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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I generally agree, but how is that different from Jan 6?
That was 2,000 people showing up on Congress' doorstep to do damage.
I'm don't mind being a hypocrite when it's for the working class, but I hope we have a better argument than "it's good when my team does it."
I mean quite literally, yes. There's a lot of things that are justifiable against an evil that aren't against a good. Now people's opinions on what is good differ, and that's a dangerous thing that needs to be considered. But yeah, violence is acceptable against authoritarianism and not acceptable against democracy.
how is it different? it isn’t and that is fine. because you are treating leftists as some kind of side or team when in reality far left “extremism” is largely in response to authoritarian violence and fascism. it is a reaction to oppression, it isn’t an aimless violence or a way to enforce your ideology on to others.
it is different because we have the moral high ground here. have some respect for your beliefs and agree that you are right. we are on the right side of history and we have to act like it or we are going to fucking lose.
That doesn't mean I shouldn't question/interrogate them.
History is full of people who've done horrible things because they were convinced of the Righteousness of their cause.
*points in MAGA's general direction*
I show up to my local protests and do firearms training (just in case,) but that doesn't mean I'm going stop thinking about where the line should be drawn.
The difference between treason and a revolution is which side wins at the end.
Just make sure you're enough people doing it.