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No Nazis: Be Like Chris Kluwe, And All Who Came Before

www.commondreams.org No Nazis: Be Like Chris Kluwe, And All Who Came Before | Common Dreams

Amidst the dark chaos, we got a "masterclass in effective resistance" this week when former NFL punter Chris Kluwe rose in a California city council meeting to decry a dumb, unctuous proposed plaque that spells "MAGA," which he deemed "explicitly a Nazi movement." As the packed room cheered, he dec...

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None of these articles are telling me what I need to know. What happened after the arrest? Did they approve this plaque? Is it still up for debate?
- It's Huntington Beach. They approved the shit out of that plaque and then goose stepped out of the meeting.
- That plaque is going to get defaced regularly
  
  Nothing a little thermite can't fix.
  
  Might work better to apply for an equivalent plaque stating MAGA are Nazis and make them justify the No in court
  
  I’m beyond thinking that the court system is going to save us.
- Are you asking because you've memorized the speech and wanna give them a second helping of badassery?
  I've read (and have no idea what to google to find a source so take my thoughts here with a heaping grain of salt) that it's not the hardest to be the "first" person to stand up. It's hardest and most important to find the second. After people see the second, it's much more likely to snowball. Some assholes would pucker SO HARD if there was a follow up.
  
  This video kind of illustrates it: https://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ
  
  That's perfect; saving this one.
  
  That almost made me cry. Seriously, it's a snowball effect. Think about it in the opposite way. If I was in a crowd of people and someone yelled "Seig Heil!" and made a Nazi salute I would probably yell at and ridicule them, but if two or three more followed and suddenly hundreds are chanting it I'd be scared as fuck even though I'm one Aryan looking dude. Protests are important but they need to feel tension. Then it becomes fight or flight and whatever long-term plans they had just go out the window.
  
  I show this video whenever possible because it's so fucking awesome
  But it's now a guidebook

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