• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    Because protesting in the way we typically do it IS useless. We need general strikes, road blockages, storming government buildings and occupying them, things that actually affect people.

    Yelling at a building and inconveniencing absolutely no one accomplishes nothing. The media downplays or ignores, like the April 5th protest, anything that doesn’t affect money.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      The Catch-22 to that is it gives Trump and the GOP the excuse to declare martial law, as they’re already itching to do, hugely extending the power of their autocracy.

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        3 days ago

        You’re mistaken if you believe they need a non-fabricated reason. The Reichstag will burn on schedule.

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        3 days ago

        I believe that they’re deliberately provoking dissenters into the slightest bit of violent action so that they can do exactly that.

    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Americans have been raised on a white washed version of the Civil Rights Movement that deliberately leaves out the tactics that actually enabled the Civil Rights Movement to succeed.