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[@BeauoftheFifthColumn]

Spears link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWXbmX2QqNJ5f7ssi=7j4Sbdk0xApk22i9

[@jcreadore]

Thank you, Beau. 💙

[@LimeyRedneck]

😁

[@vforwombat9915]

sadly, that was not a link to Britney playing w knives.

[@BeauoftheFifthColumn]

​@vforwombat9915 "leave Britney alone!"

[@plantyfan]

This may be my favorite video of everything I've ever watched on this channel; this one has stuck with me because I like the hope, and the logic is sound. Everyone has a skill they can offer, even the "performative" ones. If the revolution will not be televised, it'll damn sure be on social media thanks to guerilla PR (even if they're entirely unaware of their role).

[@stephenanderson7686]

I am a merchant mariner. One of our ships is crewing up right now to prepare to deliver aid to GAZA. Ships don't crew up randomly. The college kid should know that we are, in fact, doing something positive for the folks there.

[@andrewrobinson1479]

Please stay safe out there and good luck. It's a heck of a thing that we're sending aid and bombs to and at the same folks.

[@casterman2]

Prayers! Thank you!

[@stacey5440]

Sending my very best wishes to you and your colleagues. Stay as safe as you can! Promise I'm calling, writing, voting, and donating stateside.

[@stacey5440]

@@andrewrobinson1479 The world is SO WEIRD. 💔

[@grmpEqweer]

I read that Israel is trying hard to twist Turkey's arm, and keep an aid vessel from leaving their port. The ship has multinational volunteers and 5,000 tons of aid.

[@shawnhenderson2091]

One thing I'm sick to death of is the media ALWAYS changing the conversation about protests to whether the protest is appropriate or overly disruptive rather than what the protest is about

[@UnashamedCaliforniagirl]

I don't like the fact that they are arresting protesters and the current Supreme court is perfectly fine with that.

[@robo5013]

You have a right to PEACEABLY assemble. If your assembly is disrupting other peoples rights to live their lives, access their education, etc., you are not peaceably assembling and then it is not appropriate no matter the reason for the assembly.

[@emperoremperor1486]

@@robo5013 If it doesn't and can be easily ignored then it will be.

[@FredEdeXIII]

​@@robo5013 So like, even at the end of the world? See how your priorities don't make sense?

[@sunstone1957]

@@robo5013 If 300 students went out in a field to protest in the middle of nowhere, nobody would give a shit. You would not hear about it. Politicians would not hear about it. MLK Jr shut down a fucking bridge. His marchers were beaten bloody by police. Yet today, he's a near mythological figure because of what he led people to so. We can be disruptive, like MLK, without being violent. And we need to be. We ARE being peaceful.

[@nancyseiler2844]

At 79 I’ve learned: know you are not fighting this war; you are fighting war itself. Know that and you will last longer.

[@johnboettcher1962]

War never changes.

[@declanjones8888]

​​@@johnboettcher1962 A man of culture I see. *Raises glass of NukaCola*

[@JR-pr8jb]

At 80: Every voice counts, no voice is in vain.

[@user-rz2fb8cw5f]

Yes ….. yes.

[@nancyrich7952]

Yes, at 81, I wish they were still focused on war itself. There are so many beyond Gaza…n

[@catharineshortt5848]

Don’t ever lose hope. I marched for or protested against the Vietnamese War, Equal Rights, Civil Rights, Nuclear Testing, Abortion Rights, Gay Rights, Climate Change, Police Brutality and more. Don’t give up, things are really getting better. You will save lives.

[@reneeparker7475]

I did as well. Look at how long it took us to help bring an end to the Vietnam War. Now we're protesting for our Equal and Abortion Rights to be restored and as for Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Climate Change, and an end to Police Brutality, we march on because we don't lose hope.

[@BrandyF2]

👍Respect✊

[@JR-pr8jb]

Yes, never stop protesting what you know is wrong.

[@cmckinney380]

Thank you for everything you did. Seriously.

[@laurie113]

Or in 2024 start to go backwards. Sad isn’t it.

[@TheSuzberry]

We worked for years to end the Vietnam war. Years not months. You keep doing what you need to do.

[@ironsausage808]

You do what you do because you believe in it. Did it end Vietnam? It sure as hell helped. It’s hard to measure but it certainly did help. I remember watching the occupy movement and had real hope.i thought it was the right thing at the right time. Well, it fizzled. But it was the right message and those folks involved were mostly correct. Point being, if you feel this is correct, then do it. If the movement fizzles there are other ways of effecting change. It takes work, time and commitment. Don’t give up. That’s what the bastards want you to do.

[@keithwinget6521]

@@ironsausage808 Messages are always sent and always received. If we know about it at all, that's what happened. As long as we don't forget; as long as we learn from what has been done before, it can never be thought of as a waste. It was the right thing to do, even if the right thing to do is just to learn what wont work as well and change tactics. I'd say all of these movements at the very least stand as a motivator for future change, regardless of how effective they were in their own time.

[@fred5399]

@@ironsausage808 Occupy was crushed but it most likely saved the union movement.W e are the 99%

[@ironsausage808]

Keith, you are correct indeed.

[@LabGoats]

​@@ironsausage808Occupy wasn't a total failure. Much of the sentiment and common phrases at the time like 'the 99%' are still in the zeitgeist.

[@kpokpojiji]

I'll go for the bite size fight. So far we've gotten 6 families with wounded children out of Gaza and to medical care. Working on a 7th. Every life we save is a universe.

[@bonniebrush94]

Congratulations on your work. Please be safe!

