@ScottSoCal @Jaden2 also King understood as a practical matter that a violent uprising would be mercilessly crushed with untold #s of dead revolutionaries
@ScottSoCal @Jaden2 he also largely agreed with Ghandi that widespread โcivilโ disobedience evaporates the power of the powerful. The minority canโt rule without the consent/obedience of the masses
@SusanHR @Jaden2 @ScottSoCal indeed, the wounds have not healed.. my country Kenya has only been politically independent for 60 years, and so much of the colonial past influences everything we do today
@ScottSoCal @Jaden2 sort of but what gets left out on King side is the misunderstanding/oversimplification of nonviolence, which isnโt abt hugs & singing kumbaya. Itโs a COERCION tactic. Read MLKs โFill The Jails,โ which explores how the goal of nonviolent direct action is abt gumming up the system to bring it to a screeching halt. There is a Machiavellian power move involved. Non violent direct action is FORCE (minus military weapons). Gene Sharp has tons on this
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland.
Winter.
The forest river did not freeze.
There is a cozy warm house on the bank of the river.
Beautiful nature.
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@ScottSoCal @Jaden2 sometimes violence is necessary if your own government is responding only with violence.
@ScottSoCal @Jaden2 let me quote Nelson Mandela and his decision to resort to acts of sabotage aimed at power plants, military facilities etc that would cripple the apartheid government.
"At the beginning of June 1961.. I, and some colleagues, came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force."
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NEW: My new co-worker George Anthony Devolder Santos is a distraction and a danger to democracy.
Read my Op-Ed in @nbcnews: ๐
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/george-santos-new-york-colleague-congress-danger-rcna65794
BREAKING: I am calling upon the Federal Election Commission to investigate George Santos.
There is reason to suspect an illicit flow of campaign dollars through various pass-throughs into the pockets of the #GeorgeSantos campaign.
We need the truth.
Hmm, wonder why Fox News just can't stop harping on Secretary Pete Buttigieg's paternity leave...๐ค
Chasten's response to the faux controversy had me cackling, see for yourself here: https://www.comicsands.com/chasten-buttigieg-fox-paternity-leave-2659213681.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand
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