• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    If it’s not about literally killing them then using that language is completely counter productive. Say what you mean and mean what you say. You wouldn’t give this charitable view to what your opponent is saying either.

    • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, maybe we should just do away completely with metaphor, memes, and rhetoric. That will surely be a fun way to live.

      But you’re right. I wouldn’t give my opponent a charitable view if they were saying something like this. Because they have ludicrously more resources than I do and a history of enacting harm.

      This isn’t a call to violence. That would require a specific group or person to be called out with a plan to cause harm.