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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago

Soap box

Ballot box

Ammo box <-- we are here not by choice, but we must answer

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 16 points 19 hours ago

You missed jury box! Free Luigi!

[-] prole 10 points 20 hours ago

Where does the beat box fit in?

[-] amon@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

You mean boombox?

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago

You know, in the civil war, when they had the guys drumming to keep the march in time?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago

After Ballot and Before Ammo is Street. It's an important stage because if you can't get enough people in the street then the ammo box isn't going to help you.

[-] itslilith 6 points 20 hours ago

In the frame of the four boxes, it's actually the jury box. But seeing how the judiciary is getting stacked against us, it's not a big stretch to say we're at box four

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

we’re at box four

I keep hearing this claim, but I see vanishingly few people with any kind of serious militant intent.

It seems like the "Ammo Box" is something nebulous ill-defined others do - be it a Silicon Valley Longtermist pilled vigilante like Luigi Mangione or a deranged horny Green Beret like Matthew Alan Livelsberger.

There's no actual progressive militia movement in the US.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

If they're smart, then they're keeping it quiet and not posting about it on the internet.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

If you're too terrified to flaunt your affiliations and organize openly, you aren't a serious threat to an establishment.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Was the French resistance not a serious threat?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Not until the US/UK threatened landfall in '41. Most of French resistance activity amounted getting leadership and equipment hidden before the Nazis could secure control over territory. They died in droves to do little more than prick the German war machine.

As counterintelligence, they were grand. German military reports leaked like a sieve throughout France, once the Allies reclaimed a beachhead. But as a fighting force, they were next to worthless.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

You still really, like really need to fit street in there somewhere. If you skip it you risk a Les Misérables situation. Dying on the barricade for nothing.

[-] itslilith 3 points 17 hours ago
[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I think of the soap box more as the politicians thing

[-] itslilith 3 points 15 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapbox

It's about freedom of speech, and the ability to get out and make your voice heard. That can be online, in the market square on an actual soapbox, or at a protest

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