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We’ve reached a point where we have 2 separate discussions on 2 diff topics (Communism, and arms/militias) so I’ll try and be brief.
-The Oath Keepers have threatened or implied violence several times: such as calling for John McCain to hanged for (their perception of) “treason”, attending the showdown with Cliven Bundy, or when they posted an article on their website that if Hillary won in 2016, the result would be Civil War. In the Kim Davis situation, they offered to be her armed security detail to “protect” her from being arrested if she was found in contempt of court again. That is at the very least for the purpose of intimidation and threat of violence. It doesn’t matter if they “felt” a judge exceeded their authority. We have courts, we have Due Process. They don’t get to play soldier every time they don’t like a court case.
And I have no idea what your links about presidents calling up militias have to do with anything other than proving my point: armed militias, be they right-wing or left-wing, are not properly formed and are not currently called upon by any Constitutional means.
We're talking about two different things because you're deflecting. You don't want to focus on the imminent threat that's coming from the left.
Militias are fighting the ANTIFA communist insurgency and that's what they were meant for.
Like I said, when half baked intellectuals occupy positions of power in the government and civil service, people will take it upon themselves.
So believe it or not, we have some points of agreement. The problem though, is extremists—and both sides have them. Are there people on the left that take things like “cancel culture” too far? Abso-fucking-lutely there are. I speak out against those people, same as you do. But you seem blind to the transgressions happening on your side. You don’t like that one BLM member is a fan of Maduro? That’s totally understandable. Personally, I don’t particularly like the fact that our President is a fan of Duterte, Kim, and Putin. As another example, take the Peterson video you posted.
At about 3:20, John Anderson says that we try and silence debate, and shut down language so that it’s hard to have a debate. But I haven’t tried to shut down debate, I relish and enjoy debate. In terms of shutting down language, this is not what “the left” do, it’s what extremists do. After all, isn’t that precisely what terms like Communist, Marxist, TDS, SJW, White Knight, Snowflake, Virtue Signal, and the like are meant to do? They act as substitutes for actual thought and discourse, and you’ve used it for those ends repeatedly. I don’t think you do it on purpose though.
(Oh and for the record: I’m not a communist, socialist, or Marxist. I don’t actually think Marxism is a workable practical philosophy, FWIW.)
But what about the right!!!!
The left occupies the positions of power. They are Marxist social justice warriors that believe they need to dismantle the West. They will take everyone rights and freedom away just like they are doing in other Western countries.
You're not debating, you're deflecting. No, Communist, Marxist, SJW is not meant to shut anything down. What a sad way to get people to stop calling it what it is.
People go bananas over the Nazi ideology and believe it should be purged. But not communist ideologies and communist psychological warfare which has murdered far more than any other ideology.