You're absolutely right. However, they were going to find a reason regardless, since violence was always their end goal.

If it wasn't this idiot it would have been something else: Trump losing the election is any easy one. The "Boogaloo crowd" resorting to violence was inevitable -- the only thing that has changed is we can no longer pretend it's tomorrow's problem.

Communism: an economic theory where the stated goal is achieving socio-economic equality.

Social conservationism: a social theory based on returning to regressive "traditional values" and oppression of "deviants".

Totally the same thing.

The tired, old trope of "Every accusation is a confession" tends to be true with conservatives.

"Hey ... so your kitchen is on fire. You should probably grab a pair of pants."

For all their many flaws: Democrats leave office without attempting coups when they lose.

It's a lack of negative reinforcement. Normal people face negative reinforcement every single day: if you screw up you lose something. Relationships, jobs, money, etc.

After a certain amount of wealth the negative reinforcement starts to disappear. You don't need to give a shit about what "little people" think when you can always find an audience that agrees with you. When people will put up with your shit because you're the one footing the bill. When expensive mistakes are pennies to you.

Well you're entitled to your option ... but it's a dumb one and you should feel bad about having it. Also, I'm going to needless drag unrelated politics into this.

I went the career firefighter route.

Pros: tons of time off, rewarding, never boring, great pay and benefits. Will actually be able to retire at 55.

Cons: pretty much guaranteed to get cancer and it's not even the expected stuff from fires. The AFFF foam we used for years had PFAS -- a carcinogen. Even better, it turns out even brand new, unused turnout gear is absolutely saturated in PFAS too.

Oh and stress, cumulative injuries, etc.

A disturbing percentage of people never outgrow highschool.

The particular "communists" in question on Lemmy are at worst naive idealists. They're not calling for fundamental human rights being stripped away or genocide. They're egalitarians -- regardless of if you believe them to be misguided or not.

At their core the "communists" on here are for the most part far better human beings than the fascists. I'd rather deal with their talk of "class warfare", "eating the rich", and hatred of capitalism than hearing about how queer people should be killed.

They're 90% of FOSS development. Also, their "daily driver" is an old thinkpad running linux -- often Arch.

The French flag had a guillotine with the "snoo" character labeled "Spez" in it. It's since been removed.