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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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What did you guys not learn about civil disobedience?
It's non-violence, but it breaks the laws "designed to keep things civil." It's meant to disrupt, it's means to obstruct, it's meant to annoy the shit out of the people you are protesting.
I haven't seen any civil disobedience. Which is weird because the boomers did it all the time.
A protest isn't civil disobedience. Boycotts aren't civil disobedience.
A crowd of hundreds blocking a bridge is. People blocking entrances to government buildings is. People surrounding bases is. People flooding the capitol or disrupting the discourse of policy is. The reason they use the military and ICE is because they are terrified that people will remember that even 1% of the US doing this far outnumbers them.
The absolute whining from people when they are moderately inconvenienced is depressing. "Sure, death camps are bad but did they have to block the bridge? I'm going to be late for my brunch!" Well, the person in a camp is going to be late for stuff, too.
Which is why it's effective if coordinated and done well. It makes things relevant immediately for the public, for officials, for businesses.
It will annoy them to the point of either joining them out of frustration, or at least saying "do something!" To the government.
I have no misconceptions that they will happily massacre civilians when those orders arrive, but until those orders arrive they are only trying to intimidate. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the current orders are quite simply: "Walk and look scary."
They are clearly more afraid of us than them. They're nothing more than buzzing insects with stingers.
I've seen someone on this platform, call out people who block bridges as having a "lack of empathy because you've never had to be somewhere on time"
You're so right, how dare I make someone late for their dentist appointment. Let the genocide continue, by all means.
On a more practical level, it can be counter productive to the protester's cause though. I used to work at a busy convenience store in a city where I would talk to many people throughout the day about what was going on in town, including one day when a small group of protesters shut down the major freeway in the area. It only turned the majority opinion against them and increased support for police. Literally no one so much as even mentioned what they were protesting about, let alone gaining support