Arms for the poor

@ironprometheus.bsky.social

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Communist, teacher, sci-fi/fantasy nerd, chaotic bi, xicano, vegetarian, legit snack

some of you really be like "I hate living in a police state 😔😔😔 i miss obama when we still lived in a police state but I didn't know about it 😔"
Calvin & Hobbes comic panel. Hobbes is eating a sandwich and says "I got MY wish." Calvin is visibly annoyed.
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!
While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed. He says to the oppressed, time and time again, “You don’t need guns, you are moving too fast, you are too radical, you are too extreme.” He never says to the oppressor, “You are too extreme in your treatment of the oppressed,” because he is powerless among the oppressors, even if he is part of that group; but he has influence, or, at least, he is more powerful than the oppressed, and he enjoys this power by always cautioning, condemning, or certainly trying to direct and lead the movements of the oppressed.