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The most common response on social media to the democracy crisis in the USA seems to default to a need for extreme violence.
This response seems to have skipped from frustration and “don’t blame me I voted” to “civil war is coming” – and jumped right over ‘time to furiously organize civil society’.
Strategically, this is abandoning fundamental and practical matters. I don’t have much hope for success, those self-limiting ideologies seem to run deep even in the progressives there.
The most common response on social media to the democracy crisis in the USA seems to default to a need for extreme violence.
I know there are actual people like this, but I do think it’s mostly foreign bots beating the war drums. It happens here too, though far less than on Reddit.
If you’re so damn gung ho then get your ass out there. Knock yourself out.
I’m sick and tired of keyboard warriors on here screeching about action that they will never take themselves.
The most common response on social media to the democracy crisis in the USA seems to default to a need for extreme violence.
This response seems to have skipped from frustration and “don’t blame me I voted” to “civil war is coming” – and jumped right over ‘time to furiously organize civil society’.
Strategically, this is abandoning fundamental and practical matters. I don’t have much hope for success, those self-limiting ideologies seem to run deep even in the progressives there.
I know there are actual people like this, but I do think it’s mostly foreign bots beating the war drums. It happens here too, though far less than on Reddit.