Pikachu

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• tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

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  • jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Nonviolence is fine, as long as it works.” — Malcolm X

    “In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.” — Stokely Carmichael

    “A riot is the language of the unheard.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

      –John F. Kennedy

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What does “the United States” refer to here? The government? The populace?

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    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Both perhaps, at the time of his assassination MLK Jr. had about 80% of the country hating him.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sadly, this is true even for workforces, even though the cost of treating your labor pool well (giving them breaks, letting them chat with loved ones and surf the internet) is surpassed by the profit gained by increased productivity. (There are studies.)

  Game developing companies still crunch, even though crunching decreases the likelihood that a deadline will be met.

  A recent How Money Works video (this one on YouTube) came to the conclusion that the ownership class is just plain cruel and vindictive and is disgusted if their workforce gets even a modicum of class consciousness.

  Every concession for labor, from the weekend to lunch breaks to bodily autonomy to living wages had to be attained by leveraging power against the ownership class.

  So long as we have ownership class, we will be oppressed by them.

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  • QDgwZjQYdfbnMdMNQ@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I agree with your points and don’t agree with crunch practices, and this is a bit of a nitpick, but what’s your source for crunching decreasing the liklihood of meeting a deadline?

    I can easily imagine those things having correlation, as if you’re already on track for a deadline, why would you need to crunch?

    I can’t really think of a complete reason for causation to go the other way though.

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    • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I remember news coming out about it in the early 2010s that a study showed that crunching reduces productivity drastically, to the point that even (only) two weeks of crunching will negate the additional work time. Curiously, some game companies at the time were crunching for a year or longer. I believe the statistic reported was that productivity commonly was reduced to 10% normal when crunching.

      James Stephanie Sterling did a video about it, which is how the news came to me.

      Studies from the aughts (not necessarily related to game development) regarding the effect of micromanagement tools used on the workforce (e.g. mouse movement monitoring and keylogging) came earlier, noting that the time wasted by workers (under the label of time theft ) doing activities such as going to the bathroom, checking social media, talking to loved ones on the phone, getting coffee, etc. were more than offset by the increase in productivity when workers were allowed to do these things. (Slacking workers do exist, but they are starkly the exception. And large companies typically have a significantly greater number of bullshit jobs – workers tasked with busywork that doesn’t actually serve administration or the profit motive – than they have shirkers.)

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• sepiroth154@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Comrade Pikachu.

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  • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ungovernable

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone with a strong autistic sense of justice and hyper empathy, usually the fight is between the psychopaths and whatever idiots they’ve manipulated to their cause against the rest of us. They’re psychopaths and narcissists, they have no morals. That’s why they’re evil. You can’t appeal to morality that isn’t there. There’s only one way to deal with them and they’ll pick us off one by one, like they always do, while we hem and haw with delusion about how everything will be ok.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s tons of ways to deal with them. I’ve heard vegans suggest compost, and people concerned about prions suggest autoclave.

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How many data centers could a Pikachu power?

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  • wizblizz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wrong question. How many could he fry?

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    lmao. You have just now been hired to run as a republican. We’re going to put billions of dark money behind you.

    ~ Theil, Ellison and Texas

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That was literally what MLK and Gandhi did.

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  • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure MLK only worked because the Black Panthers were doing a good/bad cop thing.

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    • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, basically. Between MLK and Malcolm X, no matter how you wanted to resist, they had you covered. That’s why the government killed them both.

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    • WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And the changes MLK sought only came following the race riots after his death. I don’t want to discredit him because he was essential to the civil rights movement, but ultimately his martyrdom is what brought the change he fought for

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    • Tango@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure the Black Panthers only worked because MLK was doing a good/bad cop thing.

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  • SignalFound@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Gandhi’s method wasn’t the only method for India’s fight for independence.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, just the one that worked.

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A bunch of European monarchies also voluntarily granted power to democratic institutions.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s crazy, what happened to them?

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    • stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They contributed to winning the fight and made history.

