The protest movement in the United States is growing, but so is the global authoritarian playbook it’s up against.

  • VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    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

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      3 months ago

      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?

      • VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        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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          3 months ago

          I don’t beat up cripples

          EDIT: he did indeed slide into my DMs proposing violence

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          3 months ago

          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

          • VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            3 months ago

            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

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              3 months ago

              Cool. If you’re not gonna participate in the change, then sit down and STFU.

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                  3 months ago

                  “So I’m spent”

                  All I hear from people like you is “violence is necessary” but none of you have the balls to punch nazis or shoot at cops. Step up or shut up.

                  • VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                    3 months ago

                    do you understand the difference between an injured person who is forced to live under fascism during wartime verses a guerilla or are you just a complete and utter fuckwad troll