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šµ in Pensacola, FL | Amateur Forager & Native Plant Enthusiast | š©š»āš¾ Gardening, š Cats, šŖ² Bugs, āļø Crafting/Sewing | šļø Philosophy
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Update: Heās still doing it, albeit less punctually.
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Itās literally the context of the original post. Are you just hopping in here and responding to random comments or something?
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Sources?
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Feel like weāre talking past each other here. This isnāt a conversation about āis violence ever necessaryā; itās about ādoes this particular event call for disorganized violent protest or does that play into the adminās hands?ā
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Subvert it back? Why yāall always let the goons have the cool shit?
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How is it like a confederate flag? Itās an anti-tyranny symbol from the revolution.
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Right. The propaganda, information control, lying, covering up, and distraction, is all just for fun.
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Why yes, tyranny is unfair. Justice demands more of the just than the unjust. I suspect fighting fascism has never been a picnic. Do the hard work or donāt, take the big risks or donāt, but for Godās sake can we all stop whining about how the bad guys arenāt playing fair?
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Read the playbookāitās over a century old now. Virtually every authoritarian regime has incited violence in response to manufactured crisis in order to justify suppression and the suspension of rights. They need a legitimate cover for the destruction of norms, and your chaos grants it.
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I was making the assumption you understand and can appropriately respond to context: OP was about not busting windows, after all. But yeah, police brutality is evil bc itās asymmetrical; fighting a bunch of armed cops could be a death sentence.Try it at your peril.
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If you donāt know the long history of nonviolent protest and what itās accomplished, maybe go read about it? Pick up the book Strongmen, or follow some historians. That authoritarian regimes intentionally incite crowds in order to justify increasingly violent suppression is firmly established.
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MLK never gave up non-violence. He recognized demanding peaceful action was āunfairā and asymmetrical (people were being killed) but also necessary. He also recognized violence was inevitable in the face of continued oppression, but thatās not the same as being pro-riot.
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They donāt need an excuse; they need justification. Every historian who studies authoritarians for a living has made this clear. The people give these regimes power by legitimizing them, which is why every strongman regime has incited violence to justify their crackdowns. Itās a trap.
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If the mental labor seems too great, see the Goods Unite Us app. For media, use your library! You can often reserve items from any branch in the system and request what they donāt have. Big ones might have a ālibrary of thingsā (tools, tech) or even seed libraries. Also, join a Buy Nothing group!
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āThisā being the loss of empathy for those closest to you. When youāve been convinced to uncritically and unsympathetically accept even your own loved ones as collateral damage, you have sold your moral soul, your character, your whole being. You have nothing left but the cause.
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From āThe Boys Who Challenged Hitlerā.
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The juicy inscriptions are always on the boring cards!
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All-time record for our area was 3 inches, set in 1895. This utterly smashes a 130+ year record, and it isnāt supposed to stop for another couple of hours.
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It shuts off at some point towards the end of a cycle, while the fan is still blowing. I did check the filter and that has no effect. I can feel the vibration in the panel door thing. Thatās all I got.
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New new, but also new to me.