• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    They’re not, but is that an excuse to be lawless too? If the enemy commits war crimes, how are you any better if you do the same?

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      25 minutes ago

      You shouldn’t need an excuse to be lawless; laws are usually bad, and never good in cases where something else wouldn’t do the trick.

      They’re a tool for the powerful to save face and appropriate progressive efforts when on the defensive, to divide us and keep us complacent when they’re on the offensive. They are the shield and sword of injustice. Not a fan.

      Your conscience, fine. But laws? That is, at best; clown shit.

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      17 hours ago

      oh but history shows they were

      we don’t have to guess how this plays out, educate yourself

      ‘better’ is for the strong and civilized, we are not strong in this mess and civil went out with Jan 6th

      they’ve broken the social contract, they no longer deserve its protection

      but it’s moot, this will go the same way it did in Germany

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          14 hours ago

          if you’re not in the US I can’t claim to be informed enough

          i do know Nazis are resurfacing everywhere though so more than likely you’re just fucking oblivious

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            14 hours ago

            I’m actively fighting them. Still in a legal way. If war breaks out, then I’ll go to other less lawful ways.

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              14 hours ago

              read about nazi germany it will be too late

              in the US they are playing boiling the frog and soon they’ll escalate all the way, it will happen fast and violent

              i’m not advocating violence, I’m saying we’re going to regret not having done so

              paradox of tolerance should be required study

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                read about nazi germany it will be too late

                Dude, my entire family was in the resistance. My great grandfather hid jews on his farm, was captured, tortured and died in a concentration camp. My family smuggled crashed British pilots back to England and liquidated traitors (family in my mother’s side) and blew up train tracks and communication lines (family on my father’s side). When my grandfather died, we found a huge walk-in closet filled with gas masks, emergency food, machine guns and ammo, a chest filled with hand grenades. In The Netherlands. I’ve had a lot of history lessons in school. Plain history, political history, economic history. I know a lot about nazis, how they come to power, how they work.

                I see what’s happening right now. The lack of democratic and media resistance right now leads to them gaining power, which will lead us having to escalate to more violent and unlawful measures. I don’t want it to come like that, that’s why I’m politically fighting the far right in my country (and fighting fake news) and even though they have taken too much power in my eyes, they can’t just do whatever the fuck they want.

                The US, however, is a failed state and the democrats were way to passive (and also too right wing themselves). So there’s no hope. Violence may be the only option. But just don’t dehumanize your enemy, don’t treat others how you don’t want to be treated yourself.