[@cherylb6755]

“Every life we save is a universe.” It sure as hell is. The cosmos thanks you. 🌌

[@almitrahopkins1873]

It is for the one you save, that’s for damned sure. Back when I was a corpsman, I had my chief and a chaplain lecture me that it was never about the ones you can’t save. Thinking about those will just tear you up inside. Focus on the ones you can. They were right. I only got the lecture because I beat the holy hell out of the chaplain that one replaced. The replacement was the one who pinned an upside-down cross on my collar and told me the story of behind the Cross of Saint Peter. He never went near my flight deck because he knew that if I had them, they weren’t dying. I still have that cross. The chaplain is probably long since dead, but I still have the cross and the lesson. Do what you can. Save the ones that you can. The ones that you can’t are in somebody else’s hands. Keep up the good work.

[@ultraviolet7838]

It makes a difference. You may not change decades of foreign policy, but you are saving lives.

[@TossGawd]

Damn who do you work with? I want to help.

[@TOOL_MARKS]

A Historical Reminder: At the beginning of the Vietnam war, 18-year olds were being drafted... But couldn't vote until they were 21. ("Old enough to die, but not old enough to vote") It wasn't until after the Vietnam war ended that voting was finally legalized for 18-year olds. It took a long time, but in the end, it was accomplished. Lesson: Don't give up. It's what they are counting on. 👈

[@dennisthemenace445]

I am part of the class of 69 and sorry I was able to vote AGAINST tricky dick so you are wrong about the right to vote at 18. I did. Vietnam ended in 75

[@JamesDavidWalley]

Incorrect. The 26th Amendment was ratified in 1971; the first national election in which 18-year-olds could vote was 1972. U.S. combat involvement in Vietnam ended in early 1973.

[@TOOL_MARKS]

@@JamesDavidWalley Cool.. Thank you for the correction !!

[@user-gi2sv2pf4y]

First USA service man to be killed in Vietnam was 1965.

[@stevehix1469]

Look at Civil Rights, Vietnam War Protests and Black Lives Matter, IT WILL ALWAYS TAKE TIME & SACRIFICES.

[@fred5399]

The 1954 Bus Boycott took over a year

[@dirtbagdeacon]

@@fred5399 And the Civil Rights Act wasn't signed until 1964. 10 years later.

[@wendelynanderson9517]

Ending apartheid in South Africa took decades. At the height of the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980’s it had become a world-wide movement & Mandela still wasn’t freed until 1990.

[@Adogslife54]

And look how quickly things are backsliding now. After fighting for years back in the 60s and 70s for abortion rights, lowering the voting age, affirmative action, etc. - the fight still isn’t over. Let’s add - Equal Rights Amendment introduced in 1972…still not ratified as a constitutional amendment. Unbelievable.

[@jamesc.lockwood3810]

You are correct, but I think it is incomplete. Civil Rights were won, but they were not kept. BLM was an a result of the the people who last in the 60s not giving up and finding new ways to destroy those gains. the result was Anti-wokeness (which is another word for inequality and teaching fiction), anti DEI because they don't want diversity, equity and inclusion, etc. The point is: after you win, you have to keep fighting. This does not have a deadline.

[@johnnyrockdog]

“Those who say it can’t be done, are usually interrupted by those doing it” - James Baldwin

[@LanaDell077]

Thank you!

[@deniseengle4269]

Mr. Baldwin is the voice for our time!

[@brianmccollaum5489]

“Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.” Albert Camus

[@gastonrobert1241]

How free is America I wonder

[@brianmccollaum5489]

@@gastonrobert1241”"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." Camus Freedom is not dependent on a nation state. It’s dependent on oneself.

[@krismodrow3993]

I love that, thanks for sharing!

[@laughingowl7896]

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility" - Freud

[@franbeier3587]

Expressing disagreement is a resposibility

[@sumame47]

I have been fighting for years for sensible gun laws. My daughter died in a mass murder in 2013. I speak up as much as possible and put my views out there for everyone. I've been called a lot of vile things. One person even hoped my daughter was enjoying herself "in Hell". I also marched in a BLM march after the death of George Floyd. There are other causes that I have a passion for and will until my dying day. Hopefully, my grandchildren will take up where I left off. You can't expect immediate change. Many people have their minds set and don't want any change. The two pictures in my mind are the female student kneeling next to a dead student at Kent State and the Chinese protester standing in front of a tank at Tiananmen Square.

[@agburanar5656]

One (Kent State) is held up by people in its country as a terrible idea (shooting at protestors, that is). But when it happened it was super effective at capturing "swing voters" for the people advocating for more of it. I really hope that doesn't give Trump enough votes...

[@micheleconner5083]

Yep. I remember both of those picturs,too. So sorry for the loss of your daughter. 🙏💜

[@dianamiller3307]

I'm so sorry about your baby. You're a remarkable person.

[@lisacockrell4606]

Look at what happened to Civil Rights leaders( MLK, John Lewis, Rosa Parks, and so many others). They were beaten, thrown in jail, got death threats, and so much more, but they kept going and fighting for their rights. That fight is still going on today. Step back when needed. But don't look completely away.

[@jamielivingston7765]

Dear white people, quit using MLK to suggest we should protest peacefully, you killed him too.

[@idmhead0160]

Yeah, and then John Lewis became a sellout, pathetic loser in the end, backing Biden.

[@brianpratt3224]

We kind of got here due to people not participating in our government.

[@TheSocratease]

@brianpratt3224 That part. Say it loud again for the people in the back.

[@roguecow9632]

💯

[@cmorris9494]

I blame the British.

[@Oldleftiehere]

You’ve said a mouthful here!

[@macnitt4039]

"Fine people on both sides"

[@lorriewatson7423]

We got pepper sprayed and knocked down for years protesting the Vietnam war; we kept getting back up. I have protested for environmental causes my entire life, I will never stop. It's just that important

[@johnpetry5321]

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Act justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

[@Jraijin]

I’ve heard this quote before… spoken by a senator I think… do you know the original person who made the quote?

[@karennichols6674]

It's from the Talmud.

