Message from @FitnessByHeatherHeyer
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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
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
@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.
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
Yes, agreed.
I challenge any of these people to come up with a reasonable, strict definition of far right
because it doesnt exist :^)
The NAP's other flaw seems to be that always being on the defensive is never really a winning strategy.
Yes, I was going to make the same point.
Much like conservatism in general.
by that metric, much of the US' military involvement has been a "losing strategy" though
the two World Wars in particular
The US fought offensively in WWII
the US engaged in WW2 after being attacked
Well, they abstained until attacked. Then they went all-in
Yes, and then we counter-invaded Germany
yes, which was a member of the coalition that attacked the US
There's an argument to be had.
Anyway I'm not thinking only of violence when I criticize conservatism or reactionary thought.
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")
I really wish the U.S. and Western European governments fought the Soviets and Japanese together instead of what happened :(
And rooted out (((them))) in all of our nations
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)
Uprooting them in every major city
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.
oh sure
but that also depends on your goals
I think that might be a larger issue
Leftists are fucking tireless and they have huge swathes of professional agitators going around stirring up problems to complain about constantly.
Right wingers seem to just shut up and go back to work whenever they win a tiny battle.
well and now it looks like not all of the agitators are necessarily theirs
the claim has been made that some of the recent vidya freakouts have been started by anons for fun
Vidya freakouts?
I don't know what we are talking about.
Ion Fury and CTR reboot
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
both had big resetera/twatter freakouts
I wouldnt be surprised if there were non vidya freakouts with a similar, insincere origin
So shitposting that just fuels the Leftist propaganda machine? How is that productive?
What goal does it achieve?
chaos, amusement