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  • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ghandi wasn’t actually a pacifist, though, it was just a tactic that happened to be expedient at the time

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Damn right Pikachu! Now get back in to your ball and fight others of your species for my entertainment!

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What a detached-from-reality take.

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  • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, but it’s won by appealing to the moral sense of the masses. OP specifies “the people who were oppressing them”.

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• ideonek@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This lettering is a form of oppression.

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• Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nope, it’s usually guillotines

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe not “the people” who are doing the oppressing, but it worked when appealing to the individual.
  Society is a bit of a bitch… individuals hold their own beliefs, but when paired with other people, their beliefs get washed down and a singular belief takes hold.

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  • draco_aeneus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ultimately, the difference between getting freedom from an individual and a group is exactly that it’s a group you need your freedom from.

    With a group, you cannot make a personal appeal. And with a group, it will always consist of some nice people but also some right bastards. The nice ones might concede to your freedom, but the bastards will not. And since it’s in their direct interest to oppress you, which side will work harder, you think?

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Walk softly and carry a big gun” Gabriel Angelos, Chapter Master, Blood Ravens Space Marines.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I knew Teddy Bear Roosevelt was a 40k nerd

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  • DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Space Marines give da best advice!

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• splendid9583@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur#Assata:_In_Her_Own_Words

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• Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So, Pikachu, what methods work and need to be used?

  Or are we not allowed to discuss that anywhere because they violate the ToS of every platform people could use to discuss and possibly plan the use of such methods since those platforms are owned and controlled by the folks in control or afraid of legal action by said folks?

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d suggest counter-economics, unions, mutual aid, generally just a bunch of direct action.

    I’m all for eating the rich too, but we won’t get there just by wishing really hard. We have to show people how a better world can be built. You’re doing it because you want things to change, most people who cooperate will just want to improve their financial situation.

    Are we even particularly censored here? Luigi Mangione

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    • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sort of but not really. You typically get away with things like saying you think we should all get together with torches and pitchforks and purify the global .1% with fire and then utilize all of their assets for public good on Lemmy, but the ToS says:

      “We do not tolerate serious threats or calls for violence.”

      Since most of the time things like that get said they’re said in a way that could be called hyperbole or a joke they generally get ignored, but if I started trying to get us organized and collecting wood and pitchforks and planning dates and locations and listing names of the folks we should definitely make sure we don’t miss burning to death then someone will start stomping on it.

      Rhetoric and grandstanding is fine, but actually doing anything about all the fraud and child rape and fascism is highly frowned upon.

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• ncc74656@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or voting

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• sachamato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pikachu the wise. Loving it.

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• Bombastic@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cool maymay, can’t find the OG image. Anyone care to help?

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I broke up with my crazy ex. That was definitely freeing, and I don’t recall any violence.

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  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You were voluntarily being oppressed and decided to stop volunteering for it

    It’s not like immigrants can just “break up” with ICE

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      People in abusive relationships are “volunteering” to be abused?

      Well…that’s certainly a take

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Gotta love it when someone is like “Here’s this problem in society…” And someone else goes “Nah it never happened directly to me so you’re wrong.”

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• Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder whether we have actual numbers to support this. And not just anectodal, or single individual events. But on a larger global scale, also investigating whether alternative measures have been taken and whether they suceeded. And then putting them into relation to each other, carefully considering potential limitations in the interpretability as well as implications, before forming conclusions regarding any recommendations of optimal action.

  Or, put simply, is violence really the best way to deal with oppression?

  This is also sharing some overlap with protesting methods. And I am not quite sure whether we have a definitive answer to that.

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  • TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This isn’t really true. Most successful revolutions in the last hundred years have been largely non-violent. I mean look at the dissolution of the USSR, for instance. Or Hungary recently, although how much of a revolution that is is sort of up in the air. Or Spain. I think the numbers are something like once 3% of the population is in the streets you’re donezo.

    I mean, also, like, India was directly and very much this.

    That isn’t to cast aspersions on violent revolution, but it’s more of a narrative than reality, at least now.

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    • Oppopity@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Shelling your parliament with a tank isn’t violent?

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• avocado@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Source trust me bro

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