• Andy@slrpnk.net
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    10 hours ago

    “Only violence works!” is stupid for exactly the same reason as “only non violence works!”

    The two are synergistic and contextual, fool.

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          3 hours ago

          Sure thing. It’s a parable wherein you are menaced by a creature dead set on devouring you and choose to react by pretending that violent self defense is an an unreasonable response.

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            2 hours ago

            Okay. That’s what I thought. So can you see where my confusion is coming from? Because I didn’t dismiss the utility of violence.

            Did you possibly misread my comment? I described violence and non-violence as synergistic practices and ridiculed people who fail to understand that neither one can function independent of the other.

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              1 hour ago

              You replied to something nobody said, talking as if somebody said “hey guys let’s always do violence in every situation and nothing else”. Some real “So you hate pancakes” shit.

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        10 hours ago

        every time i see these centrist arguments, i feel like i should be keeping meme’s that explain the point succinctly, but then i have to keep reminding myself that all that effort will be ignored anyways.

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          8 hours ago

          It’s not like you can even recommend them Fanon, because these motherfuckers don’t read!

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        9 hours ago

        Nah I think this user is saying that both have their place. And really, I don’t think that’s controversial. E.g., we do need to seize the banks, which will probably be violent, but we also need to do mutual aid, which need not be violent.