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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonetopolitics @lemmy.world•Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration RaidEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Tldr: against a fascist, much, much more lawbreaking and potentially rebellion has to take place, not just protesting.

    Idealizing the solution as simply protesting nonviolently is…naive. It’s a good start, but by absolutely no means the end goal.

    It seems that BBC article doesn’t quite do more than correlation over history, and doesn’t touch so much on what it seems to largely point to, which is “civil disobedience”.

    I felt compelled to define that term, so I looked into it, and the underlying theories and differing philosophies that seem to contrast each other.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

    Civil, specifically nonviolent, Disobedience seems to be pointed at regulation and policy, rather than a fascist coup on the government. Read the Wikipedia article’s section on Theory. It’s complicated and seems to be excerpts of various authors and philosophers trying to define and correlate how to correctly apply morality over law to the goal of successful change.

    Howard Zinn, notably does not condemn means of violence: rejects any “easy and righteous dismissal of violence”.

    It’s not a map of political change, by any means, but I think blind adherence and blind condemnation without strategy is going to backfire in the long-run if it fails, which, even when nonviolence civil disobedience is applied to simple policy change (which this is not, it is violence from the bourgeoisie who have claimed all of the top political power positions in government) only has about a 50% success rate in history; if this movement fails and people place all their hopes on legal (civil disobedience is very clearly, overwhelmingly illegal, it’s in the name) and nonviolent protesting in large numbers, their spirits may be crushed.

    I saw questionable picketing signs on Saturday, and the corrective level of commitment to what I believe to be bordering on revolution, is… There will be many who are awake and willing to do what is actually right, but there are also many who remain asleep with weak constitutions and who will face a terrifying and harsh reality.

    I wish this weren’t the case, and I do believe protesting in massive numbers is the correct start for most people. But, escalation is almost all but ensured, and we must not naively be unprepared.

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Ads when you’re pumping gasEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I’m from Washington and occasionally drive in Oregon, which is one of those states.

    1. welcome to like ten years ago?

    2. yes it’s awful. Everything is awful.

    3. you can mute them or turn down their volumes. The buttons are there so you can press them.

    4. if it’s not on the pump: yeah that’s truly evil.

    5. late stage capitalism, in some cases, is still capitalism. You could tell the station worker or owner you don’t like that and it’s bad. But good luck with them not spitting in your face in return.

    6. do you live under a rock? Are you so isolated somehow that the GAS STATION is your only exposure to this bullshit? Tell me your secrets, I need that level of peace in my life.