/8 At some point, in my opinion, violence against not just the government doing it and the private people joining the violence but the soft-target think-tank, media, and academic aparatus that empowered it becomes morally and philosophically justified.

Civil war. I agree. But the MAGAs won’t win.

I really think this will be killed. The GOP immigration bait and switch grift has been going on for decades. I don't see any way the oligarchy pushing Trump will allow their serf workforce to be removed. Mar-a-Lago would have zero employees...

I really wish you'd revist this and think more deeply about it. While it's abstractly correct, the suggestion, implicit or inferred, that, for example, it might be ok after the election, if Trump wins, to start killing anyone associated with the Fed Soc is deeply troubling.

Keep in mind there will be collateral damage. Start blowing up right-wing think tanks, and left-wingers will fail to distinguish between those and either more innocuously moderate/conservative or libertarian think tanks, so the conditions have to justify those deaths of innocents, too.

I was with you until this point. I agree that at *some* point it's justified. Blowing up a literal Nazi think tank in 1941 Germany would certainly have been justified. Maybe before, but how early, when you couldn't really know how things would turn out?

did you skeet this and immediately go out and shoot Donald Trump

The MAGA world won't care about any of that, but the resulting inflation in the price of bacon, among other things, will hit them right where they live. More than a few of the folks working in meat processing plants have an accent or brown skin. (Same goes for the kitchens in... IHoP, etc...)

Your timing here was a little unfortunate I have to admit :)

Let St Peter sort em out.

So roll the clock back to November 1864 and finish the job right this time? Is that where this goes?