There have been some successful non-violent revolutions in history

I’m pretty sure that if you dig into the details of a lot of those, you’ll find that the purported success of the non-violent movement strongly correlated with the existence of a not-so-non-violent movement as the alternative.

For example, your article lists the Salt Satyagraha and the Quit India Movement as being non-violent revolutions responsible for the decolonization of lndia. But if you look at what actually ended up happening, such as the partition of India and establishment of Pakistan, it’s pretty clear that the not-non-violent All-India Muslim League had a pretty big influence in achieving that result.

Folks like Gandhi and MLK may tend to end up getting the credit for these sorts of societal changes, mainly because The Powers That Be have a vested interest in “the absence of tension” and thus engage in a bit of revisionist history, but it’s the presence of folks like AMIL and Malcolm X sitting in the background threateningly waving a stick that enabled them to be effective.

(That said, the collapse and liberalization of the Warsaw Pact are probably legitimate examples where the presence of a violent radical flank really wasn’t much of a factor… but I’m pretty sure that’s because Gorbachev’s heart wasn’t really in stopping them to begin with.)

I’m betting he wants to charge fees for ships traversing the northwest passage, and he wants that revenue to go to the US, not Canada or Greenland/Denmark.

Remember that whole “Constitution-free zone” thing the ACLU has been harping on about for a decade or so now? The shit happening right now is why we should’ve heeded the ACLU’s warnings.

Holy shit, a deka-post! That’s a new record, I think!

How is a “labor shortage” a bad thing? You can ask for more pay

Asked and answered.

What the oligarchs want is slaves, not empowered workers who know their worth.

On one hand, yeah. On the other hand, do you really want to make it easier for people like Steven Miller to get things done without Trump’s chaos interfering?

Great, now study how it affects humans.

I’m particularly interested in what sort of double-whammy compounding effect it might have on Boomers who are already brain-damaged from lead poisoning.

No offense, but that’s kind of to be expected since right-wing Cubans would’ve been disproportionately likely to flee communism.

Everybody hates it when people feign sympathy.

The thing I’m still trying to figure out about MAGAs is, do they hate it when leaders show genuine sympathy or disbelieve that it’s possible at all?