DeusUmbra

I had someone react like that to a single sentence I wrote. One sentence, like, 10 words maybe.

A revolution of the people will need many minds, with many ideals and inspirations. No one person has all the knowledge to fix everything, we must be a collective and work together for the destruction of the oppressors.

Oh wow, you are right, your title does say those things, and I have now seen the light and throw away my means of defending myself in the face of fascism, since we only "sometimes" need weapons to protect ourselves from blatant fascism according to your holy words.

There, I acknowledged your title, now return to your centrism and fence sitting. The adults are working on dealing with actual issues.

The problem is that you Think there is an opposition, when there is not. The Democrats are not the opposition, they are the collaborators, they merely act as if they are against what is happening while actively ensuring Trump can do whatever he wants. They must also be removed, just like we removed the collaborators in France and other countries after we removed the Nazis. There is a reason why the Dems keep telling us to not fight back, to remain peaceful and to not interfere, to keep playing by their rules. They are paid to be the losing side, the "voice of reason" that does nothing to help the people. The only ones who can stop Trump and the fascists in the government are the people.

“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.” ― George Orwell

The problem here is that you are positioning this as if what we are dealing with today is the same as what those people dealt with in their day, and it is not. We aren't dealing with rational politicians who believe that they must do something to appease the common people to avoid losing their jobs, we're dealing with fascists who are willing to crush any and all descent, regardless of how it makes them look, because they are already working on changing the law to ensure they cannot be removed from power.

Speaking of reading, read a little something from one of my favorite authors: “Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.” ― George Orwell

There are some amongst us who already have plans for how to run things once the revolution is over.

I'm not merely waiting, I am preparing, arming myself, for the day when the revolution begins.

I'm just waiting for the moment that shots are fired by one side or the other, because once that line is crossed we can finally get real change.

Yes, tell me about the peaceful protests that stopped the Nazis.

Hmm, yes, now tell me how persuasion stopped the Nazis.

Dammit Diogenes, this is why we don't allow you in the geometry class anymore.

No, feet. Hate feet. Absolutely disgusting.