Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 6 days agoDefensive Votinglocklemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square430fedilinkarrow-up1716
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minus-squarealmost_genocide@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·5 days ago Civil Rights got better for a time. Widespread riots gave us the Civil Rights. Crack open Wikipedia for a minute on that champ.
minus-squarepelespirit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoFirst of all, Civil Rights wasn’t a revolution. Second, that’s one of the reasons I said in the last 20 years, the military wouldn’t let that happen again.
minus-squarealmost_genocide@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·5 days ago First of all, Civil Rights wasn’t a revolution. I don’t give a shit what you call it. Point is it wasn’t brought about by voting. Certainly not by voting for pro-corporate trash.
minus-squareTiresia@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 days agoIt would have been if the government hadn’t acquiesced.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoWow it’s almost like change can occur without literal revolution after all!
Widespread riots gave us the Civil Rights. Crack open Wikipedia for a minute on that champ.
First of all, Civil Rights wasn’t a revolution. Second, that’s one of the reasons I said in the last 20 years, the military wouldn’t let that happen again.
I don’t give a shit what you call it.
Point is it wasn’t brought about by voting. Certainly not by voting for pro-corporate trash.
It would have been if the government hadn’t acquiesced.
Wow it’s almost like change can occur without literal revolution after all!
Not lasting change.