Reading JL's comments in this thread reminds me of this excellent quote

"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now."

So they've gone from "we don't have a first amendment so shut up" to "we don't have any ethics so shut up." Cool.

PTB

Time to post some quotes

Others I like:

Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable.

JFK

Riots are the voice of the unheard

MLK

Well duh, its the same group Jefferson fought.

we're talking about quoting the guy who put slaves in secret cupboards and trapdoors under tables and shit right

what's the name of this shitty movement that guy ended up founding anyway? why quote him?

I continue to maintain that the best individual policy is to instance-block .world and let the redditor hoi polloi who end up there self-select onto smaller and better instances as they wake up to what a crappy place the default is. If they aren't capable of eventually waking up to that, then I don't really want them in my feed, so .world is a good place for them to be contained.

PTB. Like always for .world lol

People should move to other instances and mods of popular communities should migrate the communities as well.

Unless demanded by local legislation, that's a clear PTB in my book.

So. You have a link about the usage of force by the dogs of some broligarchic junta. Clearly unnecessary, unless someone thinks people in wheelchair are such a violent threat that it demands such measures. The group was arrested mostly for "Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding" - i.e. some "quick, find some law that fits this situation, so we can get rid of those things! Heil Chrump!".

Then you have a commenter (the_q) correctly pointing out shit won't progress unless people actually fight back. And another (PancakesCantKillMe) clearly quoting something; I don't even know (or care) who this Thomas Turbano guy is, but the second comment is clearly a quote.

So, let ask me the following: accordingly to the LW mods, is self-defence violence?

• If it is not, then those comments should not be removed as "advocating violence".
• If it is, then they're effectively promoting that people should lower themselves from human beings to punching bags of their local junta.

Don't get me wrong - I don't even think they're doing this "intentionally". I get LW mods are full of Good Intentions®, and for the sake of some idyllic vision of pacifism, where tyrants will magically stop being tyrants if you say them "tyranny bad! EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD, KIND STRANGER!". However Hell is full of good intentions.

.world sucks ass, it's a reddit clone

I mean, in fairness, Thomas Jefferson was a big advocate for violence. As far as he was concerned, if someone was infringing on your rights, the answer was to get some friends with some rifles and go to work.