[@johnpetry5321]

@karennichols6674 well, it's a quote from Micah 6:8 with commentary on it from the Pirke Avot 2:20 [Rabbi Targon translation], taken from a book entitled Wisdom of the Ages by Rabbi Rami Shapiro on page 41.

[@sidneylewis8728]

From the book of Micah.

[@sidneylewis8728]

Micah 6:8.

[@ShockerRadio-wi6ze]

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” M. Ghandi

[@Tustin2121]

Well, that’s good to know that we’re at the “they fight you” stage. Hopefully the winning will come soon then.🤞

[@mfv2024]

It took almost 40 years for women to gain suffrage! All change takes time and persistence.

[@TheSocratease]

Some women to gain suffrage.

[@jamesowensii2562]

And one former president, and his kkkult to end Roe... We have to stomp forward.

[@homerroad]

ok. But now the GQP and GOP are trying to go back in time....AND WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT FUCKERS.

[@LittleBlueOwl318]

Women couldn't even have a bank account of their own without the signature of their father or their husband until more than 50 years after they won the right to vote... let that sink in.

[@yt.personal.identification]

Ghandi skipoed a lot of meals before India gained independence.

[@jcreadore]

🎵🎶"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own, This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio...." 🎵🎶🥺😞

[@ryancalming884]

I gotta go stick this on the turntable now!

[@thelonesomefisherman7425]

I think it's time we stop children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down.

[@jcreadore]

​@@ryancalming884 💫💙💙💖

[@jcreadore]

​@thelonesomefisherman7425 And, this one. 🎶🎵💙💖💫

[@thelonesomefisherman7425]

@@jcreadore it seemed like an appropriate response to your O.P. 😊

[@mlgraney60]

After 40 years of political action, I'm struggling. One of my high school boyfriends was Iranian. Another was a Chilean exile. I remember the day Leterlier’s car was blown up. It seems like people new to protest have less awareness of US foreign policy history than ever before. The “Don't look away” rhetoric underscores this to me. I've felt like a voice in the wilderness. I appreciate Beau mentioning this. A thread of outrage within me keeps threatening to explode at people who call Biden “Genoc1de Joe”. Blaming Biden for centuries of US imperialism rocks my faith in activism. I support activism unequivocally, but when our own democracy is in such serious jeopardy and activists blame the best chance we've got at maintain that democracy for the fallout of a century of Middle Eastern power-mongering my respect flags.

[@presentfuture7563]

Thanks for articulating this point for me. I exhausted myself organizing rallies and actions against the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and also learned a LOT about U.S. foreign policy meddling in my 30s. These days I work on behalf of undocumented immigrants and refugees from areas mostly south of our border (although I did have both a Palestinian and a Ukrainian family recently) and celebrate the small victories. The absolutist tunnel vision upsets me too.

[@lauralafauve5520]

It's the persistent undermining of our educational system which is partially at fault. I keep hearing people talking about civics lessons in school. I can't remember any civics lessons.

[@davegaultier5283]

@@lauralafauve5520I’m 65 and don’t remember civics classes in high school and that was northern Michigan which was at least 15 years behind

[@geekcollage]

​@@lauralafauve5520frankly, I think we need remedial classes on civics in town centers across the country. Because the elders are quite often the ones ripping the future from their own descendants.

[@lauralafauve5520]

@@geekcollage definitely

[@essiebessie661]

Kids, now is a good time to talk to a few of us Boomers who protested Vietnam.

[@P-Mouse]

+

[@TheAprilanne]

So many of them are now the people voting for this carnage (not just this specific carnage either- all of it.) It's really hard to understand the shift.

[@neeleynonea]

​​​@@TheAprilannemost us that protested didn't change. Some of us have permanent physical disabilities from being thrown to the pavement. The ones that did not protest stayed the way they were. I think the ones who vote for carnage were not protesting anything

[@Chhesterification]

​@@neeleynoneaor they were just there for the girls/boys.

[@bobknull7502]

@@neeleynonea Well said. I still carry the scars. But you left out the ones who were protesting for the coolness of it and to get next to the women that they wanted. They didn't really change. They just stopped pretending. They remind me of Thom Harttmann's description of Libertarians.....He calls them "Republicans who want to smoke weed and get laid."

[@MarioJaker]

When you see a 20 minute vid on the main channel you know Beau’s about to cook

[@rosesims6103]

Right

[@yt.personal.identification]

I am here for it. Added to the "watch later" list, so I can find it in the future when I need it. Notice that although it is about something specific, it is also generic enough to fit many situations - past, present and future. When Beau is at his best. So clever.

[@macnitt4039]

Takes couple seconds to say Genocide Joes israeli support is wrong. 20 minutes to poke around tge edges. SmH

[@joelmattsson9353]

Even when you lose, the *degree* to which you lose can be measured in human lives. That makes losing worth it, too. Change is slow, but vast.

[@williamschlotterer9802]

With awareness and ability comes responsibility. I'm 70 years old. The first time I went to an anti-war demonstration was when I was 15. The last time I went to an anti-war demonstration I was 69. I have been a lifelong pacifist, and I will not be silenced.

[@judischarns4509]

For just a little perspective. It took more than 4 years of me actively protesting the Vietnam War before it ended. Others protested longer than I did. It took changing lots of minds before Congress and Nixon acted. We saved lives while many more lives were lost. It feels helpless for a long time. Did you ever hear the proverb about the little boy who was ridiculed by an adult who saw the big challenge of thousands of starfish stranded on the beach? The little boy continued throwing back starfish and saying it made a difference for that one, and that one, and that one. He did what he could. Do what you can but don’t get lost in the doing. You are saving lives, but it won’t seem like it for a long time. Thanks to all who care and reaching out in protest. You are saving lives.

[@chaosopher23]

Wasn't it really just the government that needed changing? The People almost never want war.

