• boredtortoise
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    11 months ago

    Time for the people of the US to do some kind of a peaceful overthrowing of the system

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        11 months ago

        Czechoslovakia did it.

        That’s about the only example I can think of.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t mind the way if the people there can get some kind of progress going, while it’s wrong to condone a violent uprising.

        Peaceful movement can of course turn into a self defense situation which is ethically understandable.

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      11 months ago

      We cant expel sex offenders and insurectionists from government, you think you can peacefully overthrow the whole thing?

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      11 months ago

      Sideeye from the voting booth

      Goes back to voting

      If you don’t think we can win in the voting booth, we can’t win nonviolently, and we probably can’t win using violence, either. Voting is the non violent way to change things.

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        11 months ago

        Too bad that even that voting system is rigged to only two options

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        11 months ago

        To win we just need to look at the success of the teabaggers. They ran people at the bottom - school boards, county positions and local city councils. It took about ten years for those to move up the power chain to congress. Of course they achieved power through the backing of tons of very wealthy conservatives, state-of-the-art propaganda and experts at cheating, sprinkled with borderline violence.