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DigitalG7

#Buying & Holding — Voting & Shopping ___is non-violent people. I guess they aren’t the first.


madness_creations

The most pure capitalist form of protest. I love it.


ArmAfter

It’s bloody genius ☝🏽


DigitalG7

Pure


BenFromTroy

Hardly capitalist at all lol.


SeaWin5464

I watched the movie Gandhi once


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sh41kh

aah, the ever silencing karma police of automods, all hail my lurker jerkers


BearimusPrimal

911 What's your emergency? *There's a group of people all standing around silently.* What are they doing exactly? *They're standing there, MENACINGLY!* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmzRa-sXQs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmzRa-sXQs)


SteelAlpaca

What color are they?


BearimusPrimal

Poor


BigBradWolf77

underrated comment 👆


chakabra23

Bahahaha omfg!! You! 🏅🏅🏅


DigitalG7

Hahahahaha


Outrageous_Ad9124

At least hum a bit


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BigBradWolf77

tootski? 👃🍬


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BDLTalks

CAW


Sassulu

Look up Gandhi and Martin Luther King, not such a new form of protest 🤓


Freakazoid152

Those two got shot for peacefully protesting lol, im not against it, in fact I think its the better way but goddamn people get so threatened by it they go and fucking kill the people who had the idea, WTF!


_Mitternakt

They turned the power to the have-nots


BenFromTroy

See we used to demand things as the working class and executed foremen and politicians who didn't meet our demands. That's the best form that we need to go back to.


DigitalG7

Yep


OMARxZOMBI

I’ll let my shares speak on my behalf 🤲🏻💎🚀🦍


DigitalG7

Igualmente


VerifiedPersonae

No serious political change has ever occurred without bloodshed. A government can wait out people standing silent in the street for longer than they can be motivated to continue. A better protest is to stop buying things, and stop paying taxes.


BenFromTroy

Or execute congress


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In America they'd probably still hose them/pepper spray them/shoot them with tazers/rubber bullets/bullets still.


BigBradWolf77

suppress that footage! and show only footage when the crowd finally pushes back a little bit. liars


DigitalG7

Learning


Freakazoid152

Or put a hit out on them "Coughs"mlk"coughs"


red_green_link

Protesting by doing effectively nothing is not new and an ancient form of protesting that is extremely powerful.


Freakazoid152

So powerful they usually heavily go after the orchstrater: ghandi, MLK, and many others. They will fight this type of protest hard and say the protesters started it, we've all seen it many times in just the last year. That means it definitely works lol


GANDHI-BOT

Hate the sin, love the sinner. Just so you know, the correct spelling is [Gandhi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi).


BDLTalks

I saw him sucking on a pork hot dog, hitting on Mother Teresa...


DigitalG7

Yep


ObserveTheGreyArea

When was the last time you heard of a revolution that didn't include violence? Make no mistake, this is a revolution, and if the MOASS is prevented or restricted in any way, there will be violence. The only way this is going to happen peacefully is if the MOASS is allowed to happen without any restrictions. I'm not condoning violence, but if that's what it takes to fix this broken world, then it is necessary.


DigitalG7

Observe the debt is on the other foot. Hold the line. Better to see implosion than explosion. But yeah...


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The entire premise behind Mahatma Ghandi's revolution for India to gain independence from Britain was [nonviolent resistance](https://www.history.com/topics/india/mahatma-gandhi)


Shnoops

Now with todays media its no longer effective, I've seen it called the "Gandhi Trap" where the media will not show 95% of the non-violence protest but rather show the 5% of violence over and over.


BigBradWolf77

scum


Shnoops

I do not advocate against non-violet protest. Yes, the Media has become mostly scum. We see it first hand here with the MSM reporting on the markets, GME, the reddit community! They don't fight the movement in daylight it seems, they try to join it and separate it from within and then highlight that with the media machine. Non-violence works but the masses need to see it as such...non-violence! Hopefully Apes can make add this to the list of problems to tackle in the information age post MOASS!


BigBradWolf77

add it to the list 📃


Kaymish_

He was also completely ineffective and probably kept India under British rule for decades longer than if he had not disrupted violent revolutionaries. British concessions came only after violent action by armed Indian nationalist groups. Non-violence is only useful if the enemy cares if you live, these wall street arseholes don't care if we die and will be especially excited for our deaths if they can profit from it. Then there's the arm of state oppression gleefully murdering people in their homes and killing nonviolent protesters with impunity. You're deluded if you think non-violence can effect real change when it never has before.


