• FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Why isnt anyone swarming the private, for-profit detention centers? People like talking about guillotines but not the Bastille

    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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      15 days ago

      Because if they go after any corporate entity directly, there will be guns, and death, and the survivors will be arrested for trespassing and vandalism and a slew of other crimes.

      They want to be loud and safe, not effective for a cost.

      • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        The “you first!” defense just says you know that revolutions are gross and icky and you want someone else to do it instead of joining as A GROUP and doing what has to be done. Lone wolves are doomed to failure so the Status Quo appreciates your solidarity with them.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      15 days ago

      that’s not how democratic changes are done.

      progress happens because people demand that society walks in a sane direction. taking things into your own hands basically never does anything good.