Message from @FitnessByHeatherHeyer

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2019-08-22 11:07:47 UTC  

or to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreemnet

2019-08-22 11:32:26 UTC  

The general idea is that you shouldn't be the one to escalate from "thoughts" to violence. Advocating for something that others find objectionable isn't cause for violence, but trying to act upon that advocacy could be.
The revolution was fought because the British government was enforcing laws the colonists considered unjust.
I can't speak for the overseas wars because I'm against those.
Plenty of politicians have advocated removing my speech rights, but that alone doesn't justify murdering them

2019-08-22 13:32:20 UTC  

@Deleted User is pointing out a real problem with the NAP mindset--the opposition doesn't reciprocate.

Also, the legal definition of conspiracy is different from the dictionary definition and doesn't require secrecy.

@C1PHER I would consider gun confiscation, for instance, a legitimate cause for political violence.

2019-08-22 13:33:59 UTC  

Right, but advocating for confiscation and enacting it are separate issues. I gathered that Alloy thinks the "far right" needs to be punched because they advocate for the bad things

2019-08-22 13:34:25 UTC  

Yes, agreed.

2019-08-22 13:34:54 UTC  

I challenge any of these people to come up with a reasonable, strict definition of far right

2019-08-22 13:35:02 UTC  

because it doesnt exist :^)

2019-08-22 13:35:43 UTC  

The NAP's other flaw seems to be that always being on the defensive is never really a winning strategy.

2019-08-22 13:36:02 UTC  

Yes, I was going to make the same point.

2019-08-22 13:36:13 UTC  

Much like conservatism in general.

2019-08-22 13:37:04 UTC  

by that metric, much of the US' military involvement has been a "losing strategy" though

2019-08-22 13:37:19 UTC  

the two World Wars in particular

2019-08-22 13:38:33 UTC  

The US fought offensively in WWII

2019-08-22 13:38:43 UTC  

the US engaged in WW2 after being attacked

2019-08-22 13:39:02 UTC  

Well, they abstained until attacked. Then they went all-in

2019-08-22 13:39:03 UTC  

Yes, and then we counter-invaded Germany

2019-08-22 13:39:21 UTC  

yes, which was a member of the coalition that attacked the US

2019-08-22 13:40:33 UTC  

There's an argument to be had.

2019-08-22 13:41:05 UTC  

Anyway I'm not thinking only of violence when I criticize conservatism or reactionary thought.

2019-08-22 13:41:59 UTC  

sure, but the NAP isn't really part of a conservative thought process, beyond the "conservation" of constitutional values (which arent even a universal value on the "right")

2019-08-22 13:42:26 UTC  

I really wish the U.S. and Western European governments fought the Soviets and Japanese together instead of what happened :(

2019-08-22 13:43:11 UTC  

And rooted out (((them))) in all of our nations

2019-08-22 13:43:19 UTC  

the NAP also doesnt discount defense of others, which was also a driving force behind US foreign involvement (even if the motivation for said defense was less than pure)

2019-08-22 13:43:19 UTC  

Uprooting them in every major city

2019-08-22 13:43:52 UTC  

What I'm really criticizing is the reactionary mindset of resisting attacks but not constantly pushing for advancement of one's own goals. This is a major asymmetry in Left vs Right tactics.

2019-08-22 13:44:00 UTC  

oh sure

2019-08-22 13:44:12 UTC  

but that also depends on your goals

2019-08-22 13:44:18 UTC  

I think that might be a larger issue

2019-08-22 13:45:12 UTC  

Leftists are fucking tireless and they have huge swathes of professional agitators going around stirring up problems to complain about constantly.

2019-08-22 13:45:34 UTC  

Right wingers seem to just shut up and go back to work whenever they win a tiny battle.

2019-08-22 13:45:38 UTC  

well and now it looks like not all of the agitators are necessarily theirs

2019-08-22 13:45:59 UTC  

the claim has been made that some of the recent vidya freakouts have been started by anons for fun

2019-08-22 13:46:26 UTC  

Vidya freakouts?

2019-08-22 13:46:36 UTC  

I don't know what we are talking about.

2019-08-22 13:46:37 UTC  

Ion Fury and CTR reboot

2019-08-22 13:47:31 UTC  

Ion Fury had the Ogay bottle, a "fagbag" texture outside of the map, CTR had a resetera thread in which someone claimed that one of the characters had a darker colour scheme called watermelon

2019-08-22 13:47:43 UTC  

both had big resetera/twatter freakouts

2019-08-22 13:47:58 UTC  

I wouldnt be surprised if there were non vidya freakouts with a similar, insincere origin

2019-08-22 13:48:32 UTC  

So shitposting that just fuels the Leftist propaganda machine? How is that productive?

2019-08-22 13:48:41 UTC  

What goal does it achieve?

2019-08-22 13:48:55 UTC  

chaos, amusement