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~20 hours ago I wrote…

I’m really shocked they didn’t cave [within the first week or two]. I was nearly 100% certain they would.

I’ll work on my Nostradamus more.

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    13 days ago

    mmmm sopapilla

    is there anything that says letters and calls specifically influenced decisions? I would have thought the physical protests and even the wikipedia blackout would be much larger factors

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      14 days ago

      i’m not sure how possible to know that is. i do know that liberal in-person protesting has never accomplished anything without a lingering threat of violence, and that the dinosaurs in congress don’t know what wikipedia or the internet are.

      • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Yeah I guess actual hard evidence wouldn’t exsist I was thinking like a statement from a politician like ‘the amount of calls my office received from citizens on X issue made me revaluate my stance on it’

        Err are you saying calls and letters are only effective if the include threats of violence?

        • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Err are you saying calls and letters are only effective if the include threats of violence?

          no i mean like why the 1960s civil rights movement worked (for a few decades anyway) but shit like no kings, occupy wallstreet, or the 2000s anti-war protests in the US didn’t do anything