Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 1 day agoDefensive Votinglemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square350linkfedilinkarrow-up1661arrow-down151cross-posted to: 196
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minus-squarealmost_genocidelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·19 hours ago Civil Rights got better for a time. Widespread riots gave us the Civil Rights. Crack open Wikipedia for a minute on that champ.
minus-squarepelespirit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·19 hours agoFirst of all, Civil Rights wasn’t a revolution. Second, that’s one of the reasons I said in the last 20 years, the military wouldn’t let that happen again.
minus-squareTiresia@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·14 hours agoIt would have been if the government hadn’t acquiesced.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·12 hours agoWow it’s almost like change can occur without literal revolution after all!
minus-squarealmost_genocidelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·19 hours ago First of all, Civil Rights wasn’t a revolution. I don’t give a shit what you call it. Point is it wasn’t brought about by voting. Certainly not by voting for pro-corporate trash.
Widespread riots gave us the Civil Rights. Crack open Wikipedia for a minute on that champ.
First of all, Civil Rights wasn’t a revolution. Second, that’s one of the reasons I said in the last 20 years, the military wouldn’t let that happen again.
It would have been if the government hadn’t acquiesced.
Wow it’s almost like change can occur without literal revolution after all!
Not lasting change.
I don’t give a shit what you call it.
Point is it wasn’t brought about by voting. Certainly not by voting for pro-corporate trash.