In addition to This Nonviolent Stuff, please go read The Death of Democracy, about exactly how the Nazis took power.

Contrary to Cold War revisionism (which had to paint the commies as villians), the tactic of the SPD to avoid violent confrontation with the right (which is why they unleashed the Freikorps on the left) was never going to work. The conservatives, and crucially Hindenberg, saw any democratic or socialist government as unacceptable. Compromises and attempting to keep the peace actually just let the Nazis gather strength and normalize their own violence.

The lesson here is clear - deciding to unilaterally reject violence against a violent opponent just means you give them the luxury of deciding when to strike, and that is usually fatal. Ask the dead in MN if the US administration is non-violent.

Yeah, SRA member, I don’t disagree. But just talking in terms of that comment.

where unions were destroyed by an overwhelming state violence.

Hitler talked about exactly this - waiting just makes it worse, and your choices are fighting or full submission.

“Only one danger could have jeopardised this development — if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.”

it’s quite clear that the regime is looking for an excuse to call martial law, cancel the elections, and unleash the military upon all who oppose it.

They’re not going to wait for an excuse, or they’ll make one. You’re dealing with a false choice here.

, it’d be damned foolish not to even try the non-violent path considering how effective its been demonstrated to be

It hasn’t been. I would highly recommend a book called This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, which is about exactly the use of non-violence in the US Civil Rights movement - the reality as opposed to the myth that has been forced down since. The tl;dr; is this - the movement was all nonviolent, it was a tactic that also recognized it had violence in riots to offer as another path, and most importantly, the US cared about public opinion internationally due to competition with the USSR. None of that is applicable here.

Uh this is saying that the right wing people yelling they needed guns to stop government tyranny are going away with it. Your conspiracy theory shit isn’t even responding to the right comments.

you need to read US labor history if you think it’s been unarmed. See Blair Mountain.

There’s a reason that the White Rose is celebrated by those who find non-violence worth sacrificing any results to.

Is it ads for paid users as well?

I mean, the proletarinization of the petit bourgeois isn’t exactly something nobody predicted . . .

I think the Digital Euro is going to be a better idea long term - taking off the hidden tax of payment processor fees is going to make businesses and people richer.

Ah shit, I can’t get through the blue screens!

I am talking about the Epstein files coverup

Yes, the one enabled by the Biden administration.

Whether that was through malice or incompetence is immaterial.

Enjoying your tea party with your little straw man?

Of course I “blame” the GOP for their agenda. But the GOP doesn’t pretend to oppose the GOP yet fail to do so.

The Democrats do.

Thanks for reassuring us there’s no point to electing Democrats to stop the GOP agenda or politicians.

I don’t disagree. Class Rules Everything Around Me.

in my experience, it’s liberals, not leftists, doing that more often

It wasn’t really Dean - though as an ex-Deanite, maybe I’m biased.

Dean was elected in spite of lots of the Democratic establishment. And they did oppose Obama (for little reason it turned out, he didn’t block them).

With Obama, who I volunteered for in 2008, I can say for sure lots of the support thought that we were cleaning house of the Dem leadership, only to see Larry Summers and the like immediately brought back in. My big question is really if the fix was always in, or if Obama got push back and immediately gave up. Either seems likely.

“hey guys, I know we’re saying that Trump is an existential threat to the US, but leaking documents to stop him would violate norms. So we won’t. We’ll just blame the left when we lose.”

for the first time in 30 years

Dean had the 50 state strategy in 2006. Which paid off in 2008, with the largest Dem win in generations.

That of course was quickly squandered.