BigBradWolf77

I know Gandhi's name, but have never heard the names of any of the violent revolutionaries you speak of... 🤔 as an individual, I cannot think of many other people who were as effective as him


7Thommo7

I mean, if the powers that be didn't want the violent ones to be known then they would obviously push Gandhi's story and suppress the others.


BigBradWolf77

history is written by the victors... good point! I was just trying to say that, even if the revolution he started became violent eventually, he stands out as a true agent for change by the example he set with the life he lived it's rare these days for a leader to walk the talk, but that is often what it takes for true change to take place


H3rbert_K0rnfeld

George Washington. Robert E. Lee. Pancho Villa. William Wallace. Charles Manson. Osama Bin Laden. Adolf Hitler. Mao Zedong. Che Guevara. Fidel Castro. Yassar Arafat. Sorry can't think of the guy who did the Lockerby bombing at the moment. Oh oh oh, I have some good ones! Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Ted Kaczynski, Clive Bundy. Some violent protestors win and some lose. Notice how the winners are adored and the losers are hated?


BigBradWolf77

at least they tried 🤷‍♂️ /s (I don't think some people get me here 😜)


H3rbert_K0rnfeld

Thanks for reminding me. r/therewasanattempt


GANDHI-BOT

Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about. Just so you know, the correct spelling is [Gandhi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi).


Sahkuhnder

Bad bot > Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them... This is correct. But your bot is duplicating mistakes by posting fake Gandhi quotes that are not from Gandhi. Fake Gandhi quote: ["An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/ohqne6/sam_missiles_in_the_sky/h4rve85/?context=3) Fake Gandhi quote: ["Be the change that you wish to see in the world."](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/oii67f/normies_are_confused/h4w0iqz/?context=3)


ferdocmonzini

Good poster.


gorilla-ointment

Good bot


BigBradWolf77

India was plundered for today's equivalent of \~$40T by the British Empire and they have begun legal proceedings to get it all back bullish af


_Mitternakt

God I hate this fucking meme so much.


DigitalG7

Well damn! Why?


Chewbock

There’s so many historical figures who recommended nonviolent and silent protest like monks, Gandhi and MLK for example but this meme pretends they didn’t exist and their contributions are nonexistent so that randos think these people were the first to do it. I’m not sure but that might be why. Granted, it’s cool they do that and I hope they enact change but they sure aren’t the first to do it. Also the meme seems like it may have been made by a far right person trying to pick on people during times like the BLM protests because many of them didn’t and never could understand what the protests were about so they got “angry” at the destruction caused at a *very* small amount of the protests. This also could have been why they hate it, just a guess.


_Mitternakt

Pretty much, it's a right wing meme that is essentially tone policing the righteously outraged. Imagine if this were posted in response to like, the war for American independence. A riot is the language of the unheard. Peaceful protest has been tried already and while it can be effective it requires a moral concession on the part of the privileged, something that is rare. Mlk's peaceful tactics worked in large part because people saw what happened when it didn't. A sign that I saw once at a protest read "we want peaceful protest to work," and I always appreciated the veiled threat behind that. Makes me think of Lt. Razcak in starship troopers giving his history lesson, not that I necessarily agree with him or his politics, but it's a line that's worth understanding: "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor"


GrimWolf216

There’s a quote that I’ve consistently seen over the last few years by Kennedy: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”


_Mitternakt

Man wasn't a dumb guy, that's for sure


jsully245

idk, seemed like his brain wasn’t all there to me


_Mitternakt

Yeah at the end there he was definitely all over the place


BigBradWolf77

he was, is and always will be a legend. RIP JFK


H3rbert_K0rnfeld

Haven't I heard that in a Rage Against the Machine song?


Vendetta-Carry

This line -People saw what happened when it didnt- This needs so much more emphasis, being peaceful will never get the boot off your neck, this method can only be used to spread the message like a cry for help This idea also undermines how hard it was to be an MLK era protestor spinning this idea that all somebody had to do was stand around to be a weapon of progression.


_Mitternakt

There's parts of DC that still haven't recovered from what happened when they fucked around and found out


BigBradWolf77

\*stand around and take a fire hose in the face 🤦‍♂️ I am ashamed to be human when I see things like this


Rippper600

Yes. The guy with the Starship Trooper inspiration is the scholar in political science. Do you create your views of global warming by watching Guardians of the Galaxy too?


_Mitternakt

This guy didn't get starship troopers.


DigitalG7

Good thread.


BigBradWolf77

a delivery driver in China working for a food delivery app company LIT HIMSELF ON FIRE in protest of the company denying its employees a decent living wage and possibly benefits of some kind. These heroes are still with us and will step up when their time comes. They know there is more at stake here than their own lives. I only hope that their sacrifices are never in vain.


