i am absolutely going to go batshit hearing people say that social change is achieved by being "reasonable" when the entirety of history shows that change happens when you make the lives of people in power utterly miserable and just generally be a loud asshole

— Colin Spacetwinks (@spacetwinks) November 16, 2019

True. Real social and political change occurs for these two reasons:

1) Fucking shit up.

2) A credible threat of fucking shit up.

Or, to return to the old chestnut from Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.”

Even if you don’t think it’s true, it’s still true.