[an orange character is driving a bulldozer, facing a house]
I am going to bulldoze your house
[a yellow character is shocked]
[yellow asks politely, hands clasped]
Could you please not do that?
[orange, pushing the bulldozer’s controls, answers]
NO!
[yellow walks away from their house, looking dismayed]
Well, I guess I tried to do everything I could
Too bad
[orange smiles smugly as they bulldoze yellow’s house]
https://thebad.website/comic/respectable_resistance
The only way to stop a bulldozer is with a bigger bulldozer covered in concrete armor.
Comic fails to make a point, and is not funny. Cmon folks
Bit late to object now, the plans have been available in the planning office for the past nine months.
I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.
Better grab a towel
Tired strawman against nonviolent resistance which has proven effective in many many situations. There is no universally right or wrong tactic to resist. It depends completely on the circumstances.
Preaching non-violence is how conservatives have tricked millions to their deaths throughout history. They know non-violence is the hope of every normal person and they prey upon that hope. It is a deadly trick used to peacefully walk millions into gas chambers.
We have concentration camps now. Hegseth has fired 20% of the command staff to replace them with military leaders willing to kill civilians on U.S. soil. We are at the endgame for normal people right now. Stop trying to walk us into the camps peacefully.
We either finish Sherman’s work or we die at the hands of conservatives. There truly is no middle ground. Allowing pure evil to continue living at the “end” of the civil war has resulted in this situation. As long as they continue to live, conservatives will do absolutely everything in their power to exterminate the normal people. It’s not an illusion. Believe your eyes and ears and believe conservatives when they call us their enemy. They have loudly proclaimed their hate for us for over 100 years and we have turned the other cheek. They now have us at death’s door and are raising their rifle. Pretending peace will save us is a deadly mistake and is what they are hoping we will do.
Calls for peaceful solutions are deceptions designed to walk us to our deaths. Do not listen to the message of the enemy. Stand up and fucking fight.
It’s not strictly against nonviolent resistance though IMO. It’s against protests that don’t do anything. You can nonviolently do a blockade or sabotage something, or do a strike, etc.
Yah, this person commenting is avoiding the fact that their are ways to escalate without becoming violent with other people. They’re Kind of proving the comic right.
I suppose it could be taken either way. I agree with you that successful nonviolent resistance often involves more confrontational tactics.
I’m just tired of leftists acting as if the only reason we don’t have a better society is because people refuse to just start shooting. Reality is much more complex than this. But maybe the author was not making this exact argument.
its not like its going to matter. they are bulding an interstellar highway tomorrow.
I’m game! Let’s see who rusts first!
god damn, you were faster xD
but good thing I just washed me towels. :)
Counterpoint:
Didn’t that guy terrorize an entire town?
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Freedom fighter
freedom fighterWeird antisocial asshole.Seriously this was all over being told to pay to connect to the town sewer instead of pumping sewage into an irrigation ditch. This guy was just an asshole that decided to destroy his town because he couldn’t be a selfish fake-libertarian piece of shit and dump literal shit out in the open. The killdozer as an item is metal as fuck, but he died a pathetic shit-slinger who wrecked everyone else’s property and then blew his brains out to dodge accountability.
I am going to delete your post
Could you please not do that?
NO!
Well, I guess I tried to do everything I could.
Too bad :(
Fantastic
Is his name Arthur Dent?
Shouldn’t have ignored the notice in the back of the filing cabinet in the basement
I hope he brought his towel with him.
Homey didn’t know about the towel yet.
Is this about Israel?
Could be. It could also be about discourse, some people will condemn any form of protest that actually has impacts, and instead expect people to just do a peaceful protest that somehow uses magic and vibes to change the world
So what IDF is doing is good because it’s effective.
Seems to fit better with the US government trampling on their citizens rights, destroying every international diplomacy norm, accelerating the destruction of the environment, and all around being comical levels of evil. And the opposition has largely done nothing because they are trying maintain decorum and not upset corporate donors while being steamrolled by fascism.
That pacifist Indian guy (Ghandi?): (making Pikachu face)
Adding to what Bad said, Ghandi was the equivalent of, after the second panel, green getting a dozen people and standing in front of the bulldozer to force orange to either back off or kill you. Ghandi-style nonviolent takes guts and is not what’s being criticized here.
Gandhi built his movement on the back of centuries of violent anti-colonial resistance, in particular the HSRA campaigns which had proven british rule to be weak, and all the work done by Netaji before he was outed from the movement for his ties with nazi Germany (he was forgotten by history for being a bad person, but still played as big a role as Gandhi in India’s national liberation).
If Gandhi was born just 20 years earlier , he probably wouldn’t have made a difference at all. He arrived at the right time, when the empire was already crumbling from being sabotaged, and still reeling from the war. Like every other liberation movement, it was diversity of tactics that led to its success: the peaceful political force asking for change can only work if there’s a threat of ongoing violence in the background as long as their demands are not met.
Carrot and stick and all that. The peaceful protesters tend to be given a seat at the table sooner if the alternative is being killed by a car bomb.
