How do you handle going outside when there are random people in public, in stores, on the street, at work, who do not believe in vaccines?

Vaccines don’t need to be believed in, they’ve worked and will always work. If the number of these people is large enough to prevent herd immunity, then I do so oblivious to their absolute callous disregard for sick children and the elderly; I simply don’t know that they’re awful, shitty people who claim to be human beings, who could so very easily save the lives of these sick children, yet refuse to do so, really just because they can, and it makes them feel superior.

What do you say to anyone who has never had a vaccine and is in prime physique medical health?

Stop being a fucking carrier of deadly diseases.

as many many people pointed out, this was poor planning.

So fucking organize it better then.

Jesus this American shoulder-shrug-why-do-anything-if-it-isn’t-perfect is so frustrating to watch.

The thing is if everyone said “fantastic! This will be huge” and the actual protests are underwhelming, well that serves to confirm the false narrative that a very small minority of people are upset.

But nobody did, they just said “this day this time go protest in your capitol”.

The optics of pulling off a huge protest in only a week would have been amazing, but just impossible in the real world.

It was a protest across the entire country, and it can be done again, and again, and again.

Seriously do you guys even need opponents? You just give up and convince each other to not do anything unless it’s perfect and then sit back and watch your neighbours get put in camps, declaring that you sure don’t agree with those actions.

Apologies I made another comment in a virtually identical exchange where I mentioned strikes.

To be clear: Protests -> Strikes -> Sympathy Strikes -> General Strikes.

That’s how you beat fascism. As soon as people push back at their money base they crumble. If people let them do what they want they keep pushing for more and more until stopped.

I didn’t realize police stopped shooting black people.

Dude that’s totally disingenuous and you know it. Protests/strikes aren’t fucking fairy magic. They show people in power what the people in general think of something. The more people do these things the more it’s clear to those in power what will play out and what won’t.

If americans, say, went out en masse and started protesting, striking, blocking day-to-day life from happening, in response to putting people in concentration camps, capitalists would put a lot of pressure on the fascists to step the fuck back. Then people could, I dunno, realise they can’t passive-resistence their way out of this and started fighting the fascists, this would be over extremely quickly.

Fascism requires you do one of two things: Help them, or don’t resist them. If you resist it becomes too hard for such a small number of people to succeed against a massive amount of people constantly defying them.

The Women’s March on January 21, 2017 was one of the biggest protests in US History.

I didn’t say protest, I said strike. They are not the same thing. Protests require Centrists and ‘moderates’ to care enough to join them. Strikes are meant to directly impact Capitalism. Going to marches every night for a week doesn’t hurt business owners, but a week of strikes loses them money in a big way. With sympathy strikes you can get the capitalists fighting each other. With a General Strike all of the lines-go-downward and they’ll freak out.

Until masses are seriously prepared to get violent, we are fucked.

Guess which step precedes that?

Get the fuck out in the streets, prevent cars from getting places, block entrances, cause consumers to avoid places, then they’ll start paying attention.

God it’s so fucking frustrating watching your older brother whining there’s nothing they can do when there are provable things they’ve done in the fucking past that have worked.

Look at the Pullman Strike. Seventy people were killed by cops/military, the strikers still won and it was a massive, historical win for American labour laws.

Jesus Christ I don’t think I’ve ever seen a posts comments so full of reasons this won’t work.

You guys don’t even need your media to dissuade you, you just convince each other not to do anything.

I’m so sorry you’ve lost him. Thank you for sharing your love of him with us <3

A large amount of people have gone through terrible things, and many, if not most, end up feeling forced to do terrible things. Yet in the end they were people, and his acts of goodness were towards you. Cherish that even in a world set to do everything it could to make him into something else, he chose to be your loving brother. He was a good person in a bad place.

It was my pleasure to share. I wish you the best, and if you need someone, please reach out <3

My brother wasn’t a good person either, at least not most of the time. He always, always made me feel safe though. I never got to tell him how much he meant to me, and he never got to see his nieces and nephews.

I’m glad you feel less alone, and myself, and likely others in your life, are here for you <3

It’s a couple months to the 4th anniversary of my brother’s suicide. I’m so sorry for what you’re going through. I hope you’re able to still talk to him, as much as any of us can. There are people there for you if you need them, though you may have to look for them.

All my love.

franchise /frăn′chīz″/ noun, plural franchises

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• a series of related works (such as novels or films) each of which includes the same characters or different characters that are understood to exist and interact in the same fictional universe with characters from the other works

I’m not seeing how ‘a franchise ending’ is oxymoronic.