
let’s play my favorite game: “are they disingenuous or just a bit stupid” First off, may not be able to speak for 1, but personally my comment was a joke about hypocrisy. it was not mean to imply that leftists are actually adopting Republican ideology verbatim. in all honesty, it’s ridiculous if you even believe that. Secondly, regarding the examples from history: how would you describe the antifascists (aka the allied powers) that utilized violence as a means of combatting the rise of the
nazi regime? would you describe the antifascists were no better than the Nazis? third, I’m assuming you’re critique is rooted in the abandonment of the former status quo of “civility over all”, which was used as a means of maintaining the existing power dynamics as civility was valued more than justice (and arguably still is). if I am incorrect in that assumption, and your critique isn’t based off some discomfort with the idea of violence as a means of self defense from people with inherently