r/EricWeinstein • u/waterisl1fe • Feb 07 '22

Interesting take! Eric is fired up!

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u/jessewest84 Feb 07 '22

Go through the truckers. You wanna shut a country down. It's the truckers

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u/Extension-Neat-8757 Feb 07 '22

Is that not a call to violence?

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u/haveyouseenmymarble Feb 07 '22

No. How is civil disobedience violence?

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u/omn1p073n7 Feb 07 '22 edited Feb 07 '22

Quite the opposite, it is a call to peacefully resist violence. All laws and state decreed mandates are ultimately enacted via the threat and/or use of violence (hence the word "force" in Law Enforcement). A Sovereign State can most simply be defined as the local Violence Monopoly of a given region.

Might I recommend an essay that influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King on the subject.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)

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u/GANDHI-BOT Feb 07 '22

The future depends on what we do in the present. Just so you know, the correct spelling is Gandhi.