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  • This is true, but with an important qualifier: Those people choose to become less peaceful. There's no unstoppable march of history to cause these things; it's real people like you and me who make them happen. If you want to escalate then you must spread that desire in your community and get them to escalate. The fact that I'm barely hearing a peep about any kind of strike is very concerning for American democracy.

    Edit: By the way I said escalate, but there's no reason that escalation must be violent. Striking and mass occupations (think occupy wall street) are very effective methods of peaceful resistance, but they're still a far cry from protesting on a weekend.

  • "Peaceful" protests (they invariably involve clashes with the military or police) do work (see: post-communist Eastern Europe, Ukraine and the Arab Spring) but when you compare something like Euromaidan to 50501 you'll see a very clear difference in boldness even despite both being nonviolent.

  • As a wise man once said: Do not obey in advance. Everything you fear the fascists will do if you give them an excuse they'll do anyway. They're not waiting for you to do a Bad Thing before they escalate; they'll escalate whatever you do because their goal is absolute power.

  • They sure like waving their sticks an awful lot in the South China Sea and pissing off all their neighbours though.

    Oh yeah absolutely, but then again look at what the US does and has done in the Americas. It more than evens out I think, hence my focus on stuff they do away from home.

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  • Total noncitizens voting in the goddamn general election has a lot to do with a law being passed a year later to combat noncitizen voting. Do you bother to read this drivel before you post it?

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  • I think you misunderstood. Hamas disarming isn't the sticking point here; the fact that it's a temporary ceasefire is. Israel wanted Hamas to disarm for a month and a half ceasefire.