[@terrellkirkman2078]

I know it might not feel like it, but 6 months is not a long time. Unfortunately the Right has a history of keeping up the fight for long periods of time. It took them 50 years of nonstop protests, lawsuits, contacting and voting for lawmakers who wanted to end Roe for them to achieve it. Imagine what this country would be like if the Left had a similar track record on issues like universal health care, renewable energy, or bodily autonomy? We have to keep fighting!! No matter what.

[@mariag.8242]

We do have that track record. Yes, too many took their attention elsewhere, thinking voting rights or abortion rights were safe, but the work toward universal health care continues and is making progress, and massive efforts to restore the rights lost and enshrine them so they can’t be so easily stolen again are underway. LGBTQ+ rights are being expanded even as the people are being attacked by frightened bigots. The fight to protect the environment has been ongoing for over a century, and progress has been made.

[@jessehachey2732]

@@mariag.8242Well, judging on the hundreds of anti-trans bills weaving their way through legislatures across the US, and anti-trans laws passed in FL and TX, it’s clear trans people don’t have basic human rights….at least in Canada, we’ve CODIFIED trans rights…🤦🏼‍♂️🥴 Thankfully, because the hate from the US does spread to us to some degree, the uneducated rural bigots mostly, but it spreads. About time y’all do something to stop the hate and literal genocide and violence against trans people! 😢🤬

[@mrwizard5012]

50 years of suspiciously deepstate-like conspiracy you mean, with the aid of a lot of money.

[@dirtbagdeacon]

These people sound so....young. I remember feeling similar during the beginning of the Iraq War, when I was in college. This stuff doesn't change overnight. Keep calling your reps. Even better. Go into government. Run for office. Learn how the machine works so you can get inside and reconfigure it.

[@anna9072]

I was protesting the Vietnam war before I was in high school. Sometimes it really feels like you aren’t making a difference. But I look around, and things have changed for the better since then. But change isn’t linear. You can’t just say “oh, we’ve fixed it” and stop paying attention. Stay on it. Get involved. Know that every voice contributes to the whole. VOTE. If all you have to choose from is the lesser of two evils, get out and vote for that lesser evil, and get involved to try to make the next election a better selection of options. Sometimes you may have to take a break, but never give up.

[@dirtbagdeacon]

@@anna9072 I agree. Because the people who want to make the world worse have definitely been playing the long game.

[@redhotmoon1656]

​@@dirtbagdeaconthey've been plotting and slowly acting to turn things for decades.. that's what works. I just wish they'd use that power for good

[@raygunsforronnie847]

@@redhotmoon1656 You're spot on. This has been decades in the making. The current swing to the right started with Reagan and Gingrich and continued into the Bush II era. Look at official presidential photos and see who is standing in the back row. You'll see many of the same faces for that entire time span, shills for whomever's money was paying for them.

[@TheNiteinjail]

ALL protests are performative... The ones that change the world and the ones that don't are all performance. Pointing out that it's performative is not the problem you think it is. The kids were right about Vietnam and they're right about this. Beau is correct you don't have a choice. Silence is complicity

[@geekishgir]

Damn, this had me in tears. I worked for UNHCR and ran the medical services for a Vietnamese refugee camp in the 80s. The heartbreaking stories of the families who helped us and paid. Beau speaks to truth, I was going to go into details but I can't. I had trouble sleeping at nights

[@tgardenchicken1780]

hugs

[@TheNiteinjail]

Hugs 🤗

[@emom358]

Thank you ❤

[@jamesowensii2562]

Thank you, for everything.

[@user-bm7uu5mm5n]

Sending love and good vibes Thank you I hope you sleep well tonight & every night 🤗

[@ICountFrom0]

"I shaved my legs for this" ... I like her. She's going to go far.

[@krismodrow3993]

Meh...i don't care to hear this crap. Stop degrading women or we may never shave our legs again....ever!

[@josebrown5961]

Who Deana Carter? (The singer and songwriter of “Did I Shave My Legs For This)

[@ICountFrom0]

Yes. Deana and anybody who can quote her.

[@junglechick13]

I haven't shaved my legs for 45 years. You are either liked for who you are or you turn away.

[@ICountFrom0]

I might shave my legs for the feeling of smooth legs, but the itching... yha... no. So I can absolutely understand anybody else who don't want to shave.

[@siggybenedict-shields3883]

At 13 (1971) my parents kept me from going to a peace demonstration, so I started writing letters, articles for my school paper, and talking to people (I was shy, it was hard at first). Now at 66, looking back on most of my generation selling out, it was and is still worth it. The wars have changed, the victims haven’t. If you can reach one person, save one life, it’s worth it. It took me decades to understand that. Listen to Beau, take time out, don’t burn out. From the granddaughter of a 🇩🇪 resistance fighter against the Nazis: The goal is still NEVER AGAIN, but you probably won’t see it. Don’t give up, do what you can, celebrate each small victory. Help refugees.

[@Vulcanerd]

So... what Beau is telling us is that we need to adopt a baseball hitter's mentality. If we fail 7/10, but succeed, 3/10, we're amazing...

[@mushroom_thrillers]

I’m so old I remember when seat belt laws began and there was horrific rage and backlash. It would wrinkle clothes! It felt confining! I also remember when Mothers Against Drunk Drivers got started and were laughed at (didn’t everyone drive home drunk once in a while?). Please keep going. Maybe not in the same way with the same people, but please keep going.

[@jaynye4991]

You bet. I drove without them for many years, all over the country. And railed against them when they arrived. Now I use them, although it seems odd. We live and learn, but slowly, slowly.

