Mongrel
Begging for Scraps
For Bruce Springsteen I think it's fairer to say that he started in the 70's and just never stopped, especially with Born in the USA being one of the iconic albums of the 80's
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So what form does the resistance take?
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IIRC, Bruce is fourth on the list of artist's album numbers on Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time list, behind the Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.
It's not as if Joan Baez just vanished, but her popularity waned considerably in the Reagan '80s, but her commitment to the resistance has been pretty consistent.
It's a pity she didn't join in on Bette Midler's version of Woody Guthrie's All You Fascists Bound to Lose.
It's a pity she didn't join in on Bette Midler's version of Woody Guthrie's All You Fascists Bound to Lose.
Tero
Philosopher
We have a no kings protest, but I have gone to several and somehow I have nothing more to say. I can barely put together a small poster.
And the boat is going nowhere!
EHocking
Penultimate Amazing
AI will have progressed our boat propulsion systems by now
Tero
Philosopher
One of our 2 Trumps. With crown.
P.J. Denyer
Penultimate Amazing
Oh look, he's dressed as a doctor!
5:14–> Progress does not always happen quickly.
It's not always easy. And sometimes it's not pretty.
Sometimes it can feel like your small acts of courage, maybe they don't matter? But they do.
If history shows us nothing else, it is that change does not happen because the government gives us permission.
Change does not happen because some politician decides that it was time. Change happens when we, the people, say so.
9:20–> The four factors that need to be there, and many of them are kicking into place:
The first is that the protest has to be diverse. And they have to be invested over time. And as the protests grow, you're actually seeing that.
The second is you have to have defections from from power. In the Philippines, for example, in the 1986 People Power Revolt that began the end of history, according to Francis Bucayama, right? That made democracy seem unstoppable. It was the defection of the military commander.The president ordered the commander to shoot into the crowd, and they refused. And that triggered the end of almost 21 years of our dictator.
The third is that the people who are out there have to go beyond protests.
And then the last one is kind of like a kind of commitment that discipline, a commitment to nonviolence.
And what's fascinating about today's protests is that it has actually moved beyond protesting, right? Because ultimately, protests alone aren't enough.
And even if 12 million people are reached, that's the 3.5 percent in America, change still isn't guaranteed. Because building a strong community is like going to the gym. You build this as a muscle and sorry to tell you that Americans are sometimes too complacent, right?
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