Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too.

peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A crowd of hundreds blocking a bridge is. People blocking entrances to government buildings is. People surrounding bases is. People flooding the capitol or disrupting the discourse of policy is. The reason they use the military and ICE is because they are terrified that people will remember that even 1% of the US doing this far outnumbers them.

  The absolute whining from people when they are moderately inconvenienced is depressing. “Sure, death camps are bad but did they have to block the bridge? I’m going to be late for my brunch!” Well, the person in a camp is going to be late for stuff, too.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Which is why it’s effective if coordinated and done well. It makes things relevant immediately for the public, for officials, for businesses.

    It will annoy them to the point of either joining them out of frustration, or at least saying “do something!” To the government.

    I have no misconceptions that they will happily massacre civilians when those orders arrive, but until those orders arrive they are only trying to intimidate. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the current orders are quite simply: “Walk and look scary.”

    They are clearly more afraid of us than them. They’re nothing more than buzzing insects with stingers.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s a reason why Marsha P. Johnson is remembered.

  For throwing the first fucking brick.

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• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So basically what the climate protesters are doing.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    YES! As my aunt would tell me: if you aren’t getting arrested, you aren’t making an impact.

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  • FerretyFever0@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ehhhh.... they're more so just being a bit... annoying once in a while. They make the cause look bad sometimes. Throwing soup on a van Gogh just looks a little dumb.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because only the annoying parts get put into oligarch-controlled media.

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    • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I really wish climate protesters grew some ovaries and literally killed CEOs with firearms, but they are are all limp-dick pacifists and nothing is being done to cease the degeneration of climate change in the past 50 years.

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      • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You could buy a gun and do it yourself. Why does it need to be someone else’s job to do it for you?

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      • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why do you wish that?

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The only way you are hearing about protesters on privately owned media is if those billionaires want you to hear about them.

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• ssroxnak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Non violent protests work if the alternative is violence. Otherwise they just keep sending in violent bullies to dismantle the protests.

  …wikipedia.org/…/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justice

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• Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We learned the hippies were ineffectual drug addicts that believed in super weird stuff. Then HIV happened and free love was over. Then Manson family killed a bunch of people and became a scape goat. The hippies lost their appeal. Computers blew up and we never went back to that place to try and figure out how to do it right.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wow. Really? When was this? Where was this?

    I certainly remember several times when learning American history throughout my education about the Civil Rights movement and the resistance to the Vietnam War.

    Admittedly though, I don’t know how much of that I learned in school, vs learned in Museums.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We learned about free love and the hippie movement on school. I went to school in a very blue state.

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      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s incredible. Maybe Minnesota is just that different? My son still learned about the civil rights movement and civil disobedience in 2nd grade. Specifically they mentioned MLK Jrs marches and sit-ins, and how even something as small as Rosa Parks sitting where she wasn’t allowed to was an act of civil disobedience.

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