Twitter knows my long standing position on #CreativeCommerceDisruption; oligarchs only care about losing money or influence. We need to stop thinking elections are our only leverage.
Imagine the cost if #MarchForOurLives activists were to encourage false alarms across America. In weeks, it could shut down the schools until Congress bans assault weapons, high cap magazines, and other serious gun reforms.
Or we could sit on our asses and wait for more people to die.
@shoq That's... a terrible plan.
These false reports put real people in danger.
Trying to get innocent people shot by the police really undermines your "guns are bad" position.
@LouisIngenthron I strongly disagree. Civil disobedience always carries an element of risk. The whole idea is to swamp the system and shut it down. When schools are too unsafe for education to happen, parents will force Congress to either act, or nod at the chaos and await voter wrath. It's time stop this limp resistance to fascism that has kept us in this inert and ineffectual stasis for 40 years. Only action begats action.
@shoq Putting innocent lives in danger to advance your agenda isn't "civil disobedience". It's terrorism.
@LouisIngenthron Must disagree again,. I've been studying CD fo 3 decades and that is simply incorrect, Neither Gene Sharp or Erica Chenoweth would agree with you. The mission is not to hurt anyone. The mission is to disrupt the status quo and raise the cost of enabling inaction. When an outgunned society has no leverage, it has to create some. Name me an alternative action plan. "Voting" doesn't count. If it worked. we wouldn't need disruption.
@LouisIngenthron A simple airport or freeway "Slow-down" puts innocent people at risk. Almost every other Greenpeace action potentially put innocent people are risk. When a society is already on life support, some risks just have to be taken. You don't get reforms with politeness or risk free gestures. You're simply saying that doing nothing is better than risking something. The enemy counts on that inertness. And they have for decades.
@shoq No, I'm very clearly saying that doing nothing is better than killing people for your cause.
It's a clear line in the sand you should not cross.
@LouisIngenthron I have heard this sort of cowering defense of inaction since I was in high school. America liberals keep bringing sporks to a gunfight. And they keep losing more ground to a determined enemy,. Mario Savio called for bodies upon the gears in 1964. We've never tried that. If not this one example, find others. But you will see that anything meaningful has risks. It's never too late for a society to actually do something., I favor not one, but dozens of these.
@LouisIngenthron Actually, I would. Perhaps not in the case of this one tactic, but I couldn't tell you if I did. There are many gears and many bodies and many opportunities for them to meet. We simply don't organize any of them. Which is why we lose. We're extremely good at finding things to not do. We suck at finding things we could and should do.