It’s educate, AGITATE, organize

edit: putting this at the top so people understand the basis for this:

You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

Letter from Birmingham, MLK

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    So your aim is only to cast aspersions on Democrats, got it.

    Surely you’re aware of the two-party system of politics in the United States, one where if Democrats lose, Republicans win, and those Republicans will do the genocide you claim to hate so much even harder, not to mention royally fucking things up for huge swaths of people domestically, handing Ukraine over to Russia (which extends to directly threatening the rest of Europe/NATO), and walking away from Taiwan, for starters.

    You don’t want to “end genocide,” you want to get Republicans elected.

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      5 months ago

      Hey now let’s not forget, abandoning Ukraine and Taiwan means that Russia and China get to do some genocide as well.

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      So your aim is only to cast aspersions on Democrats, got it.

      Because they are the ones who claim to agree, but apparently lack sufficient motivation to stop obstructing progress.

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        5 months ago

        but apparently lack sufficient motivation to stop obstructing progress.

        “Yeah, a fascist victory will motivate those fuckers! Take that, moderates! Maybe next election you’ll-”

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            5 months ago

            Address it… how? By swapping their position and losing even more votes from those with a pro-Israel position?

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              By swapping their position and losing even more votes from those with a pro-Israel position?

              Either by swapping their position and making their case to those who disagree with it,

              or

              keeping their position and attempt justifying it to those who disagree with it

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                5 months ago

                keeping their position and attempt justifying it to those who disagree with it

                The fuck do you think they’ve been doing.

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                  The problem with that is their position is “let’s keep supporting genocide” which isn’t a justifiable position.

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                  Nothing particularly convincing to anyone paying attention.

                  I have yet to hear their justification on ignoring the war crimes committed by an ally. I’ll happily ruminate on it if I did.

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                    Nothing particularly convincing to anyone paying attention.

                    Okay, so they are doing what you want them too, you just still don’t like it enough to work to stop fascism.