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Ted Lemon

@hosford42 @ErikUden

And also I think we really really need to rejoice in our wins. A lot of really good stuff is happening. Just because a lot of bad stuff is also happening is not a reason to be discouraged.

A lot of effort is being expended to /get us/ to be discouraged. One of the ways we can make progress is to learn how to not be affected by those efforts—to see them for what they are, and laugh at them and at ourselves for our tendency to believe them.

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Ted Lemon

@hosford42 @ErikUden

We really need to approach this with kindness rather than hatred, because it's incredibly hard to stay positive if you feel like you have to spew negativity all the time, and if you act on that belief.

Ted Lemon

@hosford42 @ErikUden

Like, yeah, the rich old folks who don't want to have stranded assets in the form of oil fields are doing a lot of harm. We want them to stop doing that harm. We don't need to hate them to stop them. We just need to stop them.

Ted Lemon replied to Ted

@hosford42 @ErikUden

BTW, part of the point of getting involved in primaries (in the U.S., or the equivalent elsewhere) is that it scares the people in power more than protests do. Protests have as a second-order effect that they might motivate some people to vote differently. Voting differently is the actual threat—the protests aren't.

Ted Lemon replied to Ted

@hosford42 @ErikUden

What protests are great for is consciousness raising and community building, but there are lots of ways to do that besides protests that are less likely to get you arrested.

E.g., throw a party. Seriously.

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