[@the_phuckery_is_real7252]

You forgot the most important anti seatbelt reaction " I can't brake check my arguing children into the back of the bench seat." Lol as children our parents chose "rough ride " more often than the flailing hands smacking the sh*t out of whatever body part they could reach. I can laugh now but damn they were pissed about that seatbelt law. 😂😂

[@williamfrazier4797]

I’m 77, rejected religions when I was 14, joined the IWW at 19, moved to Canada and sent my draft board a thank you card when 20 and for 57 years have been bending the ears of anyone who will listen to me. I know I will not see what I’ve been going on about before I die but like you I believe that over time we will get the progress we hope for.

[@Mark.a.modern.world.wizard]

It's ok to take a break from activism. Come back to it when you're fresh & recharged.

[@Amigo21189]

Your strength is something you need to carry with you to accomplish the goal, and it needs maintaining along the way.

[@TheBonkleFox]

What if I'm almost never recharged? Like I'll think i'm ready to come back, but then I come back and I immediately lose all my will to fight?

[@xionkuriyama5697]

"Yeah, country's doing great." That hit hard.

[@SanyoKitty]

Why are people protesting this but didn't care when the children at the border were separated from their parents?

[@dreamcoyote]

@@SanyoKitty If you mean people who weren't upset and are about Palestine, ask them? A lot of people were upset at how children were treated at the border for numerous reasons.

[@laural6122]

@@SanyoKittyPeople were *horribly* upset by the kids at the border.

[@xionkuriyama5697]

​@@SanyoKittylisten i'm on the pragmatist side of things but yall arent exactly beating the "liberals make stuff up about leftists then finger wag about it" allegations with this one

[@ddemulling9722]

What people?

[@scanbu]

Beau, when you list the people who are "Doomers" you always leave a group out. The people who are genuinely malicious, who enjoy the suffering of others and do not want change. They want it to be worse. These people exist and are growing in numbers. I think we have to at least acknowledge them or we are defenseless against them

[@Burevix]

To clarify are we talking right wing people supporting Israel or trying to disrupt protests, or leftists with this attitude? Within leftist circles, the doomer groups worrying me are the accelerationists. As Beau has mentioned in past videos they have no idea what kind of hell would get unleashed if they got their wish.

[@CricketsBay]

Exactly. For certain rightwing nutjobs and their followers, the malice, the hatred, and the cruelty are the point.

[@redhotmoon1656]

I think we had one as a president a little bit ago 🤔

[@Burevix]

If they are actively malicious does that make them "Doomers" or just terrible people?

[@rachelb2464]

​@@redhotmoon1656nah scan is describing Bannon and some of the other high level officials trump choose. Trump was and is more about greed. Trump would absolutely use war to get rich but he would use whatever to make a buck including systems that are actually beneficial to other people. Bannon and his ilk are real life Ledger-Jokers, they want to watch the world burn.

[@Lamont1818]

How many death threats have you received for telling the truth!?

[@hattielankford4775]

That's a good question...

[@BeauoftheFifthColumn]

I don't keep count. But it's more than a few

[@hattielankford4775]

😬

[@josephrenn2149]

Keep on keeping on, Beau! Love your work ❤

[@Erin-Thor]

@@BeauoftheFifthColumn- I am so very sorry I ever shared your videos with my relatives Beau. I’ve never received such hateful emails from my FAMILY from anyone in my life ever. What you stand for, the simple considerate open minded principles… anyway, I’m so very sorry. I would bet money some of those emails are from a relative of mine. 😢

[@rogerwilco2]

"You don't have a choice". Wise words.

[@jacabi19]

The fact that Beau took his time on this makes us know that the fight is not in vain.

[@macnitt4039]

Who we fighting? Joes support of israel?

[@yzenynot]

As someone who's spoken out for over 50 years those protesting in good faith continue to give me hope. Think seven generations. It's always helped me.

[@OriginalWarwood]

If changing the world to the way you want was easy, someone else would have already done it

[@jaynye4991]

Hell, if it was easy I'd have done it.👍👍

[@CJusticeHappen21]

Remember that the Vietnam protests of 1965 were very effective in 1973. That's the thing about soft resistance. It's effects are real in effect but not real fast.

[@Duncaniowa17]

The Vietnam War ended after politicians saw many large Peaceful demonstrations all the time. 100,000 in San Francisco one time. 250,000 in New York. We had our own people to keep them peaceful. Violence would not convince most of the US. Peace did. Not with flowers, but standing strong , hundreds of us not allowing it. Including many Veterans. And yes, expect it to take years.

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

Veitnam ended after 20 years & only when there was no possible foreign policy advantage to be gained by its continuation. Your story is romantic, but domestic outrage was not the reason the Veitnam war ended. Nor did it extend the war, as a different commenter suggested.

[@robo5013]

The Veterans is what did it. No one really cares what college kids think, they are children with no experience. It was when the Vets, those that actually experienced it, began speaking out that people began to listen.

[@williamschlotterer9802]

Yup. KSU grad here.

[@illhaveanother8173]

The draft is why those protests happened. These kids look stupid for destroying their own future over social media clout.

[@DJDocsVideos]

That's the story you are telling yourself? Fact is it got too expensive to keep going. The Economy started to fail so the "good Capitalists" did what they do.

[@carolwarren2020]

We fought to stop the Vietnam war and stopped it through protest!!! Don’t give up! Thank you Beau! Thank you protesters!!! Keep writing to your representatives, keep protesting!!!

[@siddharthpandian7289]

Just looking at those kids and teachers protesting gives me hope for the future. Thanks for all the amazing work that you do beau

[@debbiemarieC]

I spoke with a Vietnam vet, told me hippies protesting were his heroes.

[@sharonmontag2389]

Why does Beau not have more subs. R people so afraid of his wisdom, honesty and compassion for we the people?

[@kevinmcconnell3641]

Why does Beau not have over 1m subscribers! Or maybe more like 10m subscribers!!

[@UnashamedCaliforniagirl]

People like content that doesn't make them think 🤔. Beau's content is for " thinkers".

