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   Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 18:44:51 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

   First they came for the Communists
   And I did not speak out
   Because I was not a Communist
   Then they came for the Socialists
   And I did not speak out
   Because I was not a Socialist
   Then they came for the trade unionists
   And I did not speak out
   Because I was not a trade unionist
   Then they came for the Jews
   And I did not speak out
   Because I was not a Jew
   Then they came for me
   And there was no one left
   To speak out for me

   -- Pastor Martin Niemöller

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 18:46:19 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

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     I know, many people know the Niemöller poem, and posting it may even feel tired, like a trope

     But times like this, there are reasons to remember why the words have power, why they originally resonated with you

     There will not be much time left to speak up, at this rate.

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     (((Baslow))) (baslow@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 19:13:32 JST (((Baslow)))

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     @cwebber I believe that we now live in a world where "speaking up" is so cheap and so easy that "speaking up" - a symbolic act - no longer poses the threat it once did. As long as we don't have the will or the concentration or the coherence to organize, to coordinate persistent actions in a way that will significantly disrupt the way the world works, the powers that be are happy to have us "speak up"
     #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 20:45:43 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     @cwebber

     Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 repeated this.
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     rexi (rexi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 20:46:06 JST rexi

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     @cwebber

     can we have this *not* be a timeless hit?

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     Pēteris Krišjānis (peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:11:37 JST Pēteris Krišjānis

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     • Daphne Preston-Kendal

     @dpk @cwebber I am this vibe last three months

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     Pavel Machek (pavel@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 00:06:55 JST Pavel Machek

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     @cwebber for the record, communists are as bad as nazis. Talk to someone from eastern block.
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     John Abbe (aka Slow) (slowenough@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 16:31:32 JST John Abbe (aka Slow)

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     @cwebber Indeed. White House report on invoking the Insurrection Act is due out this weekend. https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what-to-do-if-the-insurrection-act-is-invoked/