@skeletor I humbly disagree. My grandfather was paid by the government to punch Nazis. (Actually, he was issued a bayonet, but close enough.)
@pixelscience @skeletor Don't think bayonets played much role in WW II. Certainly not in the European theater at any rate. Appreciate the sentiment though. My granpaps took down 11 nazis personally. I look forward to beating his record when the fireworks start soon.
@Beggarmidas @pixelscience @skeletor I've been working out. I figure if I get strong and lucky, and act fast, I might catch one or two of the scared shitless kids before someone with any actual combat experience does me in. If I get really lucky I get one of the semi-experienced ones while they're distracted killing someone else. I actually have some fight experience so know I really have zero chance in real combat, where I'll likely be ambushed and killed before I even know it happened.
@pixelscience @skeletor Super Bayonet Nazin Punch... GO!
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That is a bit too pro-status quo, when the awful people are burning the world.
@skeletor Not so humbly disagree, we can seriously agitate to reduce the number of awful people in the world.
@Newhereish @skeletor Agreed. These politics of avoidance has allowed evil to thrive with nothing standing up to counter it. Now we must fight like our lives depend on it.
...Because they do.
@skeletor Can't erase the ugliness of the world but you can be part of its beauty 😁
@renardboy @skeletor can't erase. But you can counternarrative or fight or be visible resistance to.
We can no longer afford these politics of avoidance. Its gonna get us all killed.
@skeletor When coworkers justify toxic behavior as "Corporate", I became self employed and one day if my company will become large, I'll have zero tolerance for toxicity; and I'll redefine corporate into ethics and moral behavior first. Humans and people first.

@skeletor No. That's not an answer. That's just conflict avoidance. THat's how you end up with fascists gaining power right under your nose until they become strong enough to kill you and everyone like you.

What you propose is little more than a maximally painful way to be forcefully euthanized.

@skeletor not sure, punching some septums and jailing some crooks sounds like a valid strat.
@skeletor Nah, absolutely not. That's how the biggots and fascists win.
@skeletor @briankrebs We can also do what we need to protect ourselves and others from them.
@skeletor be the change you want to see right skeletor?
@skeletor it's not enough. silence is compliance. I'm reminded of that scene from The Pianist where one says they're a significant number of people against the nazis... the other says let's wait... they didn't fight back and they cramped into a cargo train, shipped to their death.
@skeletor going to disagree. Being awful to awful people is a civic duty.
@skeletor Speak for yourself 😁