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JPK

(936 posts)
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 09:35 PM Wednesday

They are coming for us

Arm your selves while you can. Organize while you can. They are coming for 3/4ths of the country that hate them.

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They are coming for us (Original Post) JPK Wednesday OP
Non-violence is the only way to go. usonian Wednesday #1
I got hammered in 2016 for suggesting the same, Ferryboat Thursday #2

usonian

(23,594 posts)
1. Non-violence is the only way to go.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 10:16 PM
Wednesday

It has won in the past.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219813493

Violence only fosters further violence.

Your solution is even less effective than Animal House.



And that would have gotten you shot anyway.
And a whole lot more.

Ferryboat

(1,218 posts)
2. I got hammered in 2016 for suggesting the same,
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 12:02 AM
Thursday

By the it can't happen here crowd.
Non violence is the way forward, but that only works when your dealing with an opposition that has values and a coherent political philosophy.

Fascism only understands violence. To think they can be reasoned with is setting ourselves up for a bad outcome.

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