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People keep going all doomer when they realise there’s no legal way to make things better and they just quit, like they’ve never considered that’s when it’s time to start breaking laws.

Peaceful protest is to let the people you’re protesting know you have the numbers that if they don’t start doing what you ask that you can unleash your inner Ron Pearlman, and when they ignore you, because they will ignore you, you must then unleash your inner Ron Pearlman

Moose Jolly Holcomb Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack unleash your inner Ron Perlman is a perfect description.

botvolution Aug 7, 2023

I keep on saying, we need to start burning shit down

Bethany Black Aug 7, 2023

@botvolution you may say that I couldn’t possibly comment

cwtshycwtsh Aug 8, 2023

@botvolution
One could say so!
@BethanyBlack

Hteph Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack my theory is that people quit and become apathetic… until they really are in the corner with no way out, then the Md G gets to work.
It is when the Elite forgets about the corner and keep pushing … things happens, and ten or hundred or thousands of us will die for each of them.
And I fear that there is a corner coming up over there…

Another Angry Woman Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack I think things have been so comfortable for those in power for so long that they've quite forgotten why so many forms of action were made legal: that it's the compromise. They'll get quite a nasty surprise as to what happens when a picket line is made as illegal as just fucking burning down your boss's house.

Fade Aug 7, 2023

@stavvers @BethanyBlack There's that old joke about a line of soldiers slogging through the mud toward their posting, and realizing they won't make it on time:

"What's the penalty for being late?"
"Death."
"And what's the penalty for rebellion?"
"Death."
"Welcome to the revolution, brother.”

Bethany Black Aug 7, 2023

@stavvers I live less than a mile from the site of where Lord Leverhulme’s house was burned down by a suffragette. I think of this often

Spaghetti Aug 8, 2023

@stavvers @BethanyBlack this 💯

Mayfly Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack Inner Ron Perlman is a beautiful phrase! Thank you!

Seiðr Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack Ron Perlman: "We know where he lives!"

union whore Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack I agree, but who is Ron Pearlman and what did they do?

L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ Aug 7, 2023

@lilianalytic @BethanyBlack I'm delighted to be able to share what actor Ron Perlman said in regards to Disney boss Bob Iger's comment about the actor strike:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EcdvuV81F_M

Striking Actor Ron Pearlman Responds to Anonymous Studio Exec

YouTube

Frank Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack
Ron Perlman is such a perfect choice for this. From everything I’ve seen the man seems like a kind hearted, chill dude, but he can play badasses so well, and I’m pretty sure that, given the right situation he’d be entirely capable of fucking shit up. Funny thing about kind people, a lot of us are like that because we understand how shitty life can be, and we don’t take kindly to assholes and bullies.

Christmas Tree Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack “Peaceful protest is to let the people you’re protesting know you have the numbers”

Love it

sparseMatrix 📻Aug 7, 2023

It is unfortunate that I am at the point where like the outer Ron Perlman, my inner Ron Perlman is just too damned old for this bullshit.

Wokebloke for Democracy Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack
Yeah. It isn't quite time to start talking what alternatives are when you're denied representation by those who think they are permanently in charge.

Violet Madder Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack We are painstakingly trained to believe there are no options, much less solutions.

Rhinos Worry Me has moved Aug 7, 2023

"I called for non-violent protest for as long as it was effective ... a tactic that should be abandoned when it no longer worked."
- Nelson Mandela

Tanys Foster Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack it's right there in the name: "be gay, do crime"

mhenry Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack Every time I see one of those videos of a store being looted all I can think about is Marie Antoinette. Looks like the cake eating days are almost upon us.
Our overlords need to wake up and read the signs.

Mark T. Tomczak Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack "Th-this flies in the face of the American tradition of peaceful protest!"

Fig. 1: The American tradition of peaceful protest.

@BethanyBlack Case in point:

If something is effective, the state will criminalize it.

May it be trans healthcare, abortions, drugs or guns...

Nic Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack but who decides what is “better” - sometimes the “better” advocated by protesters who break the law and resort to violence is actually worse for some others

roofuskit Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack Legality is not and has never been morality. So many abhorrent things have been legal.

discountstorytime Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack Ron Pearlman friend of Orcs.

RickRussell_CA Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack hope Ron Perlman knows that he's become emblematic of the Unleashed Beast

JohnW Aug 7, 2023

@BethanyBlack This is what it will come down to. Those that make the laws are lobbied, connected or even threatened by the biggest polluters... so the "rule" part of the law doesn't really apply any longer.

David Gerhart Aug 7, 2023

I'm imagining: Dialogue on protest / resistance between M.Ghandi and R.Pearlman

If it's a matter of patience? Or something more?

wheatley gaming Aug 8, 2023

@BethanyBlack nonviolent civil disobedience my beloved 💕

Raccoon 🏳️‍🌈

@BethanyBlack
Also recognizing that there ARE legal steps that ARE being taken (Mastodon, Rolling Jubilee, vote-out campaigns, etc), which WILL give us inroads to more democracy and less capitalism/corporatism, and that they are actively looking for people to get on board with time, donations, and spreading the word.

the escapist Aug 8, 2023

@BethanyBlack easiest follow

SuperTwaddle Aug 8, 2023

@BethanyBlack 💯🎯

nailbasher Aug 9, 2023

@BethanyBlack we need mass protests all over Britain. We are slowly but surely crushed . Time to rise up and give the so called established order a good kicking