Comment on How Trump is Following Hitler's Playbook | Robert Reich
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 8 months agoFor sure! Do that shit yesterday, no matter who is president. If you’re really worried about shit like this post, I hope you’re learning to shoot, and maybe acquiring guns and ammo.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
My concern with this is if you spend all your days practicing hammer swings pretty soon you start to think every problem is a nail.
I am personally very skeptical that the most effective resistance to a possible Trump presidency will involve guns. There are 1000 tactics to try before that that have a much more proven history of effectiveness. Politics is ultimately about persuasion. It only becomes about killing your enemy once you’ve failed at that.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I don’t disagree at all, I see that as an absolute last resort, but I also don’t think it’d be a good idea to wait until the very last moment to start preparing for the worse case scenario, which isn’t outside the realm of possibility.
If he wins, it’s possible things will only get sorta bad, but he actually does leave office in 4 years, and things go back to ‘normal’. But it’s just as possible things get even more polarized, he pulls some weird shit, and then we’re left holding the bag.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Is there a way we prevent it becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy though? My concern is that armed groups are more likely to escalate things, foment conflict, scare moderates into supporting the fascists, and give them propaganda tools to justify crackdowns. The similarity to 1930’s Germany rings true but doesn’t imply any specific solution.
I’m open to this hedge your bets argument but for it to make sense the benefit needs to be bigger and more likely than the cost. I’m not sure I see that yet. And I have a natural skepticism of violence because many people get carried along with it even when in retrospect it was unhelpful or even harmful.