• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    As opposed to the ones we’re fighting, we have to spend the grand majority of our time just trying to stay alive.

    These people have servants to wait on their every need. They have seas of time (and capital) while we run ourselves ragged just to stay afloat.

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      4 hours ago

      organizing absolutely has. Ever heard of the civil rights movement and the black panthers? And various kinds of organizing similar to that throughout history?

      Now, critically, the organizing that worked wasn’t exactly… non-disruptive. It’s not enough to just stand with signs yelling at designated government hours, it’s about making life hell for those in power, until your demands are met.

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      9 hours ago

      Check out “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century” by Prof. Timothy Snyder, he lists there what are the things that allows it to happen.

      It’s a short book and anyone should read it for current times. He also reads it on his YouTube channel.