Variation on the theme: would you ever tell your child “You weren’t worth it.”
OP assuming you are asking for a reason, my view after some time is that when a parent make a statement like that it reflects more about the parent than the child.
Don’t you mean the people with gun saving the country from fascism? Or do you really except the guns to do it on their own?
Currently there are a few people without guns trying to stand up to fascism without violence. Most if not all are getting arrested/killed. There is also a large portion of the population that refuses to commit to violence. You see it over and over “don’t take the bait,” “don’t give them the excuse,” or “they want you to get violent.”
In order to cross over and have those against the current administration with guns put everything on the line, it either needs to get so bad that those individuals have no other choice OR jury nullification needs to occur in a high profile matter.
Put another way, has enough happened that YOU are personally willing to sacrifice your life to stand up against what is going on? If yes, do something. If no, continue building local community networks and support structures so if/when that occurs you have the capacity to effect change through violence.
Saying that guns (the tool currently used by the facists) somehow will not be effective to combat them makes little sense. It’s not a gun issue. It’s a will issue.
Ah yes… Terror high… My go to way to unwind after a week in the wage mines
But seriously Dad stopped talking to me and I followed suit. That was about 2 years ago. I missed him at first and worried about missing out on what little time he had left.
I eventually realized that I was missing something that no longer existed. My Dad either never was what I thought or became something I didn’t want in my life.
So I buried him. This way I can preserve what good memories I had and learn to live life without that relationship.
Make Thanksgiving seance themed!
I had a funeral for the one that went MAGA in my mind. I gave a great eulogy. All my favorite food was served at the meal following the wake. Easily in my top 10 funerals.
Agree that’s the tactic being used now and that was used then.
Disagree with the quote attribution, which in context of the post seems important enough to mention.
Tbh… This split perfectly represents why there is no going back to how it was before. There is only whatever comes next and the battle to shape that. Anyone that was hoping for a return to pre-Trump America needs to come to terms with this and pick a side (and hopefully realize there is more than two to pick from)
Along with rest, how much sleep are you getting. I kept up a similar pace for about 2 years before life commitments required scaling back. When I felt as you are describing I was not getting enough sleep.
NYS Penal Law SECTION 35.15 Justification; use of physical force in defense of a person
Whether or not he is a murderer depends on whether the DA can meet their burden of proving he committed the acts necessary to satisfy the elements of NYS definition of whatever degree of murder the Grand Jury indicts (if that happens) AND he is not able to establish the affirmative defense of justification.
None of these determinations have been made yet.
I gotta ask, are you a time traveler or a boot licker?
Of course not. If the first move on a chess board was to simply take your opponent’s king, that would always be the first move in every game.
Having the midterm vote suppressed is just one sacrificial pawn in the direction of what needs to be done to eradicate fascism.
Knowing what to do isn’t that valuable if you don’t time it correctly. It’s not just one person or party. It is systemic and requires a critical mass of history to be successful.