Where's the tipping point? If someone quietly builds an army with stated intent, all you can do is talk about it?
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Replying to @gdeichen
Building an army is an action. You can take action against it. If ppl state intention to commit violence, you can stop them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @gdeichen
At least then you know what their plans are which you don't if you stop them speaking.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @gdeichen
We won the war of ideas against Nazism with words. 'Nazi' is now used to mean 'thoroughly malevolent authoritarian'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
We're losing other wars of words, though - young guys getting "radicalised", etc.
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Replying to @gdeichen
Yes, so we need to know what they're saying & present the problems to waverers. Argue with ppl. https://areomagazine.com/2016/12/14/the-value-of-arguing-with-extremists-building-a-moderate-center/ …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
All makes sense - almost tempting to call it common sense. But does the softly softly approach work with hardened views?
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Replying to @gdeichen @HPluckrose
People with genuinely fascistic views who advocate physical violence are finding each other and organising.
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Replying to @gdeichen @HPluckrose
From a tactical POV, a consistent theme is that everyone ether is a "cuck" or a "snowflake". As conflicted as I am, the Left…
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Replying to @gdeichen @HPluckrose
…making an occasional show of mild physical force to some extent counters that rhetoric.
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This makes the case against better than I can. https://www.popehat.com/2017/01/21/on-punching-nazis/ …
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