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I've seen a lot of ink spilled recently over the Harris campaign's recent adoption of the tactic of calling Trump and his cronies "weird". There's a lot of hand-wringing over the Democrats ceding the high ground or being unserious about serious matters, but this article, and especially the source material it links to by Sdrja Popovic (a non-violent Serbian revolutionary during the Milošević regime) about the power of humor in non-violent movements, really changed my thinking on this.

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[–] senseamidmadness@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

"Marxists have failed to gain power because they think too much" is one hell of a liberal elitist take from the author of this article.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] senseamidmadness@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

This is exactly what I was thinking of. American liberals are almost entirely ignorant of how much violence their government exports -- and especially how much of it is targeted specifically at leftists. Marxists haven't gained power in the US because any time they started to build working-class support they got murdered.

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