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Davis describes herself as a trans refugee. Back in Texas, she says, lived in a "pretty hostile and frankly dangerous" place. "I had a lot of close calls, a lot of threats."
Wilbur also describes himself as a "refugee." He relates an experience that is a virtual mirror image of Davis'. In Seattle, the local conservative talk show host — who also briefly served as Washington state Republican chair — felt like a stranger in a strange land.
Virtual mirror image, indeed.
I want this to be true, but history seems to me to show that most people just tolerate increasingly worse conditions indefinitely. Exploited/oppressed people rising up seems the exception.
Police protect capital, not you.
When Republicans say that about their candidates, we rightly call them deranged cultists.
The striking workers our strike kitchens feed disagree. The unhoused we give clothes to disagree. The tenant unions we support disagree.
When I want opinions on the real life organizing I do in my community, I'll ask the other real life organizers in my community and the community I serve, not some random internet stranger.
I have but I'm a bad public speaker. I do political organizing in real life, including helping run a recurring mutual aid distribution, and that seems a more valuable use of my time than a quixotic vanity challenge.
You've studied Nazism at a collegiate level but are asking for a source on what a totenkopf is...?
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No, my academic background is political science, not history, but they overlap. 'The exception that proves the rule' is generally trite, but I think if holds true in the case. Part of why revolutions are studied is that they're rare. Most modern human history is a story of unequal distribution of wealth and the exploitation and coercion required to uphold that, and the moments in history where that bubbles into revolution are rare. It's easy to say the French revolted in 1789, but that ignores centuries of the ancien régime remaining in power.
Conditions won't just deteriorate until an eventual revolution. A revolution itself generally can't be planned, but successful ones take a lot of groundwork.