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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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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That's probably why they specifically showed the GRC was ready to resume deportations full tilt if not stronger after their rescue but before Sam's speech, like this absolutely could've just as easily ended in reprisals and indeed kinda did for the 4 surviving Flagsmashers
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