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"A young man who lost his eye with a rubber ball in a street protest, coincidentally meets the riot police who shot the ball in a dinner."

Holy shit. This must be a thing that cops do on purpose, then.

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.

I'm just now getting back to respond to notifications on here. Do you think the june 14th no-kings protest was enough?

Also, what do we do once we have lots of people? Controlling optics to accumulate confidence and focused, actionable outrage into positivity is good. But what then? Because I'm worried about what team Trump is working on, now that his pp is more shriveled from his metaphorical birthday spanking.

Yeah compared to a grassroots risky protest against a militant wannabe dictator with the morning starting off with political murders by the opponent.

I saw all kinds of people protesting in the least likely areas. One image burned into my brain from Saturday was a solemn older couple, walking alone, she hunched over with a walker, him walking beside her, with a no kings sign and a billowing American flag in the sunlight. I was afraid to protest and almost started crying when I drove by.

I will NEVER forget that sight.

I mean if you make your country all about business, treat it like a business, elect a business person, pander to, etc...

Oh my god, we're all slaves 😬

You know? Of I were a trump fan, this would be actually really funny and edgy.

Yeah that sounds terrible and sad all around. Thanks for the details. There's a lot to process and think about. Be safe.

chef's kiss

Tyvm

What was the shooting for? Was that guy confirmed to be the same shooter?

Wild times, regardless.

I'd bet it has more to do with optics and political strategy

What are some other fictional universes that you like?

Just not supporting jkr is a lot more clear-cut than all those other examples. It's easy unless you start justifying it.

Your logic is performatively neutral and comes from a place of callousness and complacency.

All of this counter-discussion on this topic is bad faith and/or political trolling and should be treated as such by mods and future readers.

The minute you step back and realize that somebody is really trying to argue against letting go of Harry Potter from such a weird angle, you realize how bad a take it really is. It's so bad, that it's hard to even be taken seriously beyond political strategy and wasting the time of the real people here who believe in standing up for what's right in such a shitty time in the world.

It's petty and shitty. You can consume Harry Potter and similar content if you wish, nobody will stop you. But anybody with half a brain realizes that the ethical move is to just let it go. Move on.

Oink

O->K

Kink.

Oink->Kink

Don't worry, It took me a second, too. Perspective is everything.

What is peertube?

Money?

Sustainability?

Privacy?

Purpose?

Benefits?

App?

Concise, go.

American here, living in the Seattle area. I have never had pineapple on pizza. I like it on pizza, but only if combined with other toppings that are spicy and salty. I would try it on a burger, but I already have issue with burgers being too fucking tall (ridiculous and pretentious) and melting from too much grease, so adding more toppings that are liquid prone seems, logistically, the wrong direction. But as always, I am always happy to be proven wrong.

Jfc. That can't be real. If that's real, we are much further into Idiocracy than I previously thought.

Woah. Things were different, at least 12 years ago.

I hope the ones that don't feel shame from this, soon feel deep shame, and the ones that feel shame from this act in ways that no longer cause shame.

This picture gives me claustrophobia