And that's just a lie. The legal system IS keeping up. The National Guard is NOT being redeployed. Hell, the NG isn't even in Menneapolis, though Gov. Walz has put it on standby as is his prerogative as governor.

Ghandi is a great story, but guess who he had as a counter balance? The stick.

Then you should go back and reread that story, because "the stick" was hundreds of years worth of the British coming down on Indians with absolute brutality, the Indians rising up again with massive brutality of their own, and then the British coming back across with escalations like Amritsar.

What got the British their asses handed to them after hundreds of years of this bloody back and forth was a line of non-violent protesters who simply went to the beach to make salt. Thousands of them. Who at the end of their march walked straight into billy clubs without ever raising a hand or a stick.

You literally do not know the history you to seek to (mis)represent here. Hundreds of years of what you propose did nothing; it only secured the British power more firmly than ever. And it's not just India; we have some semblance of civil rights here because of Martin Luther King, Jr. doing the same thing.

The line of violence is not for you to propose to others. It is for you to choose for yourself, and stop trying to get others to bleed in your stead.

If they think they can best you through physical force alone, that's what they will do. You can't let them think that. You need a stick to respond in kind with.

Holding that stick is fine. We have a Constitutional right to that stick. They need to be made to think about that stick before they attack us.

BUT we gotta play smarter than that and pray to God we don't gotta use that stick, because these guys will beat The People in a standup fight. Why?

Their whole lives are violence. They dream of violence, they are paid handsomly to spend their time training for violence, they spend their individual salaries on violence-multipliers and have government budgets to enable their violence, they consume violence.

They have forfeited their humanity in order to be really, really good at brutalizing and killing other human beings, and they have a massive apparatus behind them.

If we draw a line in the sand they will cross that line because they know they would win that game.

However, they seemingly struggle to understand how their own friggin' government works though, and they're slipping up, even with their cronies in place. We need to press that advantage as hard as we can and play a game they're too stupid to handle.

So if we can embolden the political resistance, and also stoke civil resistance as discussed above (cutting off supply lines and flipping public sentiment and pressuring weenie politicians), any act of brutality is still a massive mark against them right now.

I'm sure only the most diehard cultists can see what happened to that poor woman and still think "bUt MuH jUsTiFiEd FeDs ThO." The more we expose them, the more they'll lose support, even from all their wet-napkin neolib suburbanites who "Don't follow politics."

By all means, we should still train and be ready to use that stick, if all else fails. But by God...we should not be eager.

I did respond with substance; you chose to reply to a different comment. You are the one without substance: all general urgings toward violence -- "We can either let them, or we can do something about [it]" -- but nothing specific. I referred to very specific points in history, and when and why they worked, while you blew right past that to be able to remain in your generalities.

But what I'd really like you to explain, which you cannot and never will, is how and why it is a winning measure to respond to provocation with violence when your violent response is exactly what they want, and will absolutely be used to cement their power further.

I just posted the court order that literally says the National Guard were posted to Portland, Oregon to quell existing violence. They got kicked out based on the fact there was no violence.

Your answer to this is to call others, not yourself, to unspecified violence.

So I'd say we're not on the same team, regardless of what you write or how old your account (or you) are, because what you propose will only set cities on fire and cement this administration's hold on power. As actual history shows.

I've come to the conclusion that you're just writing because you already know this crew is drowning under the weight of their own unpopularity, and you are terrified they will get thrown out before they really get cemented in. Or like some others, you really do want to see American cities burn. Or like even others, you're terrified because you left your regional and national security to the US for far too long and never took action to secure yourselves against the neighbor in your own backyard (Putin).

Whatever you're writing to prove, you've failed. And yeah, your 22-hour old account is kind of a dead giveaway that this isn't your battle to fight -- or rather, to get others to fight for you.