We are already at war, whether we choose to believe it or not. This will only escalate. The appropriate reaction is neither panic, nor depression, nor indifference - but to learn more, to start conversations, to make plans, to become stronger together, to choose the world we want https://twitter.com/BetasGamma/status/1329490360335167488

Please understand that the only thing that will deter organized fascist violence is the credible threat of violence in return. These men - and they are, overwhelmingly, men - are fundamentally cowards who espouse an ideology of cowardice. They will not act if they are afraid.

This does not mean adopting the toxic macho gun culture of the far right, or the twee attitude towards revolutionary violence occasionally found in lefty memes of guillotines. It means understanding the role of community armed self-defense in context: https://www.scottcrow.org/liberatory-community-armed-selfdefense-approaches-toward-a-theory