[@jamesowensii2562]

Because, of we block those people, they'll never receive the messages. We have to leave it open, so if/when they see past the BS, they'll be able to catch up and hopefully fall in.

[@derkeheath5172]

Intelligence and nuance on social media = boooooring

[@josebrown5961]

You have to tell more people! When I found him I immediately told all of my friends I hooked them too. That’s all we can do.

[@yt.personal.identification]

The fight NEVER ends. You just persevere until you get to a point where you can fight for something else.

[@TempehLiberation]

Pessimism of the intellect, Optimism of the Will - Gramsci. This reminds me of something I heard in AA actually - "Don't quit before the miracle happens".

[@brucebennett5338]

Public protests are good, but if every single protester petitions their representatives directly, that's better. Do both.

[@carlyar5281]

YES!!! I have been apart of a number of campaigns to influence both my federal and provincial governments (I’m Canadian). The purpose of public protest and marches to gain attention and build support. On their own, they will not change a thing. Contacting your representative is vital. Send letters send emails protest outside of their office. Encourage others to write letters and send emails. Give them templates give them the tools. It has an impact. I’m currently doing this right now, coordinating with veterans across the country to keep pressure on a federal committee, and it’s working. They got the message loud and clear, because we inundated them with messages telling them this mattered and we were watching. If the message hadn’t got through, we were going to the media next. We did not need to go to the media this time, because we’ve been effective at gathering public support through media in the past. So now when we raise our voices, parliamentarians listen to us.

[@joshuaboudreau5258]

I think today's protesters need to look at the Vietnam protests and the Civil rights movement. It took YEARS to invoke change. Don't give up. You will prevail because you are right. It just takes time. Marathon, not a sprint.

[@Tini_Scrapitti]

When speed and Realpolitiks are not your friends, it is patience and endurance that you need to rely on.

[@Armaggedon185]

It’s not a matter of a break, we need to stop idiots from telling people it’s pointless. The fastest way to ensure there’s no change is to say that change is impossible. Why else are you here?

[@dlux703]

Change is actually the "only constant". The only thing we can define as reliable is that things WILL change.

[@donaldmrambojr5695]

I commend you Beau being aware in sending us messages "linked by a theme" by remaining positive, not giving up on hope & not being demoralized...

[@SandraRoberts-hg7cj]

The best news today is that college students follow Beau of the Fifth Column!

[@georgelayton6641]

It's because the performative is what the people of this nation have been taught to feed on. It catches the attention of the media because it will generate ratings.

[@markfeland2285]

Yep, that explains the cult of celebrity and proliferation of reality television. All about selling the image, it leaves people wide open to propaganda

[@tgardenchicken1780]

For anyone questioning if protests are worthwhile, watch footage from the protests from the 60's and 70's. See what was done and what was being fought for or against.

[@helenvillarreal9925]

A worthwhile series is "Eyes on the Prize".

[@tompedigo9246]

In Shawshank redemption everyone told Andy he was crazy for writing the state to get funds for a library. He kept at it and when they sent him what they thought was just enough to shut him up, he started sending two letters a week instead of one. It may sound crazy at first but once you keep doing it you will see results eventually, so don’t let other discourage you and you may encourage them.

[@TheSocratease]

We're still fighting for civil rights. The struggle is real.

[@katiehettinger7857]

Dear kids. As a person who demonstrated against Vietnam. The demonstrations were a legacy when I got to college. I understood the logic of why we were there and why we should leave. I lost friends in the war. Despite my family's military background, I came to see needed to leave and demonstrated. I sat with friends at my dorm as they cried and watched the last helicopter leave Saigon, because there families had not gotten out. We advocated for the two state solution at same time and I still do today. What ever the problem in the world you want to see change, people will say it won't, until it does. I won't stay fixed, but it can be changed for the better. You will be better, person value yourself and oddly be an engaged person throughout your life who makes a difference by participating now. Look at elders here in Beau's comments. We are working to make a better world. We're upbeat and wicked funny. We're proud to have you join us.Love yo all Beau's Peeps.😉👍💙🇺🇸🕊️

[@SiriusMined]

It's never pointless. The forces that oppose you WANT you to give up. Things will NEVER change unless people are willing to put in the work, again and again, even when it seems hopeless.

[@debrasmith4675]

Kudos and gratitude to every person who is playing the long tenacious game to create a livable world for all.

[@reviseandrise]

To many people in society are so used to getting things quickly, "food delivered, calls, texts, news, things explained to them 10 minutes or less" to the point where when they try to push for change, they feel defeated when it doesn't happen next Tuesday at 5 pm.

[@rogerwilco2]

Indeed. Politics moves slowly. Even when we don't have the time to move slowly. But without pressure there is no movement at all.

[@earthsystem]

And his point is this is NOT politics, which is policy negotiations in one single country. MORE COMPLICATED to alter momentum of Nation)States.

[@krismodrow3993]

Wow, this community is amazing. I feel blessed to have run across this channel several years ago. Thank you Beau and team for thought provoking, trustworthy content. I have grown to also love commenters and thier insights too! Thanks all! Thank you

[@queenvrook]

Rosa Parks kept her seat on the Montgomery bus in 1955. It took more than a year for the bus boycott to de-segregate the busses. But that did nothing for the lunch counters. It took 38,000 Federal troops to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1961. Medgar Evers was killed in 1963. There were race riots across the country in the summer of 1967, which became known as the Summer that America Burned. MLK was shot and killed in April 1968, and Bobby Kennedy 2 months later. And we are STILL fighting this! But nobody can say that we are in the same place we were in 1955. This is the kind of sustained effort, at risk to oneself, that is necessary for social change to occur. Without persistence, nothing will change, because those who hold unjust power are always very, very persistent in maintaining their position.

