Related to this was that lots of people were genuine Christian believers which meant they had a hope that things would get better, even if not on this Earth. No doomer mindset there

Uphold Stancilist-Marxist[^1]-Lennonist[^2] Thought

[1]: Groucho
[2]: John

I think some posters on here missed that "getting punched in the face, repeatedly, by goon security services and not directly punching back" has been a core tenet of just about every successful nonviolent resistance movement in history

An armed conflict puts my kids in the middle of an even bigger war zone. So no, as much as I get the sentiment, turning MPLS into a battlefield means a lot of the good guys die, the bad guy are likely to win, and public opinion swings towards the fascists. You are absolutely correct.

They really need to think about methods that are "militant" but not "toting weapons around the street". Militancy involves discipline, coordination, logistics, defining objectives and strategy, and constantly evaluating the situation. The civil rights movement was militant af.

And like everyone missed the blatant messages in Andor about how corrupting being a revolutionary is and how much personal violence has to be done, up close. thye just want a cool monologue and the Death Star to blow up

Bishop Clemens von Gale exposing and condemning the Nazi T4 program where they of euthanized disabled people caused the Nazis to shut down the program.

While they still ended up killing many disabled people, it wasnt at the systemic scale while the program was in effect!

But who also aren’t any good at those games either.

You can be imprisoned for speech and there’s a state church there. So yeah, glass houses and all that.

He has a right to a speedy trial and right to a jury of his peers. It’s bizarre that people are interpreting French’s statement to mean there should not be justice and accountability

No but only because it’s openly assumed by everyone globally that if someone tried to close the canal or use it for extortion, the US would intervene militarily. That doesn’t mean we need to be jerks about it or need to administer it Before that point.