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i don’t condone violence, officer.

Nice try FBI

Nice try, fed

Violence is always a bad option. Sometimes however, it’s the least bad of the bad options. And knowing when that point has been reached is incredibly hard, and often misjudged.

what are you, a cop?

I don’t have an answer to the question but here’s an unrelated set of emojis 🍊🔫

Violence is a tool, like fire. Be careful and thoughtful about when and how to use it, otherwise you can burn yourself and your city.

Definitely.

It’s a violent world. If you think you can magically opt out of that, somehow, you might have lived a massively privileged life (to this point).

That being said, look at all the people in the thread who are afraid to admit possible abstract, hypothetical support for something. On a hard-left instance, of an alt platform, that I’m currently using over Tor. That should be an indicator of how much actual will there is to brave a shooting war. (You didn’t ask if we wanna revolution specifically, but this is .ml so I have to address it)

The practical takeaway of the literal question is much more nuanced and subtle.

I have long believed violence is the language of those who’s voices have been stolen. Take that however you will.

No.

Depends on the application. It’s a tool that has necessary use cases, but just like you don’t need a sledgehammer for a nail, you can certainly make things worse by using it, or slip into excess. I support the right of the oppressed to use violence to liberate themselves, and the right of those to use violence to free the oppressed.

Only against the ruling class.

I tell my kids, never start it, but if someone hits you, hit them back hard enough that they won’t want to do it again. I feel like this works all the way up to state level doctrine.

Depends. The average person? No.

The cop who just found me dumpster diving trying to find something to eat for the first time in days who screamed at me so hard I started to have a panic attack? Yeah.