• FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Every step forward has been through violence. It has worked every time. All of our rights came through acts of violence. Asking for them has never, ever , ever worked.

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        7 months ago

        we said “yo stop fucking ruling us nerds” and they went “lol ok, but only if you beat us in war” and then we did.

        I mean to some degree, you aren’t wrong about violence working effectively, that’s definitely accurate.

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          7 months ago

          It worked great in France too, and still is. Every time the fascists try to take rights away, the French people mutilate Paris again, and it works.

          Also women’s suffrage, gay rights, civil rights movement (yes, it was under THREAT of violence, not nonviolence).

          It’s simple: you cannot beg power to abdicate itself.

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            7 months ago

            though to be fair, i don’t believe war and violence are the same thing. War is an excuse to commit violence, violence is sometimes the result of attempting to gain rights.