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It's amazing how many guns we have, how pro 2A we are, how much pride we carry over things like the American Revolution, and we say dumb shit like violence is never the answer.
I've been telling people to prepare to resist for a bit now. The amount of "no the other team is the gun team!" is absurd. Most of these people will be useless and will happily rat out their gay neighbor when the time comes.
Violence is the last recourse of the failure to properly manage a situation.
Violence has never been the only answer. Human civilization works only because of this fact, if violence was the only answer we would never have risen beyond a baboon troop size.
Literally billions of low level conflicts are solved daily without violence.
In saying the above, "violence is never the answer" is categorically wrong. It has in fact been used throughout history to great effect, but also to terrible effect. We have to be very careful where we apply violence, it tends to make things much worse before they get better (if they do at all).
You're naive. Where do you think the authority to negotiate comes from? It's violence. The threat of force.
When you don't have that. You get the US. Where tens of millions protesting nation wide is flatly ignored if not actively stomped out by the government like so often happens here by police forces.
This is a cultural difference. American culture is steeped in violence, you venerate it in almost all of your stories.
Violence is like fire, properly harnessed, it is a tool for progress. Otherwise it is wildfire and destroys everything around it.
If those same millions of people who can organize to protest, had instead just decided to strike. I would predict that more would happen, but that requires a collectivist culture, America has been pushing itself along the individualistic line for so long, I'm not sure you have it in you to work together enough.
I was about to ask what kind of fantasy land you live in, but it appears to be right there in your username. Cheers, must be nice over there
We have our own issues, but the culture of violence is not one of them. Sure we have violent people, but our culture is not the same.