myrmepropagandistAug 16, 2023

If the idea of violent protests don't make you at least little scared I wonder how well you know history. At the same time, real change almost never happens without people putting their bodies on the line.

The right understands this far better than your average liberal/moderate. To be a moderate is to trust that existing systems will (mostly) work.

If those systems fail? What then? To even consider this is moderate treason.

(Cartoons by Mattie Lubchansky https://thenib.com/author/mattie-lubchansky/ )

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Mattie Lubchansky is the Associate Editor of the Nib and a cartoonist and illustrator living in Queens, NY. Their work has appeared in New York Magazine, VICE, Eater, Mad Magazine, Gothamist, The Toast, The Hairpin, Brooklyn Magazine, and their long-running webcomic Please Listen to Me. They are the co-author of Dad Magazine (Quirk, 2016) and the author of the Antifa Supersoldier Cookbook (Silver Sprocket, 2021).

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It is worrying what we need to sacrifice & when, to counter the right.

Despite their noise & vigour they're a fairly small % of our society, 'we' outnumber them. Yet we're without the heart for physical confrontation, which we see as weakness.

In the 70s, British National Front was trying to be ascendent & The ANL & others met them on the streets.

Even before that was:
https://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/battle-of-cable-street-east-london/

That's all less likely now & probably illegal under new British protest laws.

The Battle of Cable Street, East London

In the 1930s, one narrow East London street, Cable Street, became the location for one of the most famous anti-fascist clashes in England’s long history.

East London History:
Aug 16, 2023 at 1:52pmWeb