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Wanting and doing are not the same.
Yes, and? Do you think everyone who subscribes to Nazism has stubbed the toe of a single person, let alone kill someone, let alone commit genocide? Most of them also only want to kill people, and violence is not solved with more violence. That just leads to a warring and unstable society,and an escalation of levels of violence. This can be avoided if you use non violent methods, like those mentioned in my other comment.
Use violence when they have started WW3. Not when they are peaceful members of society not causing any harm to people. Can't you see the difference between when they are killing people and when they are keeping to themselves?
Responding with violence to levels of violence that are manageable and not yet a war will indeed lead to escalation of violence, and possibly a war, but that seems to be what you want, so you have an excuse to kill Nazis. Deescalation of violence should be the left wing mindset when confronted with violence, to try and bring down the violence with non violent means, and make the Nazis realise that gay and trans people aren't so bad. Otherwise they are perfectly justified in calling left wing people cancel culture and sensitive. We should want to refute those claims, not enforce them.
Why do they get to decide what you think?
They'll start WW3 if we leave them alone.
In hindsight, maybe we should have seen the writing on the wall and stopped them before they started causing harm to people.
Of course, try and stop them, but not by saying in your left wing echo chamber that you want to kill them. Nobody's actually going to kill the Nazis, they won't see the comment, and if they do all it will do is drive them further apart and make them firmer in their beliefs.
If Nazis scatter like rats they'll get hunted like rats.
What goes around comes around.
I'd rather not have WW3. Since this lesson has already been learned and all we can stop it first.
You want to wait for WW3 to start before taking action?