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“When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town, and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.”
Start with self-love friends, and then extend that love to the people closest to you.
While there’s some truth to that, I want to see self-love stop a fascist pogrom.
Insisting that the first step must solve all your problems at once is how you fail to take a single step towards solving your problems.
The first step is to embrace the fact that we’re taking a long walk.
Sophistry
Enough masturbation could solve that
Can’t choke fascists if you’re in bed depressed.
“When I was a young man, I decided to focus on myself. So did everyone else my age. We became known as the ‘Me’ generation. For some reason, the sum of all our individualistic self-help didn’t change the world for the better. A bunch of people who didn’t give up several times did change the world though, go figure.”
What the fuck does self love have to do with political violence.
Political violence comes from the desire to change the world, but caring for yourself and others close to you will bring a more effective and worthwhile change than violence.
As long as violence isn’t being actively enacted on me and my loved ones, I agree. But otherwise, I don’t see how this defends against people with a strong will for power. Violence does exist, and right now the state has a monopoly on violence to defend the interests of a select few and they are not hesitant to use it.
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I was 19 when I realized my parents were raised to be authoritarians. My grandparents would’ve been considered racists even in their time and both my mom and dad were raised in a little farm town. My parents are good people and generally want to do the right thing but explaining this to them and trying to make them aware of their biases has been a full time job.
I will not show the same love and respect to your parents. Go do your jobs so we don’t need step 2.
-Luigi
Nah, you need to realize your loved ones, and everything else you love is in danger by fascism, then use the power of love towards those things to gain inspiration in your fight against fascism.
If you ask: “gamergate” and similar things are just temporary things, usually just distractions from how capitalism decays art and “geek culture”, and of course a recruitment tool. But in reality, you would be lucky, if you could play some state-sponsored games on your choice of platform, and would likely have to parttake in some “book burning type of event”.
q aint anywhere near c bro, how’d you do that
There never was a typo in Ba Sing Fe!
I dunno though… The power of love is a curious thing.
I’ve heard that it can cause some men to weep and others to sing.
this is a great post. i think people have trouble understanding that great acts of violence can be born out of love for humanity. there are people in society that are threats to humanity. those people cannot be saved by love. many powerful positions are only achievable by people who lack empathy.
many people also have a hard time understanding that goose and gander arguments only confuse simple truths. we are not all equal. just because you use the same tools that evil uses does not make you evil. evil will use those tools regardless of your morals. just because you choose the high road doesn’t mean that evil will do the same.
we have an obligation as wardens of this world to insure that we don’t destroy it. that might mean weeding out those of us that would do irreparable harm.
I’m a combat vet and like some others realize it was for a bunch of bullshit. I’m pretty leftist and personally am pretty anti violence because of my experiences.
That being said, some systems and people only speak one language. Trying to talk to them in “human respect” and “compromise” is like trying to talk to a Frenchman in Chinese - if the options are violence or getting steamrolled then it is what it is. 🤷
I’m fairly anti-violence but I know it’s inevitable.
The world has a lot of social issues, and it’s going to take a complete upheaval before people become capable of empathizing with each other again.
The thing is it’s actually not inevitable. I suggest you read “How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them,” which is about exactly what it says it’s about.
I’m not necessarily thinking about just civil wars, although that is what the meme is about.
People are divided in more ways than just political view points. There’s a growing inequality that could potentially lead to a revolution of sorts, if people are willing. I can think of a handful of other issues that might lead to similar outcomes.
I appreciate the recommendation though, I’ll try to give it a read at some point.
Modern civil wars look nothing like the American civil war. What you’re imagining is probably within the scope of the book.
As everyone who’s ever read 8-Bit Theater knows, love is in fact the most powerful force in the universe when focused into a coherent arcane energy beam of absolute magical destruction.
Peace is never an option with fascism
What a twist! Really had me on the edge of my seat!
Seems like the next logical step though
Some men, you just can’t reach
Super based.
This nonviolent stuff’ll get you killed.
It’s important for two reasons
First to build support and legimize a cause. if politicians actually listen then the violence would not have been justified yet Exemplified by schools that divested from israel without calling in the cops first.
Second it is the only way a movement can grow mainstream before turning to violence.The Black Panthers got so many members because MLK did his non violent thing for years.
Does it count as love if I love violence? 🤔
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