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by guscost 1672 days ago
Pathetic. If you’re going to stand up to the government, stand the fuck up! Don’t hide like a rat.
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prohobo 1672 days ago
While your comment is needlessly inflammatory, you're right that this kind of behavior is considered "backwards escape" and is ultimately harmful towards the aims of dissenters. The right way to challenge totalitarianism is to build parallel structures (eg. stop supporting Windows by switching to Mac or Linux).
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guscost 1672 days ago
In this case the flame is necessary, because these people are behaving like cowards, and many of them need to be slapped out of it.
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version_five 1672 days ago
I am similarly annoyed by the "natural immunity" argument. Whether or not natural immunity is as effective as vaccination (it seems to be?), what I care about and oppose is having to prove medical status as part of daily life. As soon as you shift the argument away from "should we have to show a certificate" to "what gets you a certificate" or faking one, you've already conceded that it's ok to have to show one in the first place. It's not OK and I wish we spent more time on that.
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5040 1672 days ago
This is reminiscent of colonial generals denouncing the ambush tactics of guerillas as cowardly. If they were men, they would fight in the open, etc.
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guscost 1672 days ago
No. Here are your guerilla tactics:

http://www.jointhewhiterose.com/

Hiding will only grant legitimacy to tyrants.

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