It's educate, AGITATE, organize
edit: putting this at the top so people understand the basis for this:
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.
This is such a terrible metaphor. A good metaphor is one that cant easily be reversed.
Example: Netanyahu is drilling holes, and I'm (both) bailing water (by voting) and also yelling at Biden he should stop Netanyahu, and Biden is sitting calmly on the other side of the boat denying any holes are being drilled at all.
What
In what fucking English class did you learn that in
In the one about derailing threads when you've not a leg to stand on.
Maybe 'good' is too vague. Maybe 'convincing' is more accurate.
A good metaphor can be reversed because a metaphors are inherently flexible. I have trouble thinking of a metaphor that can't be reversed. Care to give any examples?
No, because I don't think metaphors are particularly effective at communicating a point.
So your entire point was just to deflect that you had no answer to the metaphor because you realize it's apt. Cool cool cool.
Only you are not in a position to bale water, and so aren't, but Biden is, and so is. So not sure your pedantry holds up plus quit trying to derail the thread.
Oh look, another variation of the same metaphor saying something completely different than the others.
The point is that the metaphor isn't a very compelling one; you're not doing well to show otherwise.