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"There are leaflets on how to protest leaflets or how to commit civil disobedience. There are leaflets on what to do when you get arrested, leaflets on what to say to police," Daughtry explained.

He reiterated: "There is somebody funding this. There is somebody radicalizing our students."

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A few hours ago I read a ridiculous David Brooks article where he poked fun at the protests saying that modern decentralized movements are bad.

Then there’s the kind of movement we have in the age of the internet. Many of these protesters across the globe are suspicious of vertical lines of authority; they don’t want to be told what to do by self-appointed leaders. They prefer leaderless, decentralized, digitally coordinated crowds, in which participants get to improvise their own thing.

This horizontal, anarchic method enables masses of people to mobilize quickly, even if they don’t know one another. It is, however, built on the shaky assumption that if lots of people turn out, then somehow the movement will magically meet its goals. Unfortunately, an unorganized, decentralized movement is going to be good at disruption but not good at building a new reality.

archive.today • Opinion | The Protests Help Trump - The New York Times

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This could honestly be written by a left communist org lmao

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago

the only thing worse than a bad guy with a state is a guy you slightly disagree with with a state

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Come with me through the looking glass...

Horseshoe theory is real. But not in the way people think.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

David Brooks discovers Lenin

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

This is the exact thesis of Vincent Bevins' If We Burn. It's good you should read it

[-] T34_69@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Reading it right now, seems like the book for the moment!

[-] SeizeToothbrush@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

Shit. Did David skim Vincent Bevins's "If We Burn"?

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

This is at least a coherent and lucid take, unlike the Fox News article

[-] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

self-appointed leaders

I appoint myself to dictator of the world

Holy shit we did it it's communism time

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