I have never seen a dictatorship change because of its slaves crying and begging desperately for the dictator to show mercy.
A dictatorship only changes when it has no alternative.
It is not worth crying for the dictator to change, one must take actions that bring him to his knees and leave him no choice but to change.
Well said 🤣👌🏼
Wow. You’ve obviously never been tortured. You dont care whats coming out of your mouth in a situation where youd need to beg for mercy.
I have never been in the situation of being tortured by the regime, but my family went through it not long ago under the dictatorship of the Estado Novo.
And we only achieved freedom due to the courageous actions of the Portuguese Army and its generals, who cornered the dictator without alternatives, and not a single bullet had to be fired. However, it was necessary to unite the army with the people to make this possible.
It was not with words that the problem was solved, but with concrete actions that left no alternatives for the regime. Only then was it possible.
Thats horrible that that happened to your family and yes it does take action. One thing to think about is that theres a distinction between standing up as a collective to a dictator and standing up to a person that enslaved you. Even though legally slavery is banned it sadly still happens even in democratic countries. I hope they were able to recover and got the care they needed afterwards.
We only can win if we figth together, we need to organize, no to divide between who wants the same finality.
We are much more than them, if people are together it’s a battle we can win.
That’s true. No one will give up the power they have over you. Apple has no interest in ceding a potential 30% cut for peer-to-peer transactions because we consider it unjust.
Eviscerating monopolies and the neutered legal structure that enables them is the only way. There was a time when society headed Adam Smith’s warnings about monopolies, and used its public resources to prevent them. Neoclassical economics successfully convinced the people that deregulation and “free market” morality would free mankind. Now we can do nothing unless Google, Amazon, WalMart, Time Warner, Monsanto, and Apple get their cut.
That’s my point, if we continue to beg mercy for them and don’t change the aprouch they already win.
