-defense. Arm up, protect each other, but don’t try to instigate a shooting war.

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      2 hours ago

      MLK succeeded because the powers that be realized that Malcom X was the fallback plan. Malcom X did not have a problem with violence. And that’s not a dig at Malcom X.

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      12 hours ago

      Moderates only ever succeed with and because of a radical flank demonstrating the alternative.

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      12 hours ago

      No. The left should use violence as the tool it is that has always gotten results. Every right and freedom has come from the blood of those who fought.

      Leave the peaceful donothings to the lib/centrists, because they won’t do shit anyway.

      • cacheson 🏴🔁🍊@piefed.social
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        2 hours ago

        It smells like Fed in here. ಠ_ಠ

        Anarchists have a significant history of using “Propaganda of the Deed” and accomplishing fuck all with it. No shortage of examples among the history of the broader left, too. So yeah, I’m gonna have to call BS on this.

        Violence is a tool, and there’s a time and place for it. Don’t be an idiot adventurist about it though.

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        9 hours ago

        If you’re going to use violence, be very smart about your targets who, where, how. You want those in power to fear, not the average gun toting American who is just trying to pay rent and buy food. If you make that population fear for their lives they won’t hesitate to kill you and in most of this country they could do so legally.