Please be a broken clock moment please be a broken clock moment.

Narrator: It was not.

Naturally, the solution is to interrogate the critique rather than the problem. That approach has an impressive record of success.

Many people, likely a majority, are not in a financial or practical position to participate in a boycott or general strike. That constraint is not accidental. Considerable effort goes into structuring economic life so that such actions are difficult to sustain, and additional effort goes into convincing people they are even more powerless than they actually are.

Even within this comment thread, some seem to overlook the range of options that exist between blowing whistles on one extreme and violent confrontation with the red hats on the other.

Position’s already taken, I’m afraid.

I’m not as well versed on that event as I would like, but isn’t that another example of a peaceful protest that turned into a shooting gallery?

I just don’t understand why good people are so prone to think letting the bully repeatedly punch them in the face will work. Some people won’t stop until they are stopped. Everyone knows this. There’s a lot of forms that can take, but blowing fucking whistles clearly isn’t it.

When are we going to learn that strongly worded letters and protests that turn us into a shooting gallery are not a winning strategy? How many good men and women need to get assassinated before we try something different, anything different?

It won’t work. A significant portion the theft machines have already stolen was supposed to be protected as well. But. Welp.

I meant we don’t deserve the sympathy, not that we don’t deserve the misery. I could have phrased that better.

It’s not happening to me on Firefox mobile.

We don’t really deserve it. Trump’s first term could arguably be excused - maybe he wasn’t going to be as awful as people said.

The second and third time we knew exactly what we were asking for. There’s really no benefit of the doubt to give on time 2 and 3.

I’m actually really curious to see what the Navy thinks the role and function of a modern battleship should be.

A coral reef, probably. There’s a reason battleships aren’t made anymore. Moron might as well be boasting were going to make the biggest bestest most bigliest Ironclads the world has ever seen.

If you mean the 34 felonies, that judge effectively said his punishment would be nothing. Which is very fun by the way - when has a non rich person gotten to shrug off dozens of felony convictions? He was never charged, as far as I’m aware, in connection to the coup attempt.

We’d also be done with him if he’d been prosecuted for the crimes. Even though they were fairly minor, like trying to usurp the will of the people and overthrow democracy, it would have done the trick.

Man’s scrambling to change media and public focus. Scrambling.