• @[email protected]
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    632 months ago

    Is this how we actually make social progress? Because if this is the only effective tool we have left…

    • @[email protected]
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      392 months ago

      When peaceful options such as strikes, protests, and lobbying do not work. Once, people hit the tipping point of “I have reasons not to die to fuck it, I have nothing left.” People will choose violence.

      • @Benjaben
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        162 months ago

        Add legislation, regulation, and prosecution to the list of failed peaceful attempts as well. The citizens have tried, and tried, and tried peaceful approaches. Almost nothing works anymore, because the rich have dismantled the US.

        • @Bytemeister
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          2 months ago

          Soap box

          Ballot box

          Ammo Box < Healthcare Insurance CEOs made it to here by ignoring the other two.

    • @[email protected]
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      282 months ago

      It was bound to get to this point eventually. Who was it who said something about what happens when all avenues for change are removed except for the point of a blade?

      • @halcyoncmdr
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        192 months ago

        Many have said similar things through the years, perhaps most appropriately from a US President only 60 years ago. On March 13, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 months ago

      They’ve forgotten that all of the tools they’ve rendered inert were there to prevent us from doing this.