[an orange character is driving a bulldozer, facing a house]
I am going to bulldoze your house
[a yellow character is shocked]
[yellow asks politely, hands clasped]
Could you please not do that?
[orange, pushing the bulldozer's controls, answers]
NO!
[yellow walks away from their house, looking dismayed]
Well, I guess I tried to do everything I could
Too bad
[orange smiles smugly as they bulldoze yellow's house]
https://thebad.website/comic/respectable_resistance
I am going to delete your post
its not like its going to matter. they are bulding an interstellar highway tomorrow.
Bit late to object now, the plans have been available in the planning office for the past nine months.
Counterpoint:
Tired strawman against nonviolent resistance which has proven effective in many many situations. There is no universally right or wrong tactic to resist. It depends completely on the circumstances.
he was probably happier to bulldoze my house than i am sad to lose
the worlds total happiness increased
so whatever
God, this shit is stupid.
Let me explain it one more time:
Violence is part of resistance, but acceptance of violence is part of fascism. One can be violent in a mission to change the world. It is undeniably a fast but chaotic and imprecise way to make change. However, it MUST make you an outcast. If you try to create a society where violence is accepted as a method of change, you won't have a society when you are done. You will have a battledome. You don't get to be the violent extremist and the hero of the people in anything but a fascist regime. Deal with it.
How could Our Cause have failed? I upvoted and downvoted everything I was supposed to!
The public education system in America doesn't cover domestic violence against/by the state and state allies. There are some region exceptions but even those often don't hit the full range of violent protest.
We're taught about the labor movement and civil rights movement primarily through the lens of peaceful or passive resistance. They're frequently presented alongside figures like Gandhi, who himself has had is image simplified and white-washed.
I didn't know what Tulsa was until someone mentioned it online in a video essay. There is so much that I know only because the internet was open and history nerds started making youtube video essays and podcasts. Even then, I only know about things like the 1934 Minneapolis strike because I was in a construction worker's union.
Is his name Arthur Dent?
The only way to stop a bulldozer is with a bigger bulldozer covered in concrete armor.
What Israel expects from Gaza....
This is what the West expects of Palestinians while they are annihilated. Maintain a quiet and courteous victimhood.
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