If the idea of violent protests don't make you at least little scared I wonder how well you know history. At the same time, real change almost never happens without people putting their bodies on the line.

The right understands this far better than your average liberal/moderate. To be a moderate is to trust that existing systems will (mostly) work.

If those systems fail? What then? To even consider this is moderate treason.

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Mattie Lubchansky is the Associate Editor of the Nib and a cartoonist and illustrator living in Queens, NY. Their work has appeared in New York Magazine, VICE, Eater, Mad Magazine, Gothamist, The Toast, The Hairpin, Brooklyn Magazine, and their long-running webcomic Please Listen to Me. They are the co-author of Dad Magazine (Quirk, 2016) and the author of the Antifa Supersoldier Cookbook (Silver Sprocket, 2021).

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@futurebird Yeah, but how will it be? What, are people going to shoot up government buildings? Are we going to have another uni-bomber? Seriously. If people get armed and start protesting, its going to be a world of pain for normal folks just trying to live their lives peacefully. This will not go over well and the government will arrest those who cause discord in a violent manner. It's not the 1800's. It's 2023. We don't have to turn into savages to prove a point plus, in racial riots specifically, Black people don't attack other communities, they destroy their own first. It's happened so many times where people will loot Black-owned stores and businesses and start setting their own people on fire and for what, to prove a point? It just doesn't make sense. Sure, you get news coverage and then what, it just means people will fight against you, not work with you politically. I believe in the Dr. King way of doing things. Violence never solves problems.

@gocu54

What I expect and have started to see from the right is a resurgence of extra-judicial "justice" that is: lynchings. There is a blurry fringe in law enforcement, people armed and ready to take matters into their own hands. Would they harm fewer people if there were a chance their targets might be armed? I don't know.

I just can easily see it going in this direction. I don't know how to stop it.

@futurebird @gocu54 by any means necessary, someone said.