Then you should already understand that keeping your actions “legal” doesn’t guarantee protection, and that forgoing effective means of resistance only helps the oppressors to have an easier time oppressing your fellow people.
The voters are not responsible for your oppression. The regime that is engaging in oppressive practices is.
You forget the fact they are doing this to countless people regardless. They don’t get to make that choice to just sit this out.
It’s called having solidarity with those being targeted, accepting the same risks they are being subjected to by simply existing, in order to help defend them against oppression. Part of that oppression is how the State has designed its laws to inhibit the ability of people to fight back against it.
If you allow the opposition to dictate how you are allowed to resist, then you already lost because they will never just allow people to effectively resist their authority. Change requires mass civil disobedience.
Or, continue to follow the rules of the oppressors, fail to effectively resist, and when they are done coming for their current target, they will eventually get around to coming for you, except by then you won’t have anyone around to help defend against it.
Yes. The entire point of direct action is to have an immediate and noticeable effect.
A protest is meant to disrupt the status quo in such a way that the establishment is forced to meet demands or else we continue to bring things to a standstill.
If your protest is not disruptive of the status quo, it is being ignored.
You and I have different metrics for “success”
Don’t forget the MOVE bombings where police literally bombed a residential area in Philadelphia.
Stop giving a shit about what is illegal. It was made illegal because it was effective. The establishment doesn’t want you to be effective.
People in this country have forgotten how to protest effectively. They have allowed themselves to be defanged and relegated to the sidelines where their actions will be inconsequential to the establishment they are protesting against.
Too concerned with “optics”, legalities, and trying to naively appease the opposition by asking nicely with a sternly worded letter.
That would actually be bed bugs who solely reproduce through traumatic insemination, where they literally have knives for dicks and just repeatedly stab the female to nut in their body cavity.
Nature uh … Finds a way …
Explains a lot of ignorance in general tbh
It is truly depressing to remember the vast majority of people, in the US at least, are only about as smart as a 6th grader.
Legitimately, the majority of people would still miss the signs. People just don’t want to admit how little we truly pay attention to what is around us at any given moment. Our minds filter out so much information before we even have a chance to process it.
We have socially conditioned ourselves to ignore signage if we aren’t specifically looking for it. 99% of signage in today’s world is usually just an ad being shoved into your face trying to sell something. It is a bombardment of annoying and intrusive information to the point our minds have trained themselves to filter the visual noise out. It is literally too much for our mind to process, so most of it gets deleted from our consciousness in the same way the hole in your vision from your optical nerve is being hidden from your perception unless you specifically expose it.
Good thing they weren’t specifically talking about billboards and instead were speaking to the much broader spectrum of advertising strategies.
Your scale is off. Religions and cults are the same thing. The only difference is how accepting society is of them. There is no third option.