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Surely the powerful can't say no to any of that.
they wouldn't dare
If your argument here is that violence is the answer, then please, tell me how much violence does it take for you to change your core beliefs? Because for me the answer is that no amount is enough. At best it'll just make me hide them. Now, because I know it doesn't work on me I thus don't expect it to work on other people either.
Violence isn't always the answer.
But violence is very often the answer.
I... Don't think the violence needs to change minds.
Why not, kill enough protestors and eventually the rest won't want to protest any more. See? Changing hearts and minds, one machinegun spray at a time. Like the Marines in Afghanistan.
/s
No reason to force a false dichotomy, I don't think anyone here is saying that violence is the answer to every problem. Just that sometimes it's the only appropriate response to people who are themselves willing to do violence.
That's the entire point of fascism. Fascist don't actually care about actually swaying everyone to their ideology. All they have to do is achieve a monopoly of violence and use it to make sure people are too afraid to stand up to them.
A confident claim from someone who's likely never experienced the level violence that can be levied by an oppressive regime.