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If they can elect a felon to the white house, so could we.

Edit: Better image, thanks to @PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee

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[–] kiterios@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

It's not an oppress or be oppressed issue.

Nonviolence only works when your opponent has humanity.

The point of this is that both sides need to be engaged in making a nonviolent solution happen. If only one side is on board with the process, then the result is either a lack of change or one sided violence.

Look at how much progress we have made in Europe since the second world war. We’ve done so much through diplomacy alone.

In Europe, both sides are engaged in nonviolence. Both sides are interested in diplomacy over violence, so progress can be made.

The situation between American's and corporations (and increasingly corporate controlled government) is one where nonviolence has been met with inaction. That is a single sided engagement. The lack of both parties being engaged means the approach isn't working anymore.