Comment on YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWe should not try to see those laws ever enforced?
We should see things as they really are and stop playing make-believe. Digging in your heels and saying “You can’t do that because the First Amendment stops you!” is akin to some sovereign citizen announcing he can’t be convicted of a crime because the flag has a yellow fringe.
The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. And if you live in denial, insisting that people can’t hurt you because laws protect you, you’re going to have a very bad time when the cops come knocking at your door.
Just give up and accept it?
Not at all. You’ve got to reach out to your neighbors, join community groups, unionize your workforce, and oppose the fascist government at every opportunity. And you’ve got to do it knowing you’ll be breaking the law at some point along the line.
If you want to talk about Israeli BDS, you’ve got to talk about it like a guerrilla fighting an insurgency not like a customer choosing Pepsi over Coca-Cola.
hector@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I don’t agree with your analysis of what I am saying here. Wanting a restoration of the Republic is not playing Make-Believe, it is not surrendering.
Obviously we already talked about the rules not being honored, nobody is making believe they are being honored on this thread.
But within the rules of the government we have we could fix the government and Society. It is just a matter of getting good leadership to get us there and organizing behind them.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Clinging to the mythology of the American system is.
That’s been disproven repeatedly and categorically going at least back to Nixon. We’ve been repeating the cycle of Conservative Breaks Rules / Liberal Sweeps It Under The Rug for 50 years, easily.
How many more generations plan to get Rope-a-Doped by toothless establishment hacks?
Who could you name that would qualify? Are we going to get a big name blue state prosecutor like checks notes Kamala Harris?
hector@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I don’t know what you think you are even arguing here. I know the system can work because it did work. In the post-war years until the 1970s. Only after business started to cooperate on a long game to undo the New Deal did it all go to shit. Piece by piece. In 1972 the business Round Table made a long game and it has since been refined.
miked@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That was over 50 years ago. The amount of fuckery that has happened would take another 50 years to undo assuming the Democrats were up to the task. They are not which is the reason things are so bleak today
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A famously great time to be an American, assuming you weren’t colored, Latino, or a woman.
American corporate collaboration didn’t begin in 1972. You can trace it back to the antebellum era and the birth of American industrialization.
The New Deal was a historical aberration that came through the rapid economic attrition of the Great Depression. Prior to the Depression of '32, Henry Ford, JP Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller were individually as powerful as any half dozen elected officials combined.