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Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
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I mean to an outsider- the Red, Pink Lavender, Scares, McCarthyism, slavery, war on drugs, terrorism, citizens united, world police, Vietnam, jim crow/segregation, prohibition, womens suffrage, strikebreaking, company towns... are all examples of freedoms being restricted by the government and applauded by the press and culture at large at the time, and later reflected on as a terrible thing.
Civil Disobedience has always been anti-American.
I'm from a company town. I had no idea that was ever seen as a bad thing. Locally, we saw it as a source of pride. Never heard anything bad about it.
I mean I'm thinking more of Pullman when I listed it - extremely dictatorial governance about what you can buy, where you can live, what religion you can practice and full control over the economic microcosm to the point where people cannot leave because they are paid in scrip, and civil disobedience was punishable by death
This has nothing to do with being American, it's about being a decent human being, there's a shit ton of Americans who disagree with her.
While you're definitely right that this is more of a decent human being thing, I'm actually a really big fan of the "good American" narrative.
So many of our fascist peers believe they are being good Americans. Let's distort their view back towards the ~~individual~~ collective workforce instead of the oligarchy
Towards the collective you mean, the reason why the US is so shit is because of the focus on the individual and because the US is so good at exporting its culture everywhere it's now affecting other countries and sending them down a regressive spiral in the name of individual freedom.
Yes actually you're right. I said individual because I meant "the little man" but "the little man" is more accurately described as the collective working class than any particular individual. None of us are individually the little man. We are all strong and capable of great things, so long as we work together as a collective. The little man is the idea of those who need to be protected, and we all need to be protected. Thank you for the correction
I can see it as American thing tho. Ya all were all 'bout freedom, no? Some dumb schmuck enter yer property, ya shoot im dead . Gov decides to be a dick, ya shoot em dead. This lady seems more on pacifist side and instead did that.
Buddy, if the US burns, it's going to take a lot of developing countries with it...
It's already happening as US aid has been cut off all over.
what we did to snowden and manning was a damn shame. there is so much on the last two decades to be ashamed of. smh.
Hey buddy, while I share your sentiment, only we're allowed to shit on our own country. You can go fuck yourself.