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Yeah, you got me, clearly the only way that someone could disagree with you, is because they're a fake bot shill with a fake account history because that's the only plausible reality in which you could be wrong about something.
There's definitely no way that I spent hours last week arguing against violence in a leftist memes community, because I am clearly a bot.
Give me a break.
I don't know, it sounds like a pretty convincing argument to me.
It's a strange take to say "you're wasting your time trying to get legislation passed" I mean, that's one of the primary ways you change anything in a country...
And it's plain stupid to say the only solution to a problem is the "complete abolition of capitalism" and then the next moment, suggest someone else is asking the impossible by trying to get some minor policy changed... That's just bonkers. I mean, that simply destroys your credibility for the rest of the conversation, it's gone.
Yeah, and I spent the last week ice skating on Europa and coaching the Bears to victory.
You can't appeal to your own authority on the Internet, we're all anonymous strangers who may as well have just popped into existence 15 seconds ago (in some cases, very literally).
Don't push ideas that look like they're suggesting violence, if you're on my side on that idea then you'll have no trouble with my position of 'violence bad' even if it hurt your feelings a little bit.
I'm not appealing to authority at all, I was just explaining that I was a leftist because your comment seemed to suggest I was encouraging people to "give up", which is the exact opposite of what I want. I want people to get involved in direct action, civil resistance, and yes, acts of sabotage against the regime.
I am firmly of the opinion that violence never makes anything better, but I completely understand why people, even leftists, advocate for violence. I don't think they're fake, or bots, I just think they are leftists who have been socialised in our mainstream media environment which teaches us that violence is a solution to our problems.
I think your response was a bit silly, and jumped to a lot of conclusions, but it didn't hurt my feelings. I want to continue to reiterate that reforms to capitalism merely prolong it, and misuses the energy of activists which could be far better spent on actually unionizing, organizing, building solidarity, and direct action.