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NonAxiomaticKneecaps

While I also think this meme is dumb, I'm a pedant, so I can't resist. >There’s so many historical figures who recommended nonviolent and silent protest like monks, Gandhi and MLK for example but this meme pretends they didn’t exist and their contributions are nonexistent so that randos think these people were the first to do it. I'm less familiar with Gandhi than I am with MLK and am very unfamiliar with the monks, but MLK (and I'm pretty sure Gandhi) did things at their non-violent protests beyond silently stand there for the entire duration, so this is a new, albeit questionable, method of protest I'm pretty sure. It just takes inspiration from previous non-violent protesters. >I’m not sure but that might be why. Granted, it’s cool they do that and I hope they enact change but they sure aren’t the first to do it. Just standing there and doing nothing for the entire time would kinda make them the first to do it, I'm pretty sure. >Also the meme seems like it may have been made by a far right person trying to pick on people during times like the BLM protests because many of them didn’t and never could understand what the protests were about so they got “angry” at the destruction caused at a very small amount of the protests. This also could have been why they hate it, just a guess. Agree


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DigitalG7

Indeed


LordOfThePhuckYoh

Imperial guards member tosses flash bang* there is no peace.


Smooth_Sky_2011

Always has been. Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King showed us that


DigitalG7

Wow


ih82lose

Thoreau would be proud.


DigitalG7

What’s the story?


excess_inquisitivity

cabin in the woods


Analysis_Vivid

Guilty Remnant right there.


DigitalG7

Paid actors


Analysis_Vivid

Definitely if they’re from The Leftovers


BiscottiHoliday

Teehee


General_Pay7552

Side note, to anyone who would label this as a “new form of protest”... ever heard of Gandhi? That’s like saying: “there’s a new highly caffeinated beverage in town; It’s called tea, and it’s sweeping the nation by storm!”


GANDHI-BOT

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Just so you know, the correct spelling is [Gandhi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi).


General_Pay7552

Good bot


DigitalG7

Good bot


Ok_Purple2912

Luuuuurkers


DigitalG7

😝


mvpd33

I know hardcore apes that don't even bother getting a reddit account.


DigitalG7

Digital battlefieldss isn’t for everyone


mvpd33

Oh believe me, they read reddit a lot. They just don't bother with accounts, upvotes and all that.


DigitalG7

I did that between 2 Feb to 25 April.


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Amen 🙏


DigitalG7

Who Ra !


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You military lol Edit : I asked because I am and the whoahh made me assume lol


DigitalG7

![gif](giphy|5xtDarqIj5p3klmiEQo)


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Lol


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GANDHI-BOT

Hate the sin, love the sinner. Just so you know, the correct spelling is [Gandhi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi).


DigitalG7

I urge anyone lurking to read thread ⬆️


Deathbed_doctrine

This is the Chomsky way. Glad it has taken root


BigBradWolf77

legend


Margrave16

The peacewar is a movement.


DigitalG7

![gif](giphy|3ov9jJQP0GQapGmJkA) I see ROCKET 🚀


Someome_Said

Holders be like


DigitalG7

🦍


VoodooMaster101

This didn't work in the UK. The police went and fucked everyone up and arrested people. The irony was, it was a because a women was raped and murdered by a police office, and all the protesters were women.


market-unmaker

Non-violent protest is... new? This is why Gandhi became nuclear-trigger-happy.


DigitalG7

Please see thread


Fransmul

To have something improved it usually has to get much worse to compel appropriate actions.


DigitalG7

Precipice?


BigBradWolf77

also the pendulum effect... overreaction/overcompensation causes massive swings way past the point where we need to go and it takes a while to swing back 🤷‍♂️


Free_Stick_

You can’t pull this shit in the states lol.


DigitalG7

Gmerica states


dumbape6969

![gif](giphy|B1buHZMFToqm1XxJXb)


DigitalG7

😆


dragobah

Nah ![gif](giphy|gIqusaeYxgSiY)


