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JPK

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

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 Jan 7 OP

Non-violence is the only way to go. usonian Jan 7 #1

I got hammered in 2016 for suggesting the same, Ferryboat Jan 8 #2

usonian

(24,186 posts)

1. Non-violence is the only way to go.

Reply to JPK (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 10:16 PM

Jan 7

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.

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Ferryboat

(1,250 posts)

2. I got hammered in 2016 for suggesting the same,

Reply to JPK (Original post)

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 12:02 AM

Jan 8

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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