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@indivisible.org has been rolling out their #NoKings stuff in cities across the country nationwide for 6/14 to coincide with the Trump birthday military parade.
So there is a pre-existing national day of action for folks to plug into in an organized way. That is RARE for reactive emergent protest.
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The fact that a hyphenated American isn't any less American than anybody else is literally the best thing about this stupid-ass country, the thing that most clearly makes it a redeemable project.
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“Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks”
#MalcolmXAt100
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This is extremely difficult to do in the absence of large organizations with durable membership, but definitely not impossible. And we're seeing a ton of peaceful, provocative and insistent protest in LA and I imagine we're gonna see a lot more.
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These distorted incentives have existed for a long time but they are greatly exacerbated by the conditions of the attention age. One of the ways King et al in the civil rights movement threaded the needle was to create drama and confrontation *while also* maintaining non violent discipline.
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But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
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That's more a case of things are happening in more than one jurisdiction.
I mean more the way other states were asked to send cops to the George Floyd Protests, or when they get called in to "support" things like the GOP convention.
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A good rule of thumb to consider is "Never apologize to Riley Gaines"
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I mean the convention that ended with the Constitution was originally called to propose improvements to the Articles of Confederation
Idk what the solution is, but the more broken things get, the more "f*ck it, we're starting over" becomes viable
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Water works. Nothing else is as good as water. Some things are very much worse.
Absent water all you need is time.
Is it pleasant? No. Is it the worst thing ever? No. Is it going to do permanent harm? Not if you don't make it worse.
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WIDE AWAKES, BABY @djinnandtonic.bsky.social
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1989, "Color revolutions," and Euromaidan should honestly be the models here, not the 60s. Fundamentally protests in the US today are about the regime itself.
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That said, LBJ was a New Dealer who believed in liberal democracy to the extent he was willing to lose the South forever to give black people rights and Donald Trump is a selfish authoritarian, so who the fuck knows what’s applicable these days?
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Insofar as any lessons can be learned, the most successful tactic appears to be respectability politics with the heavy disclaimer that this involves getting your ass kicked and thrown in jail in manner sufficiently fucked up enough to scare the normies.