People are getting pretty squeamish about endorsing or encouraging violence towards Musk and/or Trump and tbh I think you probably have to get over that because this is very much a Nazis Are Here Now situation.
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I know. I get it. It feels very "something *they* do" but incalculable violence is already being inflicted by them on others, and the priority has to be stopping that in its tracks.
This isn't a difference of opinion. This is actual harm being deliberately caused by people who want you dead or enslaved. It's a matter of survival. You're going to need to learn to be okay with hating them.
You will get no credit for staying your hand; not with them, not with some moral arbiter of the universe, not with those who have been and will be hurt. You don't get to stand in the ruin of the world and congratulate yourself on having not stooped to their level.
Yeah, it's going to fuck you up. But that's what *they've done to you*. That's another harm inflicted. They've removed your choice to be uninvolved, to keep your hands clean, to claim the moral high ground. They've made this into a war for survival.
And it's really at the point now where you're either complicit or not. If you're not working against this regime (and that doesn't have to involve anything overt, public, or violent) then you're helping them with your inaction.
I'm not saying everyone needs to go out and punch a Nazi (though if you can...). I'm saying you need to not be weird about it when it happens. Don't scold people for hating these fuckers and wishing harm on them.
Assuming no-one is preparing any physical resistance, and despairing about that, is a form of complying in advance. If active measures *whether violent or not* are going to succeed they will often need to be planned in complete secrecy. We need to respect that.
It's also important, though, not to make people feel they need to make themselves targets by publicly expressing what they may be privately planning. Some resistance activities need to be as public as possible. Others really need to be covert.
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