archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago"You're fooling yourself, we're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...."midwest.socialimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down126
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minus-squarejaspersgroove@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-22 years agoA protest that can be safely ignored isn’t a protest, it’s just a circlejerk where slacktivists gather to congratulate themselves about how virtuous they are. Actual protests are disruptive, by definition.
minus-squarearchomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·2 years agoBut a protest that can’t be safely ignored is a choice to destroy the country, apparently
minus-squarejaspersgroove@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoWell, as JFK said, a nation that makes peaceful protest impossible makes violent protest inevitable. It doesn’t have to destroy the country, but if it comes to that…you can’t say nobody warned you.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoWell yeah. Imagine we couldn’t ignore a protest against democracy. What would that even mean?
A protest that can be safely ignored isn’t a protest, it’s just a circlejerk where slacktivists gather to congratulate themselves about how virtuous they are.
Actual protests are disruptive, by definition.
But a protest that can’t be safely ignored is a choice to destroy the country, apparently
Well, as JFK said, a nation that makes peaceful protest impossible makes violent protest inevitable.
It doesn’t have to destroy the country, but if it comes to that…you can’t say nobody warned you.
Well yeah. Imagine we couldn’t ignore a protest against democracy. What would that even mean?