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Spanish rightwing politician shot in face in Madrid (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Violence is supposed to be the last resort to deal with them, I don't see how this is in any way helpful, good or justified.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The last resort according to whom? It's no law of nature or physics.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The last resort according to basic self preservation.

    The other side have guns too. What do you think they're gonna do when you start killing their people?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    they're already shooting. that's why we're mad in the first place.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And sure, shoot at the fucker that's a threat to you. That's no justification to shoot at persons 2 and 3 that had similar belief systems but wasn't shooting at you.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The right is already directly and indirectly killing innocent people.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Oh, the entire right wing is killing people? So how much blood is on the hands of the elderly couple down the road that go to church every Sunday?

    Such rhetoric is not only incredibly immature and lacking of insight, it encourages the extremism that leads to violence. Grow up.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The right as in the political right wing in the context of Spain.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Ohhh okay. So, the political right wing of Spain, which is far less prone to political violence than that of, say, America?

    Do you not understand how introducing violence to that equation is an even worse idea?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Violence is already in the equation. Do you want there to be no response to the attacks on marginalized groups?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    No, you said right wing in the context of Spain, of which there has been only one single incident since the 1980s, and no one was hurt or killed in that singular instance.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_terrorism_in_Spain

    Violence is very much not in the equation in the context you yourself mentioned.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The national police did nothing wrong during the catalan referendum and riots. No politicians are advocating for the genocide of refugees by sending them back to the opressive regimes they're escaping from. No politicians are advocating for the genocide of queer people by spreading harmful retoric that leads them to suicide. There are no apologists of the Franco regime in the government.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The national police did nothing wrong during the catalan referendum and riots.

    Wasn't a far-right thing.

    No politicians are advocating for the genocide of refugees by sending them back to the opressive regimes they’re escaping from.

    Executing politicians would not solve this. It would instead make the anti immigration crowd violent.

    No politicians are advocating for the genocide of queer people by spreading harmful retoric that leads them to suicide.

    Spain is one of the world leaders in LGBTQ+ freedom. There is too much pro LGBTQ+ support here to make this a viable campaign platform. Making martyrs out of anti LGBTQ+ politicians will boost support for anti LGBTQ+ stances, not lower it.

    There are no apologists of the Franco regime in the government.

    And those government officials are about as popular as holocaust deniers at a bah mitzvah. Franco apologism is literally illegal here.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wasn't a far right thing

    yeah because using the state's police to violently attack people that are literally just going to vote doesn't sound fascist at all

    Executing politicians would not solve this. It would instead make the anti immigration crowd violent

    Just the fact that they're trying to do this already makes them violent.

    Spain is one of the world leaders in LGBTQ+ freedom. There is too much pro LGBTQ+ support here to make this a viable campaign platform. Making martyrs out of anti LGBTQ+ politicians will boost support for anti LGBTQ+ stances, not lower it.

    So we should let fascists that want to completely eliminate queer people from our society have political power because mmm violence so scary?

    And those government officials are about as popular as holocaust deniers at a bah mitzvah. Franco apologism is literally illegal here.

    Even if they aren't popular, they're there, and nothing's being done about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    yeah because using the state’s police to violently attack people that are literally just going to vote doesn’t sound fascist at all

    If you cannot tell the difference between a far right reaction and a reaction to an impending seccesion, you might be an idiot. The mere fact that you call an attempt at secession 'just going to vote' tells me you know fuck all about what went on.

    Spoiler alert: an unauthorized attempt at seccesion will end in the use of force in just about any country. Not to say that I don't think the Catalans should have a shot at independence, but your painting the actions of the Spanish government as far right violence is ... Incredibly fucking stupid.

    Just the fact that they’re trying to do this already makes them violent.

    If you cannot tell apart anti immigration rhetoric from actual violence, you might be an idiot. Or extremely sheltered.

    So we should let fascists that want to completely eliminate queer people from our society have political power because mmm violence so scary?

    If you cannot tell the difference between 'let them yell into a nearly empty room' and 'let them kill all the LGBTQ+', you might be an idiot.

    Even if they aren’t popular, they’re there, and nothing’s being done about it.

    Because the people with these views aren't doing shit with them. Thus there isn't much to punish for.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    One side is gonna lose in the end. That is all that matters. The world is ruled with violence. Non-violence only is beneficial to those currently in power.

    Basic self-preservation as you put it requires violence. How are you going to preserve yourself when you let people run around who want to opress or kill you?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    One side is gonna lose in the end.

    And there are plenty of times where this is done non violently.

    Basic self-preservation as you put it requires violence.

    Yes. As a last resort. That doesn't mean never using violence. It means using it for self preservation, not just because you disagree with them.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As a last resort is too late. If you can use violence successfully, it justifies itself. Waiting for when it's time for the last resort is too late. You're not going to stop the nazis in the spring of 1933, you would have needed to kill them in the 20s, a decade before they came to power. The same applies to any political movement.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You’re not going to stop the nazis in the spring of 1933, you would have needed to kill them in the 20s, a decade before they came to power.

    Except such thinking was how we got the Nazis in the first place. Hitler co-opted unions and parties who were extremised by such responses, and these were the basis of the Nazi party.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No the reason why we got the Nazis in the first place is because liberal institutions allowed them to exist and participate. It was mainly the fault of the German social democratic party.

    Violence is how to prevent them. For anything you can criticize the Soviet Union for, any fascist movement there would have been squashed with extreme prejudice. Just like anyone even close to fascism ideologically was terrorised.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Ah yes, because violence people who think differently to you has never led to extremism and said violence being returned to you...apart from the many, many times that it has.

    Seriously, if you think that initiating violence against right wingers is going to lead to anything except right wing extremists using violence on everyone else, you really need to look at your history books again.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    You're the one who needs to read some history books if you think violence isn't the solution. It's the only solution that works. Fascists using violence back isn't a counter-argument. That's only logical and part of the equation.

    But better than for just on the aspect of fascism, I'd really recommend Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorrel, before you condemn violence to be a last resort and inferior to pacifism or civil debate.

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