i just... am so sick of these posts that are like "Just a reminder that it's OK to do nothing and take care of you and your own" like holy shit can you imagine saying that to the "Good Germans" during the lead up to the holocaust??? Can you please imagine how it feels to see "it's OK to do Nothing" to people whose lives and families are being affected by this??? It's not OK to do Nothing. That's called being complicit. the Good Germans didn't even KNOW about what was happening. We Do.
Zachur zachur zachur!!
in before i get people in my mentions like "but what about my helpless wife and my poor daughter whomst is ill with the whooping cough!!!"
all the revolutionaries and activists and people who fought back we read about in history? they were not all single twenty-somethings with nothing to lose. they were often fighting *for* they families and the families of others.
only you can assess to what extent you can take action but for crikey's sake you're not going to go to jail 80 years if you go to a rally
as a good friend of mine put it:
"You are taking a small but not insignificant risk of getting arrested whenever you drive a car, but you do it anyway because it is necessary. The same goes for political action"