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That's well before the Nazis had power

I have to disagree here: symbolic actions are how you get people hooked on action. Big ones like this have a significant bandwagon effect. Its very much a good use of a couple hours

The Germans didn't have any kind of huge protest movement. They executed people for doing things like holding a private dinner in honor of Einstein.

Big protests are a key part of how we avoid that situation.

I'll happily welcome anybody who flips because they recognize how awful Republican policy is. That's important if we are going to have a durable majority

The brainwashing is much harder when its your own community turning out

They care enough that they're trying to talk it down. Having a big chunk of the population turn out to tell off a dictator is a key step in how they lose power

Symbolic actions lead to practical ones — My friend group has been canvassing for Yes on California Prop. 50. Making popular support visible gets more people on your side, so we are all taking a couple hours to attend the rallly.

Basically, if we start shooting, that will result in a military response, and the US military is really good at massacres.

Meat first, money second

The "radical left " had the temerity to object to the hate

Lol no. The point of the pipeline is to enable Canada to sell tar to South America. No benefit for Americsns other than the pipeline owners

A VPN which shares an endpoint with a lot of bots might do it, as will running a "privacy" browser extension which strips the gift token off the URL, or disabling Javascript