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It’s 5am on a Saturday. What millions of actions do you suggest, O just-as-wordy-yet-holier-than-thou HN commentor?
by jachee 7mo ago
It’s 5am on a Saturday. What millions of actions do you suggest, O just-as-wordy-yet-holier-than-thou HN commentor?
- agmater 7mo agohttps://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/ https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/ here's some to get you started
- jachee 7mo agoThe first 17 of those are all variations on “make words”. :P
- lejalv 7mo agoDo you know how the deadliest conflict of the XXth century eventually came to be? The words of one Adolf Hitler. Don't dismiss words: they are the necessary link between (individual) thoughts and collective deeds. PS. Trump also got there with words: speeches, slogans, imprecations
- jachee 7mo agoI’m not the one saying “you lot only do words”, this one is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193041
- khalic 7mo agoAssuming this is in good faith: think about it yourself, are you seriously waiting for people to tell you what to do? Use your critical thinking skills, read history about similar situations. If you can't, find someone OFFLINE that will. And don't go telling your plans on the web.
- xorcist 7mo agoNo one can do everything but everyone can do something. If you are in law enforcement, do not follow clearly unlawful orders. The president is not your boss. This is a functioning democracy. If you are a librarian, do not hide otherwise lawful books that the current administration dislikes. If you are in logistics, do not collect obviously unconstitutional taxes. Make sure to challenge them in courts first. If you are in a university, stick to what is true and scientifically sound. Do not hide inconvenient truths. If you are a baker, do not refuse to make a rainbow colored cake just because you are worried what the people wearing metaphorically brown shirts might say. The list goes on and on and on. This has been well documented throughout history. Fascism needs a seed to thrive, and that seed is people complying in advance. Not with actual laws, but with the idea what direction the law will take, just because it's easier for them. People not helping other people because immigration is not in vogue right now and who knows what the neighbors might say.
- _bohm 7mo agoGet organized. Join a mass movement, a local group or a union. There are many people doing things. Stop complaining then excusing yourself for not being one of them.