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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

your argument here is that violence is the answer, then please, tell me how much violence does it take for you to change your core beliefs?

No reason to force a false dichotomy, I don't think anyone here is saying that violence is the answer to every problem. Just that sometimes it's the only appropriate response to people who are themselves willing to do violence.

how much violence does it take for you to change your core beliefs? Because for me the answer is that no amount is enough. At best it'll just make me hide them.

That's the entire point of fascism. Fascist don't actually care about actually swaying everyone to their ideology. All they have to do is achieve a monopoly of violence and use it to make sure people are too afraid to stand up to them.

Now, because I know it doesn't work on me I thus don't expect it to work on other people either.

A confident claim from someone who's likely never experienced the level violence that can be levied by an oppressive regime.