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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre gfy

mlk and malcom x were both assassinated.

you call this peaceful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytXnmp_I9I8 ?

try the velvet revolution in america today

you’re disingenuous and the worst person on lemmy. i’d really, R E A L L Y LOVE to. SHAKE. your hand.

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i’m not talking about rage, although i do think anger is a great motivator. i’m talking about calm, rational use of violence as a means to an end.

that’s exactly it. i grew up naively believing in peace. i still do. i have tried every angle to make the world a better place in a non violent manner. i’ve exhausted my options.

be sure to paint your way out of a fascist dystopia.

man, everything you just said is so far askew of reality, i don’t know where to begin to deconstruct it. suffice it to say the sky is not blue in your world and i don’t know what to do with that.

i don’t fox watch news so i have no idea what you’re talking about. i use the word narcissist in the classical sense, i.e. someone who thinks only of themselves and not of the whole.

• pacifism is cowardly when inaction enables bad actors.
• not everyone values peace. never assume that just because you’re chill everyone else is too.
• the paradox of tolerance is not a paradox.
• humanity is what you make it. what do you want it to be? MAKE IT THAT.
• don’t let the illusion of a peaceful society lull you into a vulnerable trance. plenty of past civilizations never saw their end coming.
• never play fair with your enemy. once you choose violence, your virtues have been compromised. there’s nothing noble about it. it’s simply what has to be done, so do it effectively.

we will never have the society we are capable of as long as we are caught in a tug of war between narcissism and altruism. as long as the narcissists are allowed a place at the table, they will undermine any attempt at utopia for their own interests.

i believe the 21st century began an era in which the utopia that most considered a pipe dream became a feasible reality. we have all the tools and technology now to create a world in which no one suffers, not even the other species of this planet. to have that reality within reach, and to let greedy fascists, shallow narcissists, and religious zealots derail that future, is to make yourself no better then them.

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