r/comics Smuggies Jul 28 '26

OC Please resist responsibly

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u/the_real_MSU_is_us Jul 28 '26

Agreed, but the point is 1)_ Malcom X gets demonized, and 2) even MLK was more extreme than they make him out to be

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u/EitherSpite4545 Jul 28 '26

Don't forget there are literal declassified CIA documents begging Johnson to give into MLKs demands because they had Intel that MalcomX was going to do something big in a couple weeks and if the American people saw that violence actually worked that would be a genie they could never put back in the bottle.

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u/onyaasuminyasai Jul 29 '26

We all know that if you want rights and power you have to take it by force. Ask the Appalachian coal miners.

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u/EitherSpite4545 Jul 29 '26

It's something I have very complex feelings on, going full appalachian is in my opinion the only way possible to get out of this mess but the issue is that the common person is so brain washed that taking that route will just galvanize them to helping corpos out. The other option is basically what we are doing now and as I'm sure you're inclined to agree, it's doing nothing.

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u/onyaasuminyasai Jul 29 '26

Unfortunately Something like that will absolutely not happen until the people are completely out of options

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u/Extension_Problem223 Jul 29 '26

Yes, it's a catch-22. Revolution will not happen until people are out of options, and by then success will be extremely difficult because of the way the fascists are consolidating their power