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  • When we protest, the understanding needs to be there that we’ll become militant if they ignore us. If we don’t get our way and just peacefully go home, there’s no point to protest in the first place.

    Chaining ourselves to their gates, hunger striking, throwing bricks, burning effigies, etc – these tactics are often decried as not peaceful enough, but they show we’re not going to stop at words. That we’re prepared to escalate. We need to make them afraid. We need to show them if they don’t listen very soon, their heads will literally roll. And then we must be willing to follow through. If we don’t, we may as well start heiling now.





  • LillyPip@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldNo Way
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    4 days ago

    I’ve seen plenty of evidence that disenfranchisement was off the charts, and it hit me personally.

    In Michigan, I’ve been disabled and homebound for years and have never had issues voting by mail, but this time rather than my usual automatic mail-in ballot, I got an application for a vote-by-mail ballot after the deadline. I was still registered, but I had to go in person.

    I’d have crawled through hot broken glass naked to vote, so I did it, but only because I live in a small enough town there wasn’t a queue. If I’d had to vote in the city, I could not physically have done it.

    I’ll bet plenty of others like me simply could not.