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NOBODY goes up to someone else at a protest and says “well, your sign about immigration distracts from the real issue, the gutting of Medicare.” (Or at least I hope they don’t.)
You generally just let people be. You chant their chants. They chant yours.
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You have a common message: this guy sucks and he wants to hurt ALL of us, and we want him to hurt NONE of us.
If you can’t get on board with “we want him to hurt NONE of us,” work on yourself.
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It’s the same chemical that is used to bleach lumber on industrial scale, and antivaxx freaks make autistic kids eat/drink it or give them enemas of it. They share pictures of sloughed off intestinal linings as “parasites” or “toxins” that left the body, but those are dead tissue from chemical burns
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“Is the Bleach Community finally having its moment?” -The Atlantic, probably
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The Founders could have never imagined 21st century America, as we argue about tariffs and annexing Canada and the perils of a standing army and the consequences of a populist demagogue becoming president and the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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Saw something similar at school. Had a teacher who taught us about media perspective. Showed us a video of what looked like guys in a riot, then it zoomed out to show just 4 guys fighting on a high st as other people just passed by ignoring them
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Once saw a protest in Germany where the cameramen outnumbered the protestors. Later that evening on CNN I saw the report, “Massive protest in Munich.”
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I came SO CLOSE to getting my u-lock through his rear window.
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I also remember biking in to Harvard Square ages ago, coming down Brattle from Watertown. Driver turns left immediately in front of me. I lay the bike down rather that go over his car, and as I’m hitting asphalt I see the driver give me the finger.
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Brattle St was the first time a car hit me - dude was on a side street with a stop sign, and pulled out right in front of me, because he believed bicycles should always stop for cars. Look how hurt I was, because I didn’t follow this rule!
Cops did not even ticket him, but did threaten to arrest me
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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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It's a classic!
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Rosie Duffield's now talking about an organisation leaving bottles of piss outside the EHRC in protest against them. Asks what needs to change so that the next chair doesn't experience that.
I can answer that one: leave trans people alone.
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Galaxy Quest: www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/joysti...
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When fascists talk about law and order, they are thinking ahead to moment when all the other solutions are exhausted and they can start building the death camps. They can barely contain their excitement and the ones who lack any political subtlety will say it out loud, a gleam in their eye.
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Fascists will invent facts and ideas as needed, if doing so will edge them closer to killing their enemies. They will, in conflicts, always escalate instead of deescalating, because it brings them closer to killing their enemies.