All your questions sounded rhetorical to me. I responded to what I had something to respond with.

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Are you OK? I haven’t edited any of my comments on here. Is the AI in the room with you now?

I meant to add more but was pushed for time. MAGA has not legislated its authoritarianism - not yet. So far it has been done by executive order and by judicial capture. This makes it hard to judge how resilient the USA will be to it.

hate based on someone’s religion or ethnicity is an act of violence in of itself.

Pull the other one. Violence has a meaning that every English-speaker understands, and hatred does not meet that definition.

Curious, would you have stopped the rise of Nazism by asking them nicely?

Well, the KPD strategy of meeting them in street brawls went so well, didn’t it?

That’s where we are now

So, given that you just issued me a challenge about what I’d do, do I take it you’re out in the street roughing up anyone with a MAGA hat?

If not, then I think you actually understand and agree on a practical level: the situation in the US is not as clear cut as the fight against the Nazis ended up, and which people wish to invoke when they say “punch a Nazi.”

The threshold of Nazi takeover could reasonably be taken to be the Enabling Act. There has been no equivalent in the US.

Cake day: 23 October 2023

Guess what made me leave lol

Same reason people never bothered to do a proper search when all knowledge on the internet was indexed on forums - people can’t be bothered, and want another person to find information for them before they make a real effort to find it themselves.

Most people talking about “punching Nazis” are advocating punching people who are certainly far right but who have not themselves committed or threatened any acts of violence.

The Nazis of the early 20th century were committing genocide and conquest, and the only way to stop them was through violence. But if you’re talking about “punching Nazis” in the context of the UK and Frogage, their odious policies are a long way from justifying threats of violence which are rightly not legal.

In the US where Trump is attempting a fascist takeover, time will tell whether it will take violence to dislodge. But from our position it’s easy to see why a lot of these people get banned.

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