[@user-bm7uu5mm5n]

We have to keep fighting against hate! I don’t wonder if we’ll ever “arrive” it’s enough to know we’re still sooo far from the goal

[@sharonmassey2923]

Journalist, Chris Hedges paraphrasing French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre: "I don't fight fascists because I think I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists." And from anthropologist, Margaret Mead: "Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.”

[@craigrogers373]

I grew up in Apartheid South Africa. I watched it fall when no one thought it would. There were many reasons why it fell, one of them was demonstrations from students all over the world. Keep up the good fight. AMANDLA!!

[@brentmcwilliams4332]

See the small victories and derive hope from them. Summer Lee just won on a pro Palestinian platform in the district where the Tree of Life synagogue massacre happened. Candidate quality matters. Building the social infrastructure of peace is not a side hustle that you can do on a weekend. Where hope dies, the body mind and spirit are sure to follow. Don't let them steal your valuables like that.✌️

[@SimonePhoenix]

[standing ovation] 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@epenesajennings4725]

I was in college to get a degree. We had protests, we participated, we learned from our protests. I got my degree and work to keep my ideals through working to exercise choices by voting for what I feel is right. I was a radical back then, then I had a family…

[@shotasticv3dtours50]

1968 tet, Kent state, 1971 at 16 years old I went to DC to protest. 1973, draft ended, 1975 Vietnam War ended. I was idealistic but I never gave up or changed my hard-core attitude.

[@williamschlotterer9802]

I'm with you. We were at KSU at the same time.

[@junerussell6972]

Too many people seem to want things to happen immediately. "We marched but the President didn't do anything today about it." We've seen changes in how things are being done over the past months. It's not quick, but it is happening. And we need to look at today's "Roads with Beau" to understand how things happen.

[@gerri577]

biden has the power to stop this NOW. Reagan did it when isreal was carpet bombing lebanon -he called it a holocaust and made one phone call to the Isreali PM. The bombing stopped w/in 2 hours. We don't have the luxury of time in this matter. People in gaza are succumbing to malnutrition and disease. I blame Biden for his "iron clad" support and endless supply of missiles to israel. My role in this will be to withhold my vote to him.

[@thatjeff7550]

For folks saying that calling your congressmen does nothing, I would like to point you to a YT vid I saw just today on the Civil Rights Lawyer channel. A few months back, a Indiana cop with a chip on his shoulder got pissy with a high school student and arrested her for "obstruction" and "resisting arrest" because she, quote, "Didn't roll her window down" for him. For months, nothing came of this until the Dad, desperate to find SOME sort of justice, contacted this West Virginia lawyer on YT and told him his daughter's story. CRL pulled all the video footage he could get his hands on and showed his viewers what went down. Within 24 hours, Fort Wayne, IN had to shut down their various social media sites because they were inundated with people demanding that officer's HEAD on a platter. Within 48 hours, he was FIRED and the girl's false charges were dropped. So any time folks tell you complaining to your congressman doesn't do anything? You're just not yelling loud enough.

[@TheDonCheadle]

But they didn't contact their representative, they contacted the " Media".

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

Been watching this pop off. These kids are galvanized! Good luck to em.

[@LimeyRedneck]

The student protests in the US are being seen here and elsewhere!.. As well as the bad treatment by their institutions/ police!! There has been a change in general public opinion in many countries, in part due to people raising awareness: Marches, flyers, talking with colleagues, friends and family!! 💜

[@ComplacentOtter]

To every young person who went out and protested at their colleges, regardless of whether you were arrested or pepper sprayed or hurt in any way, thank you, you matter a fuckton and this country doesn't move forward without you. You are getting people to look at you and think harder about why you're out there. It IS working. You ARE making a difference. Pose for ALL the pictures. Thank you!

[@marypullin9865]

The current generation needs to understand this protesting takes time to make changes. Re-visit my generation’s struggle and the horrific chaos they experienced in SE Asia. 💔

[@vidarmors]

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all" Emily Dickinson

[@pohkeee]

Old hippy here…I never gave up hope for change or let my brain rot…but I am whole heartedly a pragmatically strategizing LONGTERM influencer…that’s an interpersonal communication approach. Finally, you always make your vote ensures that your vote will count the NEXT time.

[@lauralafauve5520]

I ended up homeschooling my daughter for health reasons. We don't live anywhere near where the civil war was fought. I found she and her friends were resistant about studying any of that. To bring it to where they could conceptualize it - When their grandmothers were born women weren't allowed to vote. When their grandmother's grandmothers were born there was still slavery. Imagining their grandmother having a grandmother, they could do that. It made the history seem more real. But, my word! What a long time we've all worked on these things! Seems to have taken about 100 years to go from slavery - only to get to Jim Crow! Things change. But they change heartbreakingly slowly at times.

[@anacisewski7703]

Amen!

[@aidenmartin6674]

The governor is calling them students but they are adults with full adult rights.

[@myst0dreamer]

Which is why some states are trying to raise the voting age

[@yt.personal.identification]

​@@myst0dreamer Link voting age to enlistment age and they will lose that appetite very quickly

[@arcanewyrm6295]

A "student" is simply someone who is receiving an education. There is no age limit.

[@myst0dreamer]

@@yt.personal.identification As someone here pointed out already, voting age used to be 21, but the age of the draft was 18 at the same time. So no, that will not stop them.

[@aidenmartin6674]

@@arcanewyrm6295 by pointing out and emphasizing that they are students that makes that piece of information of the most important point in the discussion about whether or not they can protest. People automatically think student = not adult.

[@susanne5803]

The majority of these students screaming their only pro Palestinian slogans and ignoring fully the complexity of the whole situation and the pain and sorrow and loss on so many sides - this majority fills me with fear.

[@brianmccollaum5489]

Does the slaughter in Gaza need to end in your opinion or not?

