Maggoty @ Maggoty @lemmy.world

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Towing ICE vehicles, blocking their driveways, and swarming ice raids with too many people to control is ineffective?

It's true many people stay asleep until things are forced on them. But that goes for both sides. That's why we talk about activation and activists. Holding signs has never been about persuading the bad guys to stop being bad guys. It's about activating more people.

Any level with a low number can be controlled by elites. Debate can be done on forums. Good ideas go up, bad ideas go down in flames.

To add to the other response the leaders of both nationalities were veterans of the Prague Spring. They had no appetite for more violence. Could you truly say the same of the US?

Congratulations on finding a split I missed though.

Sure, for the low price of a lifetime pension I'll benevolently dismantle the oligarchy; ban guns; make cars luxury items; massively expand mass transit; and bring in universal health and education!

Just ignore the claims that I've actually jailed or killed my opposition; held the families of so called "freedom fighters" so they'll turn themselves and their buddies in; made travel outside your area and healthcare impossible without government approval; and completely changed the history everyone learns.

Okay that's obviously pretty extreme. Just a reminder that if you're not careful even well intentioned dictatorships can be very oppressive. And every dictatorship is on a timer to a coup or revolution. And resetting that timer is not pretty. The only way off the treadmill is to have elections again.

Anyone under the delusion that splitting a country can be peaceful should research any split since the idea of nationalism took hold. India and Pakistan are still the odds on favorite to kill us all with a nuclear winter.

Don't confuse not being an ammo sexual with not fighting.

To be fair, oppression has existed in every generation. We are not immune, polling makes that very clear. As another example, the leaders of the generation that made the post world war 2 boom did everything in their power to prevent black people from benefitting. Just like the leaders of the baby boomers and silent generation decided to fuck over poor people and begin the regression to another gilded age in the 1970's.

We were never going to do representation by population. We barely got the southern colonies to agree to apportionment with land. (This was the 3/5ths compromise.)

Don't join the military then.

Nobody said anything about professionals until you came along. And you don't have to be the best. You just have to be enough. In fact nobody claimed anyone was the best until you came around. It seems like you just wanted an opportunity to insult Americans.

Ooo, it could take a minute. But yeah if that's what you want, I'll do it.

Hold on, lemme go dump my entire homebrew notes in there. :)-

Just kidding, sounds like an invaluable place.

They have more gear than we had in Afghanistan. To arrest working class people with no violent history.

Mexico has a giant deposit but they insist on silly things like environmental regulations.

Duh? You don't think a Fox News host is actually running the DOD either right? Or Naomi DHS?

This has been transparent from the start.

So much for parents doing research and deciding if it's right for them. Yet another bad faith argument.

Hilariously those are the two that would probably be containable.

So uhhh, yeah..., that's not happening.

It was just a general sentiment but he's definitely going to try. And if his party supports him through all the protests then the best defense of Democracy is indeed going to be voting him out.

I went to check it out. It's 100% real.