Blakey
joined 4 years ago
Africanfuturism as a sub-category of science fiction that is (...) rooted in the African continent.
Afrofuturist (...) has an african diaspora/USA focus
I mean, yes, that's what I was saying, but you've named the problem right here. Peaceful protest doesn't challenge state power, it can reform things but not make radical change, so if radical change is necessary (it is), peaceful protest serves only to distract from truly effective movements.
Ahh, but the ones that are here are introduced, just already established before my time
Just a warning as someone who never played it at the time but always wanted to and had a go a few years ago. The controls are not what you'd expect from a modern console shooter. Frustrating because they could have used goldeneye style controls and m+K was well established on PC by then, but there you have it.
There's already figs here nerd :p
Does that mean it's okay then? Takes notes
it's unreasonable to expect you to go all barrels and suspenders here.
Barrels and suspenders are also produced through exploitation of the global proletariat; fig leaves or nothin'!
Without going out and checking it appears to be true of every successful nonviolent movement. During Ghandi's time there was absolutely a violent independence movement, and Mandela literally started out as a "terrorist" (and those more active orgs were still around when he rebranded as non violent). Why would the powers that be give in to a group that doesn't threaten them otherwise? Certainly not because they suddenly grow a conscience. If it were just Dr King and a bunch of nonviolent protesters - even a lot of them - why would the American government listen? It's pretty obvious they don't actually have to listen to people's opinions, or they wouldn't be supporting Israel and ICE would either be abolished or at the very least very, very different. Nope, gotta be materialist about these things. Peaceful protest alone has never achieved anything and even when it's successful tends to only be partially so, because the peaceful protesters are there to negotiate and have more moderate demands to begin with - consider MLK v Malcolm X and exactly how much further they each would have liked the civil rights movement to proceed - obviously neither would have been happy with where it ended but I suspect Malcolm X would have been less so and would have driven it further.
I'm picturing a looney toons-esque scenario where she keeps taking a spoonful and he keeps bending it, dumping out the soup each time, then accelerating until the bowl is empty. Maybe in a fury she dunks her head in the pot and slurps it up directly.