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Posadas [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

2y ago

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[Hard: Success] — War, and murder, and violence...they're all just so terrible. So, so many people are suffering, every single day. And worst of all are the ones who pay back violence with violence. You worry that it merely ensures an unending cycle of ever more violence. Just more and more people being hurt. It is a history of abject failure.

— "Haiti, Angola, South Africa, Cuba, Vietnam. I could genuinely go on."

— Oh-ho, this one knows much, Sire! Good, good! This may prove to be an interesting debate...

[Challenging 12] — Recall everything you know about the history of violent uprisings.

CHECK SUCCESS

— Delving deep within the recesses of your mind, poking around inside all of the grey little folds and corners, you manage to come across a pale, faded memory. Exerting a little concentration frees it from the gummy surface of your liquor-pickled brain, bringing it into focus: it's the sum total of all of the knowledge you have ever possessed about the history of violent uprisings.

— It's blank.

— No. Surely there has to be something in there.

— You're a moralist, detective. Why would you know anything about history?
Did Malcolm X ever actually abandon his position of self-defense by any means necessary?
- No
  MLK Jr. never did either
  It's an attempt to whitewash history to convince people that pacifism is The One True Path to Equality™
  
  MLK Jr. was not alive to see the bulk of the civil rights act. Most of it was passed a week after his assassination, after the worst riots America had ever seen. Wonder what changed and forced the state's hand?
  
  Cool, I thought I missed something.
- No, he became less of a Black Nationalist and more accepting of white allies in the struggle, but he continued to believe that armed militias should protect black communities if the cops refuse to, at least as far as I know of him.
what ended apartheid? well, obviously, our thoughts and prayers finally got to them
- It was the right argument that finally ended oppression~
I have to give him some credit for immediately backing down and admitting that he actually knows nothing about history. The ideal time to realize this is before you make a sweeping statement about all of human history, but sure, I guess you can do this too...
- Nah, give him no credit, that shit was retweeted by 400 people who will believe he is correct.
- I would if he had had at least the decency to word that first tweet as "I think ... a history of abject failure", but he straight up spitted it out as fact.
TWO TIME CHAMPS BAYBEEEEEE!!!!
- 3 at minimum isn't it? Japan in 1945, France in 1946-54, USA et al in 1955-75.
  
  Plus beating the CIA's boy Pol Pot, and China, too!
Unfortunately this man is not enough of a liberal to understand that it was the thug Nelson Mandela who normalized the lack of civility we see in Palestine today.
Just vibes ~~~
You've entered the vibe zone. Come vibe it out with me here.
Well I originally thought Palestine was justified in fighting back against their oppressors but this guy's vibes based historical analysis made me realize the error of my ways.
What a 𝒦𝒦𝒦𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓇 𝑀𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉.
notice how the his sole example is an European country
they need to harness white guy confidence & audactity and put it in a pill or smth
- Apparently that's just cocaine
- We need to engineer the plague but for white guy confidence.
Wow that's so weird that the one example the guy gives is one of the rare recent instances of white people fighting their colonizers huh weird
- aside, I'm actually surprised he considers it a success seeing as how most libs find it deplorable
Is there anything white Americans love more than preaching from a position of confident ignorance?
- Playing devil's advocate, closely related
I may not know anything about this topic.. BUT
remember when extreme violence and bad then MLKJ showed up and asked to end racism nicely and then WWII was over and Malcom X and then everything was good until first 911
It's simple we uh ~~kill the batman~~ VOTE
Dudes historical analysis stopped at elementary school.
what an absurd comment lmao
in fact its one of the only ways to succeed
no more half measures walter

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