• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    15 hours ago

    None of these articles are telling me what I need to know. What happened after the arrest? Did they approve this plaque? Is it still up for debate?

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      14 hours ago

      Are you asking because you’ve memorized the speech and wanna give them a second helping of badassery?

      I’ve read (and have no idea what to google to find a source so take my thoughts here with a heaping grain of salt) that it’s not the hardest to be the “first” person to stand up. It’s hardest and most important to find the second. After people see the second, it’s much more likely to snowball. Some assholes would pucker SO HARD if there was a follow up.

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          8 hours ago

          That almost made me cry. Seriously, it’s a snowball effect. Think about it in the opposite way. If I was in a crowd of people and someone yelled “Seig Heil!” and made a Nazi salute I would probably yell at and ridicule them, but if two or three more followed and suddenly hundreds are chanting it I’d be scared as fuck even though I’m one Aryan looking dude. Protests are important but they need to feel tension. Then it becomes fight or flight and whatever long-term plans they had just go out the window.

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          10 hours ago

          I show this video whenever possible because it’s so fucking awesome

          But it’s now a guidebook