Yes. Pacifism would not work against, say, Stalin for example. Stalin would have sentenced Gandhi to seven years without mail and you would never hear from him again.
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Either way, my question’s obviously not gonna get answered, I surmise.
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sadly, i don’t think so. they aren’t that kind of veggie – they are the “let’s package bible stories in cutesy vegetable characters for children” types of veggies.
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I know. Pour butter on 'em all!
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I know, I read some of it already. Is she related to that clerk in Kentucky, I wonder?
And I can’t understand ANY woman who would work for Trump in any capacity. Geez, most of my working-outside-the-home jobs were for mini-versions of him, though I must say they had better hair and wardrobes.
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Here’s a series of six or seven articles on Gandhi’s Satyagraha, which Martin Luther King embraced and extended.
http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/bernard-e-harcourt-introduction-to-satyagraha/
The neologism satyagraha that Gandhi coined—the literal meaning of which is “to hold on to truth” or “to cling to truth” or “a tenacity in the pursuit of truth” (Gandhi #3, p. 6; Editor’s Notice, p. iii; Karuna Mantena; Bilgrami, “Gandhi, the Philosopher,” p.7)—refers to a personal ethic and self-transformation through which an individual remains true to his or her ideals of justice, and seeks to convince or convert others by working on him or herself and taking on the burden of the sufferings of injustice. The term is often simplified, in translation, to mean “non-violent resistance,” and at a practical level it is narrowly associated with the imperative of non-violence. But the concept has to be understood through the larger framework of an ethic or a faith that gives someone the strength to turn the suffering of injustice onto themselves. The resulting non-violence is not so much a practical maxim or a political strategy—although it is always political and strategic—so much as it is the necessary product of steadfastly staying true to one’s ethical or spiritual beliefs and the ethical imperative not to hurt others.
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Well these aren’t animated, but enjoy…
See how much of Psalty you can take. Yes, he is real.
I ain’t even gonna risk what remains of my sanity; those previews are enough for me.
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THAT. That-that-that-that-THAT!
Thank you SO MUCH. I thought I was some kind of freak.
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The thing is, there are at least 3 concepts of nonviolence. They can work together, like in the Salt March, but they can cause mutual confusion, or work against each other at times.
Gandhi’s concept tends to focus on persuasion either through example or through civil disobedience.
Then you have organized defiance, such as strikes and sit-ins. Under some circumstances, an opponents’ conscience helps, under others, it doesn’t matter, because they can’t weave cloth with bayonets.
Then you have any means other than violence, such as any of the above, but also everything from underground railroads to doxxing to property destruction.
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hey hey, y’all – official .gov transition website is live
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Maybe this will make up for fraudulent republican mailings that frighten people into not voting at all.
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[Edit] I’m just skimming through the filing, but one thing that jumped out at me… he has several headings about Georgia having a photo ID requirement for voting, and for absentee voting. But, when he actually starts talking about what the law says under both of those headings, it starts off talking about registering to vote and then part of the sentence is repeated with “when voting” replacing “when registering to vote”. It almost looks like someone realized the sentence didn’t actually back them up, and then screwed up an edit to “fix” things.
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Okay, I’m up for the class-action suit I’ve mentioned previously. The testimony ALONE would be staggering, if I could get enough people on board.
FAAAAAHCK, there’s one against him for something worse:
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IIRC, Texas ran things more “equitably.”
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It’s interesting that the suit makes it pretty clear that it’s assuming fairness involves square miles voting, rather than, say, people.
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