I’d like to thank everyone for my most upvoted post on lemmy ever. Not only have you upvoted it to the top for like 2 days you commented the shit out of it. I’d like to take this opportunity to say fuck the mods of this instance. This was my second post coming off a 30 day ban and I want to say these fucking mods have been nothing but bitches. I’ve never been more attacked on any other instance, subreddit, forum, etc. then I have been in this fucking instance. Not only have I been attacked I’ve been told my memes arent memey enough again and again.
I’ll be honest, I do not know how to make a meme but I keep posting just to piss in these mods cheerios.
Thanks lemmy.world/politicalmemes for being the worst community I’ve ever been a part of.
the protests and work stoppages changed policies, not the occasional fistfights.
That’s what you’ve been gaslit into thinking so that you don’t get rowdy.
you are historically and factually incorrect.
as for your backwards insult, I am advocating for change through protest, which Is historically relevant in changing policy, while you are whining that nobody should “get rowdy”.
you are hiding, you have been cowed into believing you can’t make a change.
stand up. have some pride.
When?
That’s the exact opposite of what I’m saying.
Again, that’s the opposite of what I’m saying. We can make a change, but protests aren’t how it gets done.
“When?”
Gandhi freed India(1947
The Civil Right Act.(1964)
Women’s Suffrage(1920)
nearly every labor right you enjoy(from 200 years ago up to today)
nearly every civil right you enjoy.(sames)
There are literally countless examples.
All of your privileges you take for granted and are blissfully ignorant of were bestowed upon you by caring citizens who took the time to demonstrate their political will.
Sorry to burst the bubble.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign
I really want to be in a time of history where rapid, positive political change is possible through non-violence alone. Those levers were taken away by decades of anti-electoralism/accelerationism and it’s always easier to break things than to build them.
again, this 100% agrees with my thesis that protests are effective, your pretense of argument is nonsensical.
thank you for proving me right again, and if you want to pretend that proving me correct somehow benefits you, go for it.
This is exactly what I mean. You are gaslit into thinking those were accomplished through protests and not violent riots.
To be fair the liberation of India wasn’t accomplished through violence, at least not mainly. It wasn’t accomplished through protest either, mind you; Ghandi’s approach was simply not supporting the British occupation (which needed Indian collaboration to function) and letting it collapse under its own weight.
I wasn’t going to spend time getting into the nuance of each example and how protests didn’t actually cause the change that person thinks they did.
those wins were accomplished through protests, and this sounds like it’s going to shock you, but a violent mob is a form of protest.
You’re still agreeing with me, despite your efforts.
Whatever you want to tell yourself.
those are the facts, Jack.
If you want to play, make believy and not believe in history, that’s your fountain to splash around in.