• marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Marxism isnt a orthodoxy that needs to be followed like a religion, im not going to judge the protest actions of others if it serves to protest a ongoing genocide being comitted by that persons government.

    You absolutely should be against chain suicides, like any good person is.

    Firstly, cool. That doesnt change anything about how much you’re smugging over a dead person rather than allowing it to inspire.

    Because it shouldn’t be copied, by anyone. There were many dozens of people that did this during Vietnam, of similar ages. Did that cause America to stop? No. None of the protesting did. Military defeat at the hands of Vietnamese communists did.

    ‘Inspiration’ and nonsense does not make a change in the world. All it does is add another sad headline, of which there are plenty to be had.

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      6 months ago

      You absolutely should be against chain suicides, like any good person is.

      ‘Chain suicides’ you’re inserting a bunch of nonsense no one has argued for. Lenin absolutely sent people to commit acts of violence on his behalf, and there have been many examples of suicide protest during occupied nazi europe having an impact.

      You judge these things as not being impactfull the literal day after it happens, this is ridiculous. Its had enough of an impact we’re sitting here talking about it, this can be said to be more than most are doing.

      Because it shouldn’t be copied, by anyone. There were many dozens of people that did this during Vietnam, of similar ages. Did that cause America to stop? No. None of the protesting did. Military defeat at the hands of Vietnamese communists did.

      It pressured people to come back to the table, of course it did. Your ignorance of the impact of those protests doesnt make them not impactfull.

      ‘Inspiration’ and nonsense does not make a change in the world. All it does is add another sad headline, of which there are plenty to be had.

      It likely sounds like nonsense because you’ve already accepted defeat.