Anonymous
asked:
G-d. I am so fucking nervous about where this anti-fascist stuff's going. I feel like I'm an island in a sea of an increasingly violent left-wing culture. I lean left and libertarian. I sincerely feel that initiating the use of force is wrong. I have a kid. I don't want her growing up in the middle of a civil war or a totalitarian regime, and I feel like one or the other's inevitable. People keep telling me 'if there are Nazi sympathizers in power, why shouldn't we use violence', but no, _no_...
sinesalvatorem
answered:

*hugs*

I know how you feel. I’m terrified. But I think in the coming months it’ll settle down a little as the left realises that Trump isn’t going to run away scared and the Administration realises that people are actually going to resist if they do anything egregious, and we’ll reach a lower-energy-if-still-unstable equilibrium.

I’m still not happy about anything that’s happening, though. You have all of my sympathy. Feel free to message me any time.

mitigatedchaos

If Orange Capitalism Man has any idea what he’s doing - and my estimate is like 50:50 he does vs does not - his plan works based on creating outrage on demand to suit his purposes.  He can only extract so much outrage that way until outrage reserves are tapped out and people start pursuing other methods that involve more argumentation and less use of social power.

Probably.  I’m only estimating that those outrage reserves are finite.

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