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As long as we’re too comfortable to bother committing our free time to fighting these injustices, the ones enabling/enacting them will be too comfortable to bother with stopping.
Civic engagement is only optional if you feel represented and supported by your government.
Now I’m gonna go so I can smoke weed and play video games to block out how bad things are.
I don't even think it's about being too comfortable. Most people aren't comfortable with the situation overall, but it's hard to see anything we can actually do about it. The time to stop this was in 2024.
There's such thing as feasibility, and any military strategist who lasts long enough to earn the title understands this. Michael Collins didn't just show up and start bricking British soldiers in the public square.
George Washington, Charles de Gaulle, T.E. Lawrence, Leia Organa; agree with them or not, these people knew better than to wage a lopsided war out in the open, and that's the only way they (or the movements they led) became anything more than footnotes in grad-level history textbooks.
Even Ho Chi Minh if you prefer that example, he knew better than to wage a conventional war of attrition against a military superpower.
The German resistance didn't last very long after Nazis took power. If it weren't for an alliance of military superpowers waging a coordinated war on (more than) two fronts, the Nazis might never have been deposed.
So all these keyboard warriors who say "Do something, cowards" are really idiotic. I don't even bother trying to talk sense into them anymore.