‘Try’ is the word. But they’re soft and won’t follow through and achieve shit. I’ve neglected to weigh in on this because I don’t like even veering towards toxic machismo but these people are goddamn fucking pussies little pussycats veal cutlets. If your entire politics is animated by being content and comfortable yet still afraid, you don’t just magically become a fucking badass overnight ready to commit terrorism and murder no matter how many walmart guns you buy.
Honest to God, I’ve felt weird every time I’ve alluded to this in full (see above: toxic machismo, even though I’ve joked “I punched my first nazi when I was 13 and haven’t stopped since!”) but I used to hang out with the Progressive Labor Party and we’d travel out of county or state to neo-nazi and kkk rallies (because, related, by that time they were scared to set foot in Cook County much less Chicago) to fight them. Not, like, protest/counterprotest but violently run them off. And we were undefeated.
The only reason this, that they’re little baby soft Charmin™ wipes, seems otherwise now is two reasons: 1, they only show up at places with no culture of violently running them off and, even bigger, 2, they use social media to LARP and share pics/vids of them shit talking with their little arsenals so much that they’ve gotten high on their own supply, to the point that they’ve given you all a contact high!
Like ok, @oneeyedtripping posted this in the trump thread,
https://twitter.com/wxandnews/status/1322575404016803840
Stim said this,
and I was like, how in the fuck did anybody involved with that nonsense not see that as the only outcome?!?
Another example, and I say this not to encourage violence or sound tough but to put people’s minds at ease: I’ve mentioned my sister before. Attorney downtown Chicago. Wears pantsuits and shit. But she actually lives across the border in rural Indiana and commutes. And she owns multiple guns. All her liberal and leftist Indiana friends own multiple guns. These MAGA chuds are not going to rich white areas, they’re not going to the hood, and their rural poor and working class white opponents are like, “Bitch I got guns too, you don’t scare me.”
This is all something you don’t have to worry about.