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Somewhat funny to read all these holy, well-tamed, moral people condemning violence with most dumb, ungrounded "violence bad" that cannot even hold a second of scrutiny.

Yes, violence shouldn't be the first resort, and when violence is unleashed innocent suffer as well, but there is a great difference between choosing not to use violence due to whatever consideration, and being so toothless and tamed that a sight of dog that finally bites when being constantly beaten sickens you.



I agree. A lot of commenters who have probably had privileged lives and never faced a situation where violence was, in fact, the answer.


I think it’s the opposite: many of these keyboard warriors advocating for violence in 2026 in America have no fucking clue what they’re advocating for, or how stupid they sound.


It's not good for this sort of disagree with a CEO stuff. Fighting Hitler is ok. Typed from England where we fought Hitler but don't generally go for CEOs. Is that privileged?


And they live in a country where the industry of violence is the largest slice of government budget.



Where violence is acceptable as a tool, it empowers "cruel humans" on average much more than "beaten dogs".


True, but at one point the calculus shift to justifying that risk. Basically when the beaten dogs outnumber the cruel humans by alot


If you are getting bombed by the opposing country, is a ballot going to stop that?

We're not on first resort anymore, people are dying because they cannot afford living.




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