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Violence is a legitimate and appropriate response to oppression.

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President Biden: "I call on everyone, no matter how deeply they care about this decision, to keep all protests peaceful. Peaceful, peaceful, peaceful. No intimidation. Violence is never acceptable. Threats and intimidation are not speech."

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Carlos Maza

@gaywonk

Jun 24

The suffragettes planted bombs. Queer people threw bricks. Violence has always been a necessary and important part of social justice.

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The whole point of democratic governance is to create an alternative to violence. When the government is no longer democratic, you’re supposed to go back to Plan A.

5:53 PM · Jun 24, 2022

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Zero significant positive change in America has ever come about through non-violent means

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MLK didnt use violence did he?

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We don't need violence. We need to strike. Hit them where it hurts.

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Yeah, their chest cavities and skulls.

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The original liberals even knew that. That's the whole point of the french revolution. And also American revolution, wtf happened?!

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And also, the second amendment that conservatives defend with life and limb. If they’re so determined to protect our right, it’s high time we take advantage.

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I think that's currently the point of all of this. These politicians don't care about abortion, but they are attacking rights in order to force the people to fight in order to try to put us down. I don't want violence, but if it's the only way, then so be it.

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Today decision is very democratic, every state can choose basically anything from full abortion ban to full abortion legalization, which gives MORE democratic options that the previous state of affairs.

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