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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

The ability to protest is a trait of human beings. Actually, all intelligent species protest. We just don't pay attention. It's not even essentially a question of efficacy: we must protest injustice and inhumanity to retain our humanity, or achieve it. The intricate web of lies and propaganda governments must resort to in response is itself a sign of stress: It's becoming laughable - as in the "balloon crisis". Keep up the pressure and they might crack and -become sane. We are the majority: we can. do it.

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BMeowDawg's avatar

Agreed. This cowardly regime will collapse under less pressure than we think. See Vaclav Havel on the point. Thanks and gratitude to those that traveled to DC, now a dangerous city to those with a conscience; on Jan 6 and in its wake, the regime taught a lesson: do not bring protest to your capital, lest you be thrown in jail on petty charges, denied bail, refused access to evidence or speedy trial by imperious bureaucratized judges, condemned by a corrupt media and corporatocracy, and left to rot in the squalid basement of the DC gulag. And still thousands went: a solid start. World leaders will take notice even if the propaganda machine suppresses it.

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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

We can but try, and we must try.

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

No, they don't. Intelligent species would destroy the enemy's ability to make war against them. Begging the master is acknowledging, validating, and internalizing the master's perspective.

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