Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. - eviltoast

Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.

  • DrDeadCrash@programming.dev
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    5 hours ago

    There are not enough, by far. At this point (thanks to scotus) we’ll need a new constitution just to reclaim democracy.

    That is all without considering what Trump is likely to cause in his second term. Scotus has ruled that a sitting president cannot, officially break the law. That is not a Republic. Scotus has ruled that money is speech, and so our positions on issues have less (/no) value. That is not democracy.

    I’m not trying to be a doomer, just realistic.

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      Yes, we are in agreement on the outlook. As they’ve been saying in Ukraine, “The situation is grim”. My point was more about continuing to fight on all fronts, including the political/legislative fronts.

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        I absolutely agree we shouldn’t give up on any political fronts. I just want people to understand that we can’t count on it, a page has turned… Anyway thanks for the chat.