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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 11 hours agoWhen right-wingers go postal, they get labeled by the media as lefties and we catch all the flack. Our only defense is the truth, that those killers were right-wingers.
When left-wingers go postal, it gets blown up on the media and generalized as the entire left and reflects poorly on left-wing causes as a whole.
It’s lose-lose, but I don’t mind letting the right-wing tear itself apart while right-wing extremists do the dirty work of taking out their rival right-wingers.
It’s an election year. Our best out is a decisive electoral victory, which is looking likely as long as there’s no fuckery behind the scenes (yes, I know that’s a big if). Let’s not tarnish the image of the opposition as long as that’s still a chance. Too much is at stake to lose the advantage in the court of public opinion.
If they rig or cancel the election, then yes that will be the final trigger that activates the third and fifth sentences of the Declaration of Independence. But if we lose the election because we had poor trigger discipline and didn’t have the patience to wait for a more advantageous position, then that’s on us…
bootleg@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I didn’t just mean political assasination, I also meant self defense. No matter how peaceful you act, some right-winger will find some reason to attack you if you’re a minority.
And if one’s country’s gun laws are not as liberal as the United States’, they should at least carry a bottle of pepper spray, a taser, and a self-defense knife. If those are illegal as well, they should make them themselves. And they should use them goddamnit.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
I agree that everyone should be capable and willing (and allowed) to defend themselves. As someone who was bullied my whole life, and often got in more trouble for defending myself than I ever saw my bullies get in, that’s a particular pain point for me.
But let’s not kid ourselves. Even if it’s in self-defense, the media would paint it as “radical left psycho-terrorist acting violent,” so it should only be considered as a last resort, back-against-the-wall, do-or-die sort of action.