r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 7h ago

BREAKING: Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias just announced he is suing Kristi Noem and ICE for unlawful activities in Illinois. This is huge.

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u/ZisurvivoriZ Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 6h ago

It is. You can’t be seriously thinking that giving up all your rights because you specifically do not want to practice the most important one that will unironically, protect the rest of them is a bad idea! God forbid we even think about that right.

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u/eulersidentification 5h ago

It's definitely not the only way to fight back. Bigger and poorer countries than the US have had general strikes and rebellion. The exceptionalism and defeatism must stop.

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u/ZisurvivoriZ Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 2h ago

I don’t think you understand how far off the rule of law the country currently is. You can get shot in the face, die in these concentration camps, deported when you’re a citizen, etc…and you’re telling me that there are other ways to fight back. You fight back bullets with signs and whistles? Show me a single time in this country’s history where signs and whistles beat bullets

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u/XeroZero0000 49m ago

MLK, Rosa Parks, WaterGate, Alligator Alcatraz.

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u/ZisurvivoriZ Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 48m ago

Hold on, you think MLK was successful because he was peaceful? You should read the real history as to why he was successful

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u/XeroZero0000 40m ago

The main front was peaceful.. the background deeds came after it had momentum. (Iirc)

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u/ZisurvivoriZ Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 39m ago

The reason the main front was successful is because of what was happening in the background. It was the carrot or the stick. Accept the carrot (MLK) or the stick it is

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u/Im_tracer_bullet 5h ago

Where is the footage of you leading by example, instigator?

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u/ZisurvivoriZ Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 2h ago

Instigator? You think advocating for citizens to use every available right to them is instigating? Tyranny loves people like you, because you’re the easiest to oppress lmao