Pro@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agoWe’re walking into a trap: Why Trump is goading Americans to protestwww.thenewhumanitarian.orgexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down145file-text
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkWe’re walking into a trap: Why Trump is goading Americans to protestwww.thenewhumanitarian.orgPro@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
The protest movement in the United States is growing, but so is the global authoritarian playbook it’s up against.
minus-squareVagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down7·2 months agoyes this is why they are ineffective against a regime that started a war yesterday and readied their deathcamps a month ago you can’t instantly build a peaceful resistance movement after abandoning the one in 2020 and increasing funding for the violent police USA’s shot at doing peaceful resistance is over, that’s not the shape of the problem anymore
minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·2 months agoFeel free to sit this out while real Americans save your ass.
minus-squarepelespirit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThey’re typically not Americans. Yesterday, one said he was Scottish and last week they wouldn’t fess up.
minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoYeah, I keep running into those guys too.
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minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoCool. If you’re not gonna participate in the change, then sit down and STFU.
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minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months ago“So I’m spent” All I hear from people like you is “violence is necessary” but none of you have the balls to punch nazis or shoot at cops. Step up or shut up.
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minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoAfter taking a second look at his comments and some of the weird phrases he used in his DMs to me, that guy is 100% not an American
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minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoI don’t beat up cripples EDIT: he did indeed slide into my DMs proposing violence
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoIs this based on a careful study of violent and non-violent protest movements under regiemes in many countries? Or did you pull it out of your ass?
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yes this is why they are ineffective against a regime that started a war yesterday and readied their deathcamps a month ago
you can’t instantly build a peaceful resistance movement after abandoning the one in 2020 and increasing funding for the violent police
USA’s shot at doing peaceful resistance is over, that’s not the shape of the problem anymore
Feel free to sit this out while real Americans save your ass.
They’re typically not Americans. Yesterday, one said he was Scottish and last week they wouldn’t fess up.
Yeah, I keep running into those guys too.
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Cool. If you’re not gonna participate in the change, then sit down and STFU.
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“So I’m spent”
All I hear from people like you is “violence is necessary” but none of you have the balls to punch nazis or shoot at cops. Step up or shut up.
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After taking a second look at his comments and some of the weird phrases he used in his DMs to me, that guy is 100% not an American
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I don’t beat up cripples
EDIT: he did indeed slide into my DMs proposing violence
Is this based on a careful study of violent and non-violent protest movements under regiemes in many countries? Or did you pull it out of your ass?
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