"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down" Malcolm X
"; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists." G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." Robert A Heinlein
"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed." Thomas Jefferson
Doesn't really matter. They've been in perpetual tribal war forever, and without an external 'enemy', they'll all just start killing their traditional tribal enemies. They have genetically evolved themselves for perpetual strife and murder. It'll be "Death to _______ "(fill in the blanks) next.
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"; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists." G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." Robert A Heinlein
"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed." Thomas Jefferson
This in response to Schwarzenegger's "Fuck your freedoms" comment.
I hope people don't give up.
And do not count on your union because they are against the workers.
You have to self-organize independent of the union (Vaclav Havel's "parallel structures") and do it yourself.
It worked for the airline pilots, because they simply ignored their union and refused to work if the jab was to be mandatory.
Tenpoundbass says
Yep, look at the Pipefitters. Or what's left of the Autoworkers. The Union Leadership sold members out at least two generations ago.
Ducking bigot forgot proper gender pronouns.
Name: Abdullah Mohammed (he/him)
Occupation: mostly peaceful terrorist
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