Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 06, 2023, 03:50 PM* Or it could just piss people off and get you killed when the FEDs smoke your ass.  Protesting Burning Man is a lot safer.  I doubt the protesters expected NAZI tribal police.

Safer, definitely, but safe doesn't start Revolutions.

Quote* Not the way to start a revolution.  A new cultural hegemony must be forged before such an event can trigger lasting change.  A vanguard must have popular support or qualitative change can't endure.

You're not gonna forge a new cultural hegemony requesting Burning Man attendees fly in by commercial jets either.  Sinking a container ship on the other hand is a revolutionary act.

If everybody would just be nice and live small like me we wouldn't need a revolution.  Unfortunately, most people will not willingly live as small as I do.  In fact *I* would not willingly live this small.  I only do so because I am an impoverished cripple. lol

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QuoteSinking a container ship on the other hand is a revolutionary act.

At the store, when the district manager is around, shoplifters are called code 99s.  When the district manager is gone, shoplifters are called roaches. 

I'll likely be fired if I stop a roach from taking something.  The policy is to let thieves take as much as they can carry.  The loss (shrink) is considered the cost of doing business.  Stopping shoplifters are a liability nightmare and no big box wants the multi million lawsuit when some asshole breaks a bone or kills a shoplifter who has not properly left the store and is not even guilty of a crime yet.

A few sinkings a year will be the cost of doing business, but there will be consequences for perpetrators.


BATTLE BETWEEN POLICE AND MEMBERS OF SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY

This is the way America rolls.  The nail that stands up is pounded down.  And this is called democracy don'tcha know.