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I've seen a lot of ink spilled recently over the Harris campaign's recent adoption of the tactic of calling Trump and his cronies "weird". There's a lot of hand-wringing over the Democrats ceding the high ground or being unserious about serious matters, but this article, and especially the source material it links to by Sdrja Popovic (a non-violent Serbian revolutionary during the Milošević regime) about the power of humor in non-violent movements, really changed my thinking on this.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that the author is suggesting that mockery or laughter should be our only action, just that it should be part of the arsenal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm just pointing out the seriousness of the issue in case anyone infers it to be trivial to solve.