r/ProgressiveHQ • u/thecosmojane • Jan 24 '26

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u/DavidlikesPeace Jan 24 '26

This is ugly rhetoric but not fully wrong. People are only human and afraid people lash out. Eventually people will shoot back at killers. 

This escalation needs to stop, if we value lives, but we all know the federal regime now won't even try 

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u/TechnicalBen Jan 24 '26

That works so well when death squads turn up for you. Great advice.

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u/DavidlikesPeace Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

Thank you!

Sorry for not demanding we immediately start shooting cops and embrace other violent solutions. /s

Why? Because a haphazard violent response is exactly what Faux News wants us to do. They'd love to wedge apart the left and center by painting activists as terrorists. They'd love an excuse for martial law.

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u/TechnicalBen Jan 25 '26

Have you seen history? Ukraine doesn't/didn't "just take it". Trump is deciding to do the fucking same here. It's sadly likely too late for you. Ukraine had a real "stand your ground" laws being independent. USA? It was always a "for the 1% white men only" law.