The Suffragettes just straight up killed people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign
Carrie a Nation was part of the temperance movement and would destroy bars and saloons with a hatchet. At least thirty times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation
Lyudmila Pavlichenko didn't fuck around or cut corners. She shot fascists. Hundreds of them. Also, met Eleanor Roosevelt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko
The Night Witches dealt with fascists using the world's original stealth bombers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
Judith used a sword
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes
The Gulabi Gang beat rapists with sticks
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/4/gulabi-gang-indias-women-warriors
Kurdish Women in the Peshmerga fought and contributed to the destruction of ISIS. Front line, machine guns in hand.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/peshmerga-female-fighters-frontline-sideline
Harriet Tubman carried a gun and lead Union troops as a scout during the Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Scouting_and_the_Combahee_River_Raid
Feel free to add on and pass it around. There's like 180 million women in this country and we only need to radicalize thirty or forty thousand of them.
Now picture what the context of this exact thread on Reddit would be :deeper-sadness:
" Lyudmila Pavlichenko should have voted the Nazis out of russia but also actually the Nazis were the heroes and killed evil stalin and were also welcomed as liberators 100 gorillionzillion checkmate commies slava ukraini thanks for the gold kind stranger"
Why didn’t the suffragettes just vote instead of bombings?
They invented the mail bomb. I didn't know until i looked them up today. It's a shame so many of them were middle class chuds, but I guess that's what you get when you're fighting for the rights of a single slice of society and intersectionality is 60 years in the future.
"You're not actually suggesting violence - are you? Reddit's TOS is quite clear on this issue. It states quote mommy-daddy-rucky-tucky-yada-yada-boot-licky-whoop-de-do unquote..."
Oh don't worry I was very specific in stating that no one should do any of these things because it wouldn't be civil.
Many times last year in r/politics I was sorely tempted to joke that Manchin and other recalcitrant dems be put in thumb screws until they saw the light and decided to vote the right way. I decided it wasn't worth a 3 week "temp" ban. Or the mods might have even permabanned me.
But I have regrets now. I should have said it. Maybe I could have made a few posts saying it until a mod did his thing. Of course that would mean I'd never, ever post in that sub again because of the TOS. Haha.
I have to admit - that I was certain Biden and the dems would pass at least part of BBB. Maybe a hacked-to-pieces 1/3 or it or whatever would limp to the finish line. It blows my mind that money ran out of covid and they did (and will do) nothing on spending for climate change, protecting voting rights, and protecting reproductive rights. And everything else utterly failed too. Police reform legislation for example. I figured they'd pass a very shitty police reform bill and then they'd lie a lot and like GOP justices and say it was "substantial". But they didn't even do that. They just said: "Nah, fuck it. Fuck it all."
I've mentioned that stuff over and over in r/politics and how I won't vote this year and I've never gotten a sane, rational response. Usually I only get downvotes. Or somebody starts ranting about something I didn't even say.
I get the impression most libs are so brain poisoned by West Wing that they've never actually considered the idea that the president can and should coerce people in to voting his agenda. Obviously the president doesn't want to, but all it would take is a phone call to the IRS and the DoJ to make some rich person's life miserable and he could get his votes.
I think Biden is both a useless dipshit, a reactionary dinosaur, and west wing brained, and the combination of those three elements in varying amounts means he doesn't have the chutzpah to actually coerce his "good friends" to do what they're told if they know what's good for him. The Dems... either they're completely, toothlessly incompetent, which is possible, or they're so ideologically brainwashed that they really don't believe the ends justify the means, or they're so isolated from normal people that they're not aware how close the country is to a breaking point, and how violently the GOP wants them all dead. Trying to make sense of their behavior is bizarre, given that the GOP conspired to have them all killed last year and they risk losing the legislative branch and executive branch forever. Which, like, fine, they get to be the permanent opposition, but they don't seem to understand that the Right views them as baby murdering cannibal demons and earnestly wants to kill them. They don't act like they think it's personal and will that they will be the targets of violence.
Not only is Manchin dirty - I bet his daughter is even worse. She's the reason Epipens are insanely expensive - just for starters.
I would add he certainly is ideologically brainwashed. He won't just cancel student debt in a simple fashion with an executive order - his brain is thoroughly ruined by ideology. If he does anything on that - it will be a confusing, idiotic mess with endless paperwork and loads of means testing. And I assume he actually thinks of cannabis as a "gateway drug". So an EO for that is an impossibility.
I felt so stupid last year when I finally realized the dems had begun starting to ignore that and with all their might pretending it didn't actually happen. They have world-class levels of denial. They seem to have no evolutionary instinct for self-preservation. It's shocking and fascinating.
I want to gleefully say I want the dems to lose ~80 seats in the house and a bunch of senate seats. But - of course - that's a new more horrible nightmare. The dems would flail around in total panic like a chicken without a head and then they'd make a huge lurch to the right in a moronic effort to stay alive.
Yeah. It's a great time for a revolution, it's just not gonna be our revolution. Which is very very bad.