2d ago

Make Tyrants Feel Consequences Again

Alt-text: Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change.

source: On Tyranny (Graphic Edition)

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Something we've seen in recent years, and even in recent days, is that a very large number of angry people taking to the streets changes governments.
It's happened in Nepal, Ukraine, South Korea, and probably many others I haven't thought of.
Online bitching can be ignored, burning down parliament, not so much.
But so much can be done offline it's crazy that we hold on to this belief that we need to go to the streets.
Why? What are you doing in the streets that can't be done better online?
- you dont need to go to the streets but you absolutely need to form small groups that meet regularly. Think about how much more you can accomplish as a team of 5 or 10 or 30 at work.
  Form a group, meet regularly, have each others backs, and focus, focus, focus.
  
  You think maybe there's a machine that helps you do that?
  I feel like all the responses here are a joke. This is bad. Seriously fucking bad
- You can't make fascists afraid to speak their thoughts online.
  
  Why is that the thing you think is the goal.
  Fascists need culture to agree with them. The Internet is very literally a culture creating machine.
  Like it fucking baffles me how ignorant leftist are to this fact. It's so blatantly obvious where they need to apply pressure and instead they're doing all the exact opposite moves. They're focusing on physically showing up as the main driver of change. They're convincing each other to leave all digital platforms. They're rejecting new technologies that are essentially force multipliers. It's almost like the other side has a lot of funding and resources to manipulate the left as well as the right.
- You can't fight a fascist takeover of your country from your couch. I know it's not the American way, but you have to go out and change it yourself.
  
  Why? Seriously.
  It's probably the best way.
  Please truly explain to me why. What are you saying is the winning strategy.
- You can't virtually set fire to something, that's what.
  Now make like the Nepalese and burn down parliament.
  
  Easy buddy. Nobody needs to set fires. That's the most useless counter productive action I can think of

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