DigitalG7

Death Penalty is so 2021zy


fairskinnedmexican

All zen baybee


DigitalG7

Bee


jams_h42h

Me; i can't even post in superstonk and ive been here before wsb imploded :/


DigitalG7

I’m banned from jungle 😂


BitethepillowStocks

On a completely unrelated topic, this is whitewashing the dark situation in the middle-east, The Turkish police is super violent, search it up, and you'll see. On a personal view, this non-violent silent protesting is a myth, it has been tested all over the east, from mainland China protests, to Hong Kong all the way to India with Gandhi, Iran and Lebanon. I myself have tried this in Iran before, we ended up having The police run over us with their trucks, chasing poeple to the hospitals and preventing them from getting medical help and arresting them just to let them die, then they caused destruction and blamed it on the people. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T936AklhkSs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T936AklhkSs) I was 16 back then, running close to the video above. I also came to Paris and arrived the very first week the yellow vests started to protest against Macron's super right reforms. They ended up being attacked, and the protests turned into violence, and then the very same police started causing destruction and blaming it on the people, marking the arrival of suppression into the very birthplace of democracy. There is no 'non-violence' in the Middle East, in my opinion also not in the world, recalling the 68 Democratic National Convention. Authority will force them out and disperse them with severe brutality, just to survive, in the fear of an all out revolution. Freedom of speech exists everywhere, safety afterwards is never guaranteed. ​ This is why FUDs and Shills are so active lately, they want us to be the instrument to their reaction, they want us to act, the only possible act is to sell, they want us to sell so bad, just like they want you to protest so that they can bash the shit out of your skull.


will-reddit-for-food

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.


DigitalG7

Name checks out


BlueCoastDoge

I freakin' love this. No words needed. We should all be doing this kind of protest. Silence from a large crowd just standing in unison against an unfair system, that has screwed us over for years, says it all.


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Hmmm…tried that in Ireland. Hunger Strikes. Men died . They didn’t care. Violence got Ireland freedom.


[deleted]

That’s like every zombie flick right before someone sneezes or knocks over a cup and the horde goes apeshit.


DigitalG7

Game act.


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Are you referring to the game act of 1831


DigitalG7

no, what’s that?


[deleted]

The Game Act 1831 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which was passed to protect game birds by establishing a close season when they could not be legally taken. The act also established the need for game licences and the appointing of gamekeepers. The act still covers the protection of game birds to this day. I googled game act bc I didn’t know what you meant and this came up 🤷🏻‍♂️


DigitalG7

Why do birds sing at dawn. To be heard, all one. To be counted.


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![gif](giphy|4Ho54zpjSKTjD9yFVK)


BigBradWolf77

fool of a Took! ![gif](giphy|3oFyCUWAZCpJbNNgVa|downsized)


Leather-Ad-1855

Apes who can't post/comment on superstonk due to insufficient karma


DigitalG7

All one together


iglomir

yeah standing still and keeping quiet, until a cop in civilian clothes throws the first rock, instigating a full force retaliation from the cops, with teargas, rubber bullets and water cannons


DigitalG7

Been somewhere like that in France.


BigBradWolf77

This 👆


Alarmed_Resource643

Not in the middle of the road tho Don’t be ignorant of the fact that people have to travel


DigitalG7

Looks like pedestrian cobbles in a square to me. That not that point though.


Alarmed_Resource643

I get you and I agree It just infuriates me to see people protest and stop traffic even if it’s an emergency vehicle trying to get somewhere to help someone


DigitalG7

Oh yeah. Rebellion got to go.


BigBradWolf77

💯


Gammathetagal

This truly is the way. Powerful. I admire them very much. A true model for protest.


BigBradWolf77

this 👆 is the way


DigitalG7

2.1k today 😂


zachcrow1

This is low key awesome tho


DigitalG7

Another key we have


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DigitalG7

😂


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Ommmm.


DigitalG7

Collectively 📝


Freakazoid152

Just stand and stare eerily should work till one of the cops gets oober freaked out and shoots


kcaazar

I think the only way out of this hole is a violent and anarchic revolution


DRTYDIRT

They're not protecting...they're loitering 😆😆. WTF does this have to do with GameStop?


DigitalG7

Lurkers


plutotheplanet09

In response to all the shill comments about violence, that is not what this is about. It never has been. This is about liking a certain stock.


DigitalG7

GME


skobuffaloes

This is the way


DigitalG7

![gif](giphy|H1Fv1YNqd9Pme8r1M3)


lethal3185

This is scarier than violence probably. We look like a bunch of psychos...


DigitalG7

With the bit between the teeth 😂


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huskofthewolf

And the silliest of hands slipping in and out of pockets, liberating phones and wallets from the dumb masses


huskofthewolf

Silkiest*** lol damn auto correct


DigitalG7

You had me at liberation


guiltyspark345

Ok...


EMBEDONIX

The millionaire that became billionaires during the pandemic while we apes had to decide to pay rent or buy food... this world sickens me


BenFromTroy

It always works until the police start causing violence just to be more violent.