Fools often respond to calls for militant action against the fascist state with the cliché "That's exactly what they want! Don't give them an excuse!"
This is horseshit of the highest order.
§ What they want ^
No government wants to spark broad militant resistance. Why would they? That's their biggest fear!
The entire source of their power is all the men with guns they have. The last thing they want is for their force monopoly to be challenged.
The only real departure fascism makes from liberalism is doing away with the window-dressing of rules, the make-believe that their power comes from anywhere but the boots they can put on our throats. This is why it's fragile: people aren't as confused by bureaucratic pretend-playing as they are under other forms of government because they see the state flagrantly break its own rules all the time.
What the regime wants is a docile population content to wait for the next rigged election.
§ Excuses, excuses ^
What excuse have they ever needed for anything they've done?
What excess of activism did they need to justify spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the paramilitary that roams our country rounding up people of color and stuffing them into concentration camps?
Did our steady flow of immigrants --- the best-behaved of inhabitants, boons to our culture and economy --- suddenly do something egregious to justify racial cleansing?
Did Alex Pretti "give them an excuse" to execute him in the street when he tried to help up a woman they shoved to the ground?
Did Renée Good ask to be blown apart while her wife looked on in horror by blocking them with her car?
When they feel they need an excuse, they just make one up. They say their victims committed crimes, had a gun, or bumped them with their car. They lie constantly. It makes zero difference what the reality is. We've all seen them murder with impunity, repeatedly.
This line of reasoning is nothing more than a repetition of fascist propaganda. It exonerates them of their actions and shifts the blame onto their victims.
Worst of all, it discourages people from taking the very steps required to end fascism.