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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág Nov 10, 2024

Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

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Joe Nov 10, 2024

@TarkabarkaHolgy And I'll add to this an equally critical piece. The thing you are fighting and others are not isn't more important than their fight. We are parallel fighting, not working at crossed purposes.

The Gaza protests proved this point. People protesting those were so single focused they blamed the rest of us for supporting the "genocide" because we weren't equally upset by it.

Wrong, we were fighting other fights of equal import.

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Erin

@RegGuy @TarkabarkaHolgy the anti-genocide activists are a good example. They held to their resistance even as the state punished them by dispersing peaceful legal protests, firing professors, silencing senators. Dems (including the candidate) rejected them and refused to support their resistance. Fascism divided us and many Dems obeyed in advance, accepting state overreach towards some in favor of their own causes. We cannot do that going forward. We protect everyone.