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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.

Letter from Birmingham, MLK

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[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 2 points 3 months ago

Different guy, different perspective.

Never once have I ever said we should stop all support of Israel, I think we should give them all the iron dome missiles they want, but that is it.

Let them have their best self defense weapon, god knows it will save some kids from a whackadoo with a rocket launcher.

Hell, if we have anything to do with arrow, or whatever the other one is, I want to say David’s sling, but that is probably wrong, give them all they want of those as well.

Whoever makes those missiles deserves the money for them.

You seem to be trying to take this to an extreme when there a ton of us that just want a more moderate solution.

Fucking set up real places for these people, an actual safe place with shelter, food, water, and medical, including therapy, especially for those kids.

Surround the motherfucker with a wall and a deadline, but use someone smart enough to know not to kill a kid that wanders in there.

Put livestream cameras on every inch that isn’t private.

People can only do so much in a tent city under tight surveillance.

Vet the people as they come in with both a terrorist list and tsa body scanners.

Whoever builds that is the fucking hero, safety, food, and starting to tear down all of the psychological issues that would save them so many problems later on.

Also put that motherfucker under iron dome protection, that way no one can bomb it, accidentally or otherwise, without it being obvious.

The us military is the most effective logistical team on earth.

I doubt you could find someone more effective at setting up ad-how shelter in a desert environment, while also keeping it safe.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Never once have I ever said we should stop all support of Israel

You seem to be trying to take this to an extreme when there a ton of us that just want a more moderate solution.

Man, I'VE said we should do so. It's not a question of how extreme I want the US's response to Israel to be.

The difference in extremes is in what I think is reasonable to push that view; I'm very aware that it's not something that is just 'demanded' six months before an election, and that playing chicken with my vote, or trying to convince other people to play chicken with their's, is a great way to get hit by a freight train of fascism in this election.

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