cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27417200
https://bsky.app/profile/chenoweth.bsky.social/post/3lkqrdxha3k25
Link to full article from WagingNonViolence.org
We're only getting started. I'm getting tired of people from other countries demanding that I go out on the street and die. Not least because it's a fucking idiotic knee-jerk strategy that would fail instantly.
We need to build movements and communities, not go on suicide runs against the most heavily armed government on the planet. People don't just get up and revolt, they still haven't revolted in Hungary and Orban has been there for 20 years, Vucic has been in Serbia for 8. But somehow there's an expectation that we need speedrun a revolution in two months because Trump supporting scum constantly blab about the 2A, as if they were ever on the side of democracy.
I get the frustration because too many people still don't give a shit. But in the US successful civil resistance has been much more about sustained direct action at the local level like sit-ins, boycotts, freedom rides, civil disobedience, etc. Marches are only one part of that. Most people who bring up the civil rights movement don't know what the fuck they're talking about.
