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Do Something (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I honestly don’t understand how you can read what I’m saying and think that I must be specifically talking about people martyring themselves or violent political revolutions and I would really appreciate it if you could just take my words for granted without making broader inferences about them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And when there’s finally enough people, nobody has to “go first”.

I mean, it's what the person you responded to was talking about..... Am i supposed to "take your words for granted" and also assume you were making a point completely disjointed from the original context?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

so like I’ve spent a lot of time studying history and revolutions and political movements, so personally when I see somebody say something as vague as “we should do something about this ourselves instead of expecting other people to” it’s very hard for me to assume that they must be talking specifically about violently overthrowing the government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you've spent a lot of time studying history and revolutions......in your opinion, what does it mean when someone says "we should take care of this ourselves"?

In reference to our current political situation, how else would an individual or a small group of like minded individuals "take care" of the situation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

it could mean a lot of things, such as widespread civil disobedience. It’s also not necessarily asking anybody to do anything right now, but to be open to the idea of organized direct action. The real point I’m trying to make is when a person says “you go first” reactively in response to any call to action, they actually become part of the problem that needs to be overcome.