• KittyCat@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?.. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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      While I agree with the spirit, I have to stop you here

      But had understood they had nothing left to lose

      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-threatens-to-use-insurrection-act-to-put-down-protests-in-minneapolis

      You should be asking yourself why does he keep threatening this? Why doesn’t he just do it? Why would he need this to escalate? What is he waiting on?

      Clearly, he’s antagonizing because he wants the U.S. military (and all of its weapons and drones) to carry out what his small illiterate army of Nazis is already doing in American cities. What you have to lose now is that you would be handing him exactly what he wants.

      It may be inevitable, but what do you accomplish by making it any easier on him?

      Make him keep begging for it. Make him keep showing the whole world what a pathetic greasy little orange shit stain he and his storm troopers are.

      Let history remember how pathetic and disgustingly passive aggressive the most “powerful” man in the world and his army really were in their war against America.

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        He’ll generate what he wants regardless, that’s the point. We should be peaceful yes, but we should match any escalation against peaceful protest, because doing otherwise shows there is no consequences for escalation. In other words let them make the first move, but be ready for it.

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          but we should match any escalation against peaceful protest

          It depends on what you mean by match it. Your goal should be to humiliate them, and make them look like the feeble minded simpletons that they are, not to provide them with a victim narrative.

          Friendly reminder, they are trying to get protestors to fire on federal officers by antagonizing protestors with their (probably bullet proof patrol cars), most likely to justify the defense argument currently being used by the officer who murdered Renee good.

          These are some pathetic and passive aggressive little bitches on a power trip. It would be easy to make them the victims. Don’t do it.

          https://sh.itjust.works/post/53375650