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Detroit area women get 'plantation group' texts, among wave of racist messages nationwide
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I think its naive to think that every single armed conflict in history could have been avoided if only certain people had the vision to "take the path of peace," whatever that means in the circumstance. Since peace requires at least two opposing parties, you can also derive it to mean "we would have peace if bad, violent people weren't bad and violent" which is simply a waste of breath and keystrokes to say.
Bad people are bad. Very rarely can we persuade them to be otherwise. Sometimes they have to be fought, because the alternative is to let them abuse and kill you.
I'll give you this, I think the only path to avoiding widespread violence in the near future is a mutual, peaceful secession of blue states. I think that is extremely unlikely given that the GOP has nearly all the cards and I believe is in no spirits to negotiate. And it basically says "fuck you, you're on your own" to vulnerable people in red states.
The most I'm willing to say on a public forum right now is that circumstances will be more complex than you're laying them out as.