• Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      10 months ago

      They don’t.

      If I were to non-violently withhold taxes to protest this genocide, the government would violently drag me into prison.

      Non-violent people only have power if there are violent people backing them up.

      It’s not like the guards who walked Ruby Bridges into school were armed with stern faces.