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Yeah man, let me make my progressive social movement while under the rule of people who are happy to use violence and other nefarious means to suppress any sort
by dttze 2y ago
Yeah man, let me make my progressive social movement while under the rule of people who are happy to use violence and other nefarious means to suppress any sort of positive change that threatens their power. If only people had made movements against the Iraq war and bank bailouts in 08, things would be so much different now.
- PaulHoule 2y agoSame as its ever been. Back in the 1960s you had Jewish people who learned something in general from how their own people were oppressed and went down to the US South and gave their lives for the civil rights movement. The author doesn't want to face any consequences for his activism but this essay makes it clear you have to take your lumps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau) A woman who rides horses at our barn used to run the soup kitchen in Ithaca but she got arrested and spent time in federal prison because she crashed the gate at a facility where they store nuclear weapons. There's a big difference between that and the people who share hateful memes on social and think they are 'activists'.