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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you been living under a rock

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, which is why I would like to at least try some other ideas before violence. Because violence doesn't seem to be doing a lot of anyone any good, historically or presently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s literally what this entire post is talking about, though… I’m not saying violence is necessarily the answer, but we’ve been trying nonviolent methods, and they aren’t working

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be more accurate, they posited that the more chaotic the action, the more effective the protest has historically been, not that non-violent protest is not effective at all. I think that's an important distinction.

They also say this:

People are willing to stand up and ask for it, but all you have to do is just tinker with the tactics, tinker with the approach

I believe it is possible to create chaos without requiring violence. I agree we need to tinker with the approach. I do not think escalating straight to violence is necessary and that we possess the creativity to modify tactics instead of abandoning principles. We should leave the most damaging options for the last resort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternatively…

A bit of tar and feathering is always fun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tar and feathering is a slow death frequently from infections in the burns. It is a revolting and grotesque torture technique.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So we save it for the billionaires, got it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, not them either. I would much prefer billionaires are tasked with cleaning up the mess they have made. It can be picking out recyclables from trash, it can be pulling out blockages from sewers, it can be scrubbing individual seashells of spilled crude oil. 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, in a jail. There are many more ethical and productive methods than slow painful deaths, and a lot of unpleasant work that needs to be done by somebody.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, I like my idea better