There's always a place for comedy. Even the military has stand-up comics perform.
No lie, but Minecraft is actually the way that a lot of people in authoritarian regimes communicate. They even have a whole server with a library of forbidden knowledge. FitMC did a whole video on it.
They at least go through the motions, such as the impeachment, or the electoral vote count "ceremony." There have been calls for Pence to use the 25th Amendment on Trump. It would be a media spectacle that they'd absolutely eat up and broadcast 24/7. I think it's in the establishment's interest to go through the process. The only unconstitutional part will be the intimidation and/or bribery that goes on behind the scenes.
Police were beaten up, hospitalized, and one of them has died. I guess you could call it "mostly peaceful" if you want to use media standards. In reality, most of the protesters were peaceful, but a lot of them did get violent.
If just half of the 74 million started to get active, then nothing would happen to most of us. You can't fire 37 million producers. You can't bully 50 million kids.
But yes, leadership is important. Who's our MLK? Who's our Gandhi? Donald Trump was the president, but he was constrained by being the president, too. We probably don't need any single one leader, though, but many of them.
Absolutely, we definitely need a different plan and no two countries or situations are the same. I'm definitely not saying that civil disobedience is 100% guaranteed to solve our problems.
What I am saying, is that our actions need to be well planned for maximum impact. Storming the capitol was a fit of blind rage provoked by Mike Pence's actions. It wasn't a planned event.
You're right, the media would never cover it, that's why our actions need to be totally massive. Blocking off DC with a bunch of trucks would be non-violent. Just park them in the middle of the highway. Yes it's illegal, yes you'll get a ticket, and you probably should get a ticket, but people will know about it regardless of whether or not the media covers it.
Same thing with the masks. If every single Trump supporter quit wearing a mask, the mandates would be totally unenforceable. Or reopen the businesses. That would be way way way more effective than what happened on Wednesday.
Yes, Hong Kong had a lot of the same civil disobedience that I'm talking about. It didn't work in their case, at least not yet, but the fight is certainly not over for them. I can't 100% guarantee that non-violent civil disobedience will solve all of our problems, but it's an option that we haven't even tried. It's an option that is oftentimes effective, that we've ignored. Beating up cops and breaking into the Capitol building is not non-violent civil disobedience. Even Trump condemned it and begged people to stop while it was happening. They would have made their point just fine by standing on the stairs or on the lawn. And then they could have occupied it for longer, all the way up until the 20th. We need to try some of the things that I mentioned in my op.
Black lives matter doesn't really have a centralized leadership either. They have figureheads, but no real top leadership. I live in a small town, and a bunch of high school kids organized a bridge overpass rally. Totally spontaneous, wasn't even on social media. I don't like using BLM as an example, but you have to admit that their methods were effective. At least their peaceful methods were, after all the riots, public opinion of them went way down.
Get involved with your local council. Get involved with your workplace and people you work with. Get involved at your school. Yeah, most physical gathering places are shut down for now, but not in every state, and the covid problem will probably magically disappear once Biden is in office.
Yeah, and a bunch of f****** idiots hadn't stormed the capitol building, Ted Cruz in the others would have raised their objections and gotten a 10-day audit. Would it have worked? Almost certainly not, but we never even got to see that. We never even got the chance to see the full process.
Yes because when thousands of trucks blocked the roads into DC, when thousand of businesses defiantly reopened I'm every state, when we all held sit ins at Twitter and Google HQ, and millions of us took off our masks everywhere we went...
Oh wait, no. We never did any of those things. Idiots just jumped straight to fighting cops and storming the capitol like a bunch of retards. Handshake account, are you a glowie?
It's like our side has never heard of civil disobedience. Every business in this country that's run by a conservative should be open right now, millions of conservatives should be walking around without masks. Storming the capitol was a stupid, stupid decision. We haven't even done any proper civil disobedience, general strikes, or extended French-like occupations of any sort.
Sauce?