Progressive Politics

Great quote, but there is no proof that it's by Sophie Scholl or her brother Hans. Please stop the misattribution.

Also while I do see some truth in the criticism, I also think it's unfair. Sophie and Hans Scholl were truly heroes, but their impact was rather insignificant. What shall someone who wants to protect their family learn from their example? You speak up and you get killed and nothing changes.

Power for change does not come from the individual but from the masses. That's how Hitler got into power and that's how his regime ended (albeit by different masses in both instances).

I really struggle with this. I don't wanna fight, I can barely get out of bed in the morning, but if no one fights it only gets worse

Frodo: "I wish it need not have happened in my time

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us"

Also reminds me of:

there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop

there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I'll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn't charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but they're not wearing a face mask, and that's the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer's market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen it's warm today, too warm for March. But I don't have time to think through the implications because there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

MLK said very much the same about the "white moderate." Centrism kills.

It’s fucking hard. Bc I have to be willing to lay down my life, which is admittedly privileged, when I don’t see enough comrades willing to do the same. I’m hardwired for survival, not sacrifice.

On the other hand, if the likes of Hitler would have lived small and died small, a lot of atrocities wouldn't have happened either.
I very much agree on standing up where you are for what's right.

But beware of people trying to change the world.

This really does come off as victim blaming.

The blame for the atrocities of Nazism is squarely on the Nazis, and their instigators and enablers, not average Joe who wants his kids to grow up with a father more than he wants to grab a rifle to shoot Hitler.

I'd say the blame is primarily shared between two groups, the people who create the conditions for Nazism to flourish, the victorious Triple Entente elites, or today's billionaires, and of course the opportunistic genocidal maniacs themselves, like Hitler, Trump, Netanyahu, who ride that wave into power and channel it into hate towards the weak.

Of course, the average Nazi is culpable too, but they are victims too. Both of those can be true.

That quote if for all you liberals who won't shoot back.

I often think what we as a society would get from Sophie Scholl if she lived in "peaceful" times. Even from her herself if she survived WWII.

Or are indeed out there concurrent Sophies Scholls but are being discredited and effectively silenced?
(Even much more effectively than Sophies words were at her time)

Silenced because they can't activate us, havers of smol mates?
The world is a fuck.
(and thats because it has people in it)

Spoken like someone who doesn't actually have a family.