Didn't you idiots spend at least several weeks being absolutely certain that
I was Ron Paul? I Punch Nazis is right; you do this to everyone.
I have a lot of thoughts on this thread that I'm sure no-one wants to hear, and if you've just banned the person who was asking, I'm not sure actually they actually matter now. But fuck it.
As others have said, violence is a last resort, so you can tell a lot about the nature of the character of people who choose to use it as a first; either they're hot-headed fools or they're people who feel helpless. A lot of people feel helpless from the start; and thinking your enemy is the worst evil imaginable can make it that way. (Personally, I choose not to see the Nazis in the right-wing as
evil, because evil is a pure construct and an ideal. It's something that the universe cannot be without - light, dark, good, evil, yin and yang. Thinking of an opponent as
evil can make you feel justified, but it also contributes to that feeling of helplessness. After all, even irrational human beings know deep down that evil as a force can never be totally defeated. I don't think of the alt-right jackasses pretending to be Nazis as evil, I think of them as misguided and potentially dangerous.)
I left the other thread, tired of arguing and ready to take another break (which I maybe haven't - do I even have any friends here? Why do I keep coming back?) with a link to Accidental Courtesy (which I also have some conflicting thoughts on), and then decided to edit it out of the comment because fuck you guys. I'm sick of arguing about it all and I figure nobody would watch it and anyone who did would just say that it doesn't matter. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get it out before Pretentious Movie Director quoted it, and well, there it is. Sometimes I try to stop being an asshole and just say, "Look, here's what I'm saying," but nobody wants that either. I'm in a lose-lose situation on this board at this point and I should just be glad that I haven't been banned, too.
I'm a left-leaning person but I'm more centrist in my arguments. Much like Daryl Davis when he fucks up his interview with BLM, I wind up getting more pissed off at people
I actually side with than those to whom I'm opposed. When people on my team are fucking up, I feel the need to try to fix the problem. Maybe I just have zero tact, but 9 times out of 10 it just winds up with them accusing me of being a spy for the other team.
Right now, the strategy of the hard-left in America feels like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hooKVstzbz0I wish everyone would stop and say, "Look, calm the fuck down. We're all being trolled into losing our cool, and if we keep doing what they expect, we're going to keep losing." Violence is the physical manifestation of absolute frustration, not just with an opponent, but also with one's self.
Or maybe that's the Old Camp talking. This stuff is delicious. And it's only $1.99 for 100ml.
