Devil's advocate, I guess: The actual point of the speech was that maybe now that their lives had been directly endangered and they'd felt helpless they could empathize with the refugees This argument is only possible with Karli having successfully threatened their liveshttps://twitter.com/loudpenitent/status/1385678974542438401 …
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The refugees only get to stay because of Karli Whatever appeal to humanity and empathy Sam's speech may have made it only worked because they got the shit scared out of them first
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This is honestly standard analysis Extremists don't "succeed" directly and immediately, the terrorist rarely gets elected president But what success their moderate and civil counterparts have is because of them They provide the stick and the moderate provides the carrot
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FDR comes to power because people look at actual Marxist uprisings in the rest of the world and go "Well I'd rather have some bleeding heart socdem raising the min wage than have Lenin"
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Coretta Scott King telling the story of Malcolm X literally coming up to her and saying "Look, we're not enemies I'm just here to remind white folks who don't like your husband what the other option is"
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Indeed, and it's a very interesting take. But I mean the MCU has done this before; Black Panther even had Eric's efforts help to persuade T'Challa to open up Wakandan aid to the world.
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