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Sarah Campbell's avatar

Oh, come on. No one said frogs alone would win the war! Now is the time to unite and support each and every effort to resist and destroy this regime, not to pick at someone else's tactics. BTW, thank you the link to the Rosa Luxwmburg Stiftung site.

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EileenMc's avatar

Take back what means to be patriotic and FOR America. Dress Full On in red white blue ( not flag mocking or burning) and carry the flag in the dozens for inpack. The Optics will look Terrible when swat team ICE or padded armed Coppers are seen beating down nation’s flag colors! Says 69 year old leftie. Do both. Avoid any militant alien star wars type costumes.

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Godfrey Moase's avatar

We need more discussion on strategy like this.

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N. G. Scobie's avatar

Tl;dr: Yes

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Fiona ☆'s avatar

? That is definitely not the conclusion of this article.

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Thomas Callahan's avatar

Portland is using extremely effective tactics, IF they are linked to a deeper strategy. Laughtivism and dilemma protesting were key parts of Otpor! tactics that helped topple Slobodan Milosovic. The program Otpor! used to successfully do this is laid out in Srjda Popovic’s book Blueprint for Revolution.

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

My favorite Beastie Boys songs is Sabotage. The joy can serve as the distraction from, well, other things😉

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Good points, J.P. This is the fork in the road.

Here's some inspiration for you from Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVy99oiYszY

It's not as bad here as in the USA, but we're going down the same western neoliberal path that leads to fascism.

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