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minus-square@chitak166linkEnglish54•1 year agoThe solution is to break the social contract on both sides. Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•1 year agoNothing will be accomplished without violence.
minus-square@endhitslinkEnglish9•1 year agoCivil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoAgreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoCivil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
minus-square@steeznsonlinkEnglish6•1 year agoThat is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoSo what’s your complaint? They did what you said they should do.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoHe also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.
minus-square@steeznsonlinkEnglish1•1 year agoMy understanding was that he did some kind of tacit endorsement of necklacing. Can’t recall if he was popularising songs that described it or something. However pretty sure he was not personally involved.
The solution is to break the social contract on both sides.
Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
Nothing will be accomplished without violence.
Civil disobedience, more likely.
Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
Agreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
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Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
That is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.
So what’s your complaint? They did what you said they should do.
He also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.
My understanding was that he did some kind of tacit endorsement of necklacing. Can’t recall if he was popularising songs that described it or something. However pretty sure he was not personally involved.
Por que no los dos?