[an orange character is driving a bulldozer, facing a house]
I am going to bulldoze your house

[a yellow character is shocked]

[yellow asks politely, hands clasped]
Could you please not do that?

[orange, pushing the bulldozer's controls, answers]
NO!

[yellow walks away from their house, looking dismayed]
Well, I guess I tried to do everything I could
Too bad

[orange smiles smugly as they bulldoze yellow's house]

https://thebad.website/comic/respectable_resistance

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[–] 9 points 36 minutes ago (1 child)

Bit late to object now, the plans have been available in the planning office for the past nine months.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

    Tired strawman against nonviolent resistance which has proven effective in many many situations. There is no universally right or wrong tactic to resist. It depends completely on the circumstances.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    It's not strictly against nonviolent resistance though IMO. It's against protests that don't do anything. You can nonviolently do a blockade or sabotage something, or do a strike, etc.

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    Didn’t that guy terrorize and entire town?

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    freedom fighter Weird antisocial asshole.

    Seriously this was all over being told to pay to connect to the town sewer instead of pumping sewage into an irrigation ditch. This guy was just an asshole that decided to destroy his town because he couldn't be a selfish fake-libertarian piece of shit and dump literal shit out in the open. The killdozer as an item is metal as fuck, but he died a pathetic shit-slinger who wrecked everyone else's property and then blew his brains out to dodge accountability.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer?wprov=sfla1

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  • [–] 37 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    its not like its going to matter. they are bulding an interstellar highway tomorrow.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

    I am going to delete your post

    Image of a bulldozer on soil; credit to MathKnight on Wikimedia Commons

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  • [–] [S] 47 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    Could you please not do that?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 hours ago

    Seems to fit better with the US government trampling on their citizens rights, destroying every international diplomacy norm, accelerating the destruction of the environment, and all around being comical levels of evil. And the opposition has largely done nothing because they are trying maintain decorum and not upset corporate donors while being steamrolled by fascism.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    That pacifist Indian guy (Ghandi?): (making Pikachu face)

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    Gandhi built his movement on the back of centuries of violent anti-colonial resistance, in particular the HSRA campaigns which had proven british rule to be weak, and all the work done by Netaji before he was outed from the movement for his ties with nazi Germany (he was forgotten by history for being a bad person, but still played as big a role as Gandhi in India's national liberation).

    If Gandhi was born just 20 years earlier , he probably wouldn't have made a difference at all. He arrived at the right time, when the empire was already crumbling from being sabotaged, and still reeling from the war. Like every other liberation movement, it was diversity of tactics that led to its success:β€―the peaceful political force asking for change can only work if there's a threat of ongoing violence in the background as long as their demands are not met.

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