#passiveresistance — Public Fediverse posts

No ❤️
Up this hill, I will not go 😜

(Lusha)

This is.. lit. 10mins walk from home.

She gave me A Look™️ when I picked the longer trail, then when that didn't work, flopped dramatically in A Pointed Manner.

#DogsOfMastodon #LazyDog #LolNO #PassiveResistance

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Popular revolt against materially strong rulers, on the other hand, may engender an almost irresistible power even if it foregoes the use of violence in the face of materially vastly superior forces. To call this “passive resistance” is certainly an ironic idea; it is one of the most active and efficient ways of action ever devised, because it cannot be countered by fighting, where there may be defeat or victory, but only by mass slaughter in which even the victor is defeated, cheated of his prize, since nobody can rule over dead men.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Human Condition, Part 5, ch. 28 “Power and the Space of Appearance” (1958)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/81966/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #nonviolence #passiveresistance #power #resistance #revolt #revolution

Violence gives Trump exactly what he wants: pretext. A blank check for repression, surveillance and total control. It does not threaten his power. It authorizes it. Do not take the bait! #StateViolence #ManufacturedConsent #AuthoritarianPlaybook #ReichstagFire #PassiveResistance

Oddly, nothing about this in the newspapers (that I've found on a desultory Sunday morning trawl) - virtually every delivery cyclist in Dublin walked silently through the streets to Parnell Street yesterday, then convened on a block in Dominick Street where a stolen bike was showing up on its tracker. They got the bike back; no violence, no noise
#DeliveryCyclists #NonviolentAction #PassiveResistance #Ireland #Brazil
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/156poqk/ok_who_ordered_that_many_takeouts_in_this_weather/