What’s the trap? I read that thing and I still have no idea. We embarrassed tf out of trump on his birthday. He had to tease that he’s starting a war with Iran to make himself feel better about it.
This is a job he has that the republicans can fire him from at any point. Protesting is letting the republicans, who are never safe even if trump is, know that their jobs are also on the line.
you understand that war with Iran and the escalation of ICE raids in response to No Kings protests is significantly worse and in no way impeded by people marching with signs right?
embarrassing Trump is kayfabe to let the Volk blow off steam
they’re doing a fascist imperial war expansion whether people “peacefully protest” or not, so it is time for better tactics or removing oneself from the conflict so as not to be useful to fascists
i was injured in peaceful activist efforts i took part in 2016-2022, wasn’t able to get real treatment in my region, tried to flee the country during Biden years, failed, now i am watching the thing i fled take shape while i try and get back on my feet with an old “war wound”
so i’m spent, i was in the movement that got abandoned 👍
the USA is doomed to a fascist imperial collapse and non-violent mass protest is not going to change that
most of my knowledge base is WW1 stuff like Tuckman and the various anarcho-communist stuff you get into around Graeber and Occupy era guys, i did significant graduate study in english and spanish studying the history of Chile, then i participated in movements for about a decade
What’s the trap? I read that thing and I still have no idea. We embarrassed tf out of trump on his birthday. He had to tease that he’s starting a war with Iran to make himself feel better about it.
This is a job he has that the republicans can fire him from at any point. Protesting is letting the republicans, who are never safe even if trump is, know that their jobs are also on the line.
you understand that war with Iran and the escalation of ICE raids in response to No Kings protests is significantly worse and in no way impeded by people marching with signs right?
embarrassing Trump is kayfabe to let the Volk blow off steam
they’re doing a fascist imperial war expansion whether people “peacefully protest” or not, so it is time for better tactics or removing oneself from the conflict so as not to be useful to fascists
Almost like non-violent protest movements are a marathon, not a sprint.
yes this is why they are ineffective against a regime that started a war yesterday and readied their deathcamps a month ago
you can’t instantly build a peaceful resistance movement after abandoning the one in 2020 and increasing funding for the violent police
USA’s shot at doing peaceful resistance is over, that’s not the shape of the problem anymore
Feel free to sit this out while real Americans save your ass.
fight me in real life, i’m in your DMs
I don’t beat up cripples
EDIT: he did indeed slide into my DMs proposing violence
They’re typically not Americans. Yesterday, one said he was Scottish and last week they wouldn’t fess up.
After taking a second look at his comments and some of the weird phrases he used in his DMs to me, that guy is 100% not an American
Yeah, I keep running into those guys too.
interesting context about the scottish guy
i was injured in peaceful activist efforts i took part in 2016-2022, wasn’t able to get real treatment in my region, tried to flee the country during Biden years, failed, now i am watching the thing i fled take shape while i try and get back on my feet with an old “war wound”
so i’m spent, i was in the movement that got abandoned 👍
the USA is doomed to a fascist imperial collapse and non-violent mass protest is not going to change that
Cool. If you’re not gonna participate in the change, then sit down and STFU.
Is this based on a careful study of violent and non-violent protest movements under regiemes in many countries? Or did you pull it out of your ass?
most of my knowledge base is WW1 stuff like Tuckman and the various anarcho-communist stuff you get into around Graeber and Occupy era guys, i did significant graduate study in english and spanish studying the history of Chile, then i participated in movements for about a decade
so yeah completely out of my ass, fritz
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