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The right understands that might equals right. They’re using citizen intimidation to steer judges towards rulings they want. This tactic will likely be more effective than boycotts and peaceful demonstrations. Learn something, people.
Because those of us who lean left and want to bring the fight to the spineless right are silenced on Lemmy unless these topics come up on servers that don’t remove right wing rhetoric from the left. The problem is that the bulk of moderation understands that the right will talk the talk but rarely walk the walk so they get away with it. But when the left gets upset they only complain about procedure and all the laws that the right ignores so if violence comes up it gets silenced.
The venues are the problem. Having moderators like Jordan Lund helping the right by silencing the left is why. The world is unjust as a baseline. The left has to work so much against the current because they have to work against the right AND the neoliberal left.
Believe me, I wish the right would be scared of what kind of rhetoric they are engendering from their opponents but we simply aren’t allowed without committing actual violence. And then the rhetoric becomes threats and silenced. That’s why the right just trolls and makes spineless threats - they don’t act on them so they get away with it.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. I see comments about Musk and Trump being “taken care of” in basically every post mentioning them.
They aren’t direct calls to action, but the discussion of using violence to solve the problem is definitely ongoing and not being heavily censored.
One major issue with this: The left and right are fighting for different things.
The far right would ultimately like a military dictatorship of sorts. In order to pull this off in a way the majority of the public would accept, they need people to be afraid, to have violent enemies that can only be defeated with organized military force.
The left, on the other hand, is fighting for civilian rule. This is based on the idea that laws need to apply to everyone, and that military force should not be used to suppress the public at large. In order to pull this off, it must be true that military force applied domestically is not actually necessary to have a functioning society.
Because these goals are fundamentally different, the methods of accomplishing them become different by necessity. Some methods strengthen and empower the goals of the right, other methods strengthen and empower the left. These are distinct, and it’s very important not to be manipulated into playing into the hands of your opponent.
This is well articulated. Like many, I am also frustrated by the “They go low, we go high” strategy in which Democrat politicians hamstring themselves, but on the wider scale, it is useful to bear in mind that we are fighting for a fundamentally different world than what our opponents are (though certainly it would be great if elected officials could be a little less pathetic)
ugh. jordan lund is the absolute worst. the fact that his profile pic had a chaotic good t shirt is beyond a slap in the face. we need the addresses of everyone who tries to obstruct.