cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/32356461
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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That's part of the problem with the media circle we're in here in the U.S. - 4 of the richest American own and run 7/10 the most popular websites on the entire internet. The people who need to be reached won't leave their platform because it's all they know.
The only way to actually reach people, to actually make change, is IRL. Write letters, attend protests, invite people to protests, encourage discussion outside an online space.
Hey that's not true I also interact with people that have the same opinion on other social media ๐
That's certainly part of the problem. But my comment was more directed at these protests being planned almost exclusively in spaces that are already deeply saturated in left leaning opinions and people.
This is like screaming about the dangers of Satanism while inside a mega church surrounded by people who already agree with you. Not gonna do much.
But if you do that same screaming about satanism somewhere where you aren't surrounded by people who already agree you have a much better chance of reaching a new audience.
My main problem with them is that they were on a federal goddamned holiday.
Everyone met at empty state capitols to protest, in a way that would inconvenience and send a message to literally none of the people who should be receiving it.
I honestly would believe this was actually planned by some trolls the dates seem so ineffective.