Jacob Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University, cautioned in a Blue Sky thread that the case involving a Maryland man the U.S. government acknowledges was "wrongfully deported" has reached a "crisis moment."In March, Kilmar Ábrego García was accused of being an MS-13 gang m...
    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      And that grew into protests and riots, so… what’s your point?

      Hey guys, guess what. Authoritarianism isn’t trivial to beat. All the other authoritarian states in the world aren’t just full of lazy people who didn’t use the one simple trick. Turns out both propaganda works and a lot of people are actually scared of being murdered or sent to a gulag.

      But again, you get none of that if you try to skip the first steps.

      • newfie@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        24 hours ago

        If the conclusion is that a revolution is necessary then protests and riots are obviously insufficient. Which means that posting is not the correct path, particularly because it seems to be very lacking in building irl community, though it is effective at convincing posters that their engagement is “doing something”. It isn’t, aside from enriching tech oligarchs through their attentional engagement

          • newfie@lemmy.mlEnglish
            12·
            21 hours ago

            If the goal is to simply build towards protests and riots then that is a foolish goal because protests and riots are insufficient

            If the goal is to build something larger than that, then different methods are required

    • Lightor@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      This guy has no idea what nuance is.

      The Boxers lead a rebellion in China and failed horribly, accelerating the very thing they were trying to stop. Guess rebellings is bad too.

      What a bad faith argument.

      • outerspace@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 day ago

        I don’t think it means it is bad, it could just do nothing, but dissenting online is the easiest nothing you could do

        • Lightor@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          This is an example of where it didn’t do nothing, it actually made things much worse.

          Dissenting online is, believe it or not, how people become aware of issues and know they’re not alone in how they feel. It’s a precursor to actual events, like we’ve seen.