asking people to die for a cause isn't exactly something I can ever approve of as it is the exact same mentality as the regime the cause is aiming to topple. Part of being better than the current regime is recognizing that "some of you may die, but that's a price I'm willing to pay" is never okay.

there's a difference between pain for oneself and death for oneself and one's entire family. The former can be tolerated. The latter is what you're asking of people who aren't as enabled as you are.

tbh is anyone even remotely surprised?

Oh I have.
Every day.
For the last few years.
I fought hard to avoid this regime from taking over because I knew once it did, every day of my life would be more impossible to live due to my demographics.

And sure enough, I might not be alive in 6 months anymore.

People die regardless, sure. But shaming and excluding people who aren't active in extended resistance turns those who aim to build a better world into the same type of people who they displaced.

The better path is to work around those limitations and figure out how to overcome the challenges.

It’s one thing to risk one's own life for a cause one believes is worth dying for.

It’s an entirely different thing to risk one's entire family's lives for the same.

How many are you willing to sacrifice for your idea of a better world?

How many of those people wanted to be sacrificed?

That is mostly true.

Sustained pressure, however, needs to be planned in accordance to the challenges and limitations of the majority of the people.

Plans made from a place of privilege afforded to some assuming everyone shares the abilities offered by said privilege are what must be avoided.

Try living every day of your life without the resources available elsewhere in the world and then see how much it feels like excuses.

Empathy is one hell of a thing too many activists forget to feel for those who are less entitled and privileged and fortunate than them.

That sounds like a potential plan to me!

It’s not a matter of not wanting to commit. It’s a matter of not being able to. Disabled people and those working 2-3+ jobs to avoid homelessness and starvation can usually attend one large event, but few provide actual answers for how those vulnerable people are going to survive an extended protest

It’s easy to gather when it’s half a day's commute to travel through three different countries. Not so much when three days gets only half way across the country.
Plus, those same countries also have Healthcare largely paid for effectively free.
Answers ignorant of American challenges aren’t answers

Other countries where people live five minutes from each other have no concept of the sheer scope of size and distance between Americans.

The majority of Americans live a 20 minute DRIVE from the nearest SMALL city. Many 2 hours from larger cities. Plenty 20-120 from their nearest neighbors.

These coordinated large-scale protests have historically accomplished the first two, and evidence indicates there’s potential headway in both even now.

And there’s plenty of examples in these posts of how the third has been effective and had local impacts.

There’s 3 purposes.
1: signaling to corporations how strong the people are.
2: signaling to politicians that all the letters they receive daily have far more constituents backing the viewpoint than the calls received.
3: networking, connecting with likeminded people to coordinate outside of them.

So, going to be busy for at least a month, likely to have high levels of silence.

As a heads up, tonight is the beginning of a planned trip to Michigan until mid-April.

And we're going through some trying times outside of that. (Which the trip is hoping to help address, but won't be an overnight fix where everything is magically okay after it ends, will require work after.)

Thank you. <3

Feel free to suggest how those who are working 2-3 jobs to avoid homelessness and starvation can sustain a shutdown for longer without being evicted, losing what little Healthcare they have, and their families starving.

Well then, you got an idea on how to pay for the transportation and the feeding of those going, and how to keep their families back home from starving or facing homelessness? Most people can afford a day every few months. Very, VERY few can afford more than that. Count yourself lucky if you can.

Feel free to suggest ways to create that sustainability for the disabled and those working 2-3 jobs to avoid homelessness and starvation.

Feel free to provide suggestions for how to make protests sustained when many people are working 2-3 jobs to avoid starvation and homelessness, dealing with disabilities.

good luck~

It takes a special kind of privilege to call those unable to protest longer "not willing to be uncomfortable".
Most of us would be evicted, starve, lose Healthcare, etc., because we literally can't afford to not work.

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I just had a seizure and I cannot drive my kid to school so they have to take an uber to school. It was $31 which was the last of our money. Could anyone help us so we can buy groceries that we were gonna use the money on?

unfortunately not as much as I ought to have, my current life circumstances severely limit my ability to stay informed about every important race across the nation (although I still try my best). I'm vaguely familiar with it, but not intimately familiar with it.

I'll say I'm personally not fond of that mindset because the mindset of "they have to feel the changes"/"they have to figure it out on their own" has driven a lot of the suffering in the last 150 years and closed off doors to other options. I personally feel we can do a bit more than that.

That's why I say the strategy is to make big promises, even if they can’t all be delivered on. These big promises can be backed by facts for those who are interested in learning the facts, but there needs to be a draw for those who don’t bother to research/learn. So draw them in with feelings.

Earlier you pointed out how people are deliberately ignorant and don't want to learn the facts. You can't beat deliberate ignorance with facts. You beat it by using their feelings, reframing their existing biases, but in a way which makes them inclined to vote for the preferred candidate.

To my knowledge, nobody has. Despite Rs running as Ds to get elected and then swapping party affiliation once elected, I know of no Ds who run as Rs to get elected then swap.

But in deep red territory, as long as it's legal, arguably they should.