Happy rule day
Happy rule day
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The local reenactors' reading out the Grievances this year certainly hits a bit different.
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just you wait, they're gonna make the reenactments illegal for being "un-american" or sth
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Thank you comrade <3
The US government causes so much suffering across the world. The ability of the world to still distinguish between estadounidense and our institutions is cherished.
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Thank you! #solidarityforever
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As you can see, the hundredth monkey effect seems more like spitting in one hand and wishing in the other.
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We need to grow our numbers! The only way we can do that is with continued non-violent organized protest. Violence will only reduce our numbers and suppress our resistance.
Erica Chenoweth has a very well researched presentation on the success of non-violent resistance overthrowing dictatorships with only 3.5% of the population. I highly recommend it.
Come out today for the Free America protest! We also have the Good Trouble Lives On protest on July 17th.
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The only way we can do that is with continued non-violent organized protest. Violence will only reduce our numbers and suppress our resistance.
I emphatically reject these claims. Both nonviolent and violent resistance is necessary, and in fact they need to collaborate. The following quote from the Black Catalyst Revolt Guide is relevant:
If we are to learn from the successful movements of the past, we can see that all successful pressure has been the collusion of the peaceful and non-peaceful aspects of the movement, such that the peaceful party can lobby the state to concede, saying to them “now see? Wouldn’t you rather deal with me than them? Sit down and make some concessions to those suffering people.” Meanwhile, the non-peaceful protesters escalate the aggression of their actions such as to put a clock on the state. Direct action should therefore not be seen as a chaotic byproduct to be avoided. It should instead be seen as a necessity as to extract outcomes for the movement. Ultimately, if the demands of the protests are not met, revolution should be the threat. In this way, we are to transform the government to our whims, not vise versa.
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You should watch the Eric's Chenowith video that was linked in the above comment
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Violent resistance is a great way to get arrested or killed, scare people away from resistance for fear of their safety, and embolden fascism by turning a constitutionally protected peaceful resistance into a domestic threat.
How many people with guns do you estimate it takes to overthrow the largest military in the world by force?
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Also remember that economics is a hella important consideration. Most conflicts are decided by who can stay solvent longer.
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such a disgusting rhetoric to peddle non-violence while promoting 50501, a white supremacist organization that hires veterans in "peacekeeping" roles to shoot antifascists and anyone who's not white.
playing peace police is inherently a violent act because taking a stand against all the oppressed people who respond back in the only language that the state understands reinforces white supremacist systems.
instead of supporting libs that cooperate with state repression and enable fascism, donate to Gamboa's legal fund, join anti-authoritarian grassroots orgs and support your local antifascists.
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What that peacekeeper did was abhorrent, and is under investigation. Are all Republicans good because Rand Paul voted against the budget reconciliation bill? Your inflammatory takes out you as an accelerationist.
You do understand that we’ve grown our protests from a few hundred thousand to ~10M in four months with this method, right? Yet you’re encouraging small factions of violence which have repeatedly proven throughout history to have failed against dictatorships?
Your agenda is clear. Keep your accelerationist takes out of my nation, comrade.
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America is too violent. Any turn that involves racial justice or queer rights will be resisted with staggering violence. Anything that liberates children. Anything that sevures womens' rights or reduces the power if the church.
Hell, anything that tries to cut police funding or end slavery would be stepped on so hard. It will not be nonviolent, though many non violent things are also necessary to get a good outcome. I wish the choice of whether things get violent or not were ours, but it simply isn't.
Getting slaughtered serenely is not peaceful or nonviolent. Its masochistic.
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I'm not very hopeful, maybe they will watch a tv show or play a videogame about revolting.
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Okay but i was finishing watching 'andor' last week and fell behind on chores like keeping my window seals good (the tape flexes and sometimes unsticks with the summer heat) and the tear gas started leaking in and it was so annoying.
So, you know, it's almost as good.
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The revolution in question: endless amount of protests that are supported by "progressive bilionaires" like il Duce intended
Kinda wish they didn't have an actual revolution yet, cause at this point all it'd cause is a fuckton of deaths just to put a group like democrats back in power, then for reactionaries to go back into power democratically a couple years later. People there are genuinely blind to their predicament still, thinking the problem is just Trump.
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The democrats are part of the system today and people have yet to fully realize that. We need a grounds-up new approach to politics. That takes time to organically grow.
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I know in a few cities in CA tgat i have any vibe check on, the dems, especially after trying so hard to ratfuck zohran the destroyer, do not have much good will
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Gotta any specific billionaires you think are paying protestors?
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A prominent recent example is Christy Walton paying to promote the No Kings protest.
Though I do think I worded my comment a bit poorly I admit, meant it more in a collaborating with billionaires type of deal as opposed to right-wing conspiracies where protestors are paid by foreigners or some shit
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i wish me a very get the fuck out of this fucking country as soon as i can