[@rockthevote398]

I look everyday and it's making me insane.....ending the Vietnam war and apartheid in South Africa both took years and persistence..... Freeing Palestine feels like there is so little time making it much more emotionally difficult. I'm old now, ancient but I'm so glad to see kids out protesting hard--it's beautiful--keep up the hard work and, meanwhile, I'll keep speaking out where I can, emailing my congress people and the prez.

[@judithmccrea2601]

April 1967. The Spring Mobilzation Against the War. Thousands of us marched. Across the entire country. And then we marched again. And again. And again. And eventually we were taken seriously. Probably after so many of us turned 21 and could vote. Keep protesting. It’s important. 😢

[@judithmccrea2601]

Thanks😊❤

[@patsummit131]

I encourage the authors of these messages to run for the office currently held by the politicians not doing anything productive about the situation. Even if you are primarying a fellow democrat. The incumbent politicians need that wake up call. We need many more progressives holding offices because that is where the actual power is.

[@glenchapman3899]

Ya know I am 62, and I can recall my father saying pretty much the same thing to me when I was a teenager. The best way to fix/break a system is to do it from the inside.

[@DaraelDraconis]

_Especially_ if you are primarying a fellow democrat. Running as an opposition party candidate (whether one of the Big Two or third-party) means that in most districts you aren't seriously competing for votes; the incumbent has an established core base who will vote for them based on party affiliation. Tactical voting in the general is something people do for good reason. Running in a primary is an excellent way to move the _local party position_ further left, even if you don't win (because the person who _does_ win will have to seriously consider whose votes they lost to you and how they can recapture them)

[@AlsInd]

take it from an activist who has been doing it since the 60's. actions you take are like seeds you spread. some will grow, some will remain and sometimes years later sprout. your concern is not if and how many plants make it or what comes of them. your job is to spread seeds. even when you "lose" you win because you have kept the message out there. sometimes when you win, it turns out to be a loss in the long run. history will determine the real success and failure. look at the long fight for women's rights. look at the long fight for indigenous people's rights. look at the long fight against slavery. study history. you will see that people cannot see the end when they are in the middle of it. all we can do is to live our principles and learn and grow and love and help one another. the rest is left for history 🙂

[@enricogattone432]

Love your comment

[@AlsInd]

@@enricogattone432 🙏

[@user-bm7uu5mm5n]

Yes. This

[@kayzyr9442]

What if the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention hadn’t been such a mess? What if Humphrey had become President instead of Nixon? Did the protests help bring about the Nixon debacle? Are today’s well-meaning protests leading us to the disaster that is Trump? Thoughts?

[@leotardbanshee]

It is such a fine sunny day Sophie, it is spring, and your white roses are blooming, right next to the poppy flowers, and we have been called to tend to them.

[@retriever19golden55]

That made me cry.

[@susanbradleyskov9179]

You find something that really means something to you, you allow yourself to get tired, disillusioned and even cynical once in a while. And like Beau says, take a break, breathe, be with people you care about and who care about you, then go back and keep fighting. There has been change, there will be change. Change is a constant. Try to make that change in a direction that supports life. Blessed be. ❤

[@jamesquinn8558]

Just what is Israel’s attitude toward Palestinians and vice versa? Does Bibi think all Palestinians are Hamas? Do all Palestinians think they are Hamas or Hamas are hero’s? Do all Palestinians support Hamas and or HATE Jews? Is anybody 100% right or is everybody kinda correct?

[@seandalai3413]

CNN posted a short video of children in Gaza responding to the college protests, saying "thank you" and "we love you". I hope the writer sees it.

[@instantimagination8163]

Do what you can, where you can, for as long as you can. And don't be too hard on yourself when you can't anymore.

[@brianmccollaum5489]

“All flee responsibility, the effort of being consistent or having an opinion of one's own, in order to take refuge in the parties or groups that will think for them, express their anger for them, and make their plans for them.” Albert Camus,

[@JMM33RanMA]

These messages are somewhat depressing. I'm in my seventies, I remember the anti-draft, anti-war and post Kent State Massacre and college closings. I was on campus at the time. The Marxist students attempting to use the situations to blow up the country not only failed, they caused a backfire. They did cost Johnson his reelection, the Vietnam War ended, and some social change occurred, but hard feelings created the eventual rise of the revanchist right that finally brought us the current Monarchist [formerly Republican] Party, corrupt ubercapitalism, Trump and Fascist Trumpism. Expecting total victory and being unable to consider compromise and evolution results in ruin. I am probably a little to the left of Bernie Sanders, but I am in fact a utilitarian [what is best is what works best] and a realist [not a phony Mearsheimer "realist" i.e. ideologue]. Violent change seems always to lead to violent reaction [q.v. French Revolution, Mexican Revolution, Russian Revolution]. What works is doing what has proven to be workable, and implementing change slowly enough to minimize problems [ALL problems can't be avoided, despite the dogma that insists otherwise]. This moderate approach is what has produced Scandinavian socialism, that doesn't wreck itself by trying to override human nature, totally destroy human desires and make everyone communist. The opposite side also makes the same mistake, unfettered, uncontrolled, unmonitored capitalism eventually destroys itself and possibly the parties and states that it infects. Beau understands this, and is much better than I am at making reality palatable to the impatient and well motivated but unnuanced demographic. Keep up the good work Beau!

[@Bcz4r]

awareness, visibility, more eyes on the problem lies hide in the dark, be a light that shines on the truth ❤

[@macnitt4039]

Joes support for irael...that it?

[@debwalters7188]

Keep talking. I am 68. I have helped the people no one else wanted to help since i was a teen. I am tired. I just retired. Thanks for saying we can look away for a beat. I am horrified. I live in NC. I feel like the grannies among us have to say what is real and support the kids who are trying to effect change to keep nations from committing genocide. I guess we have to keep talking, keep saying no, keep walking, keep joking about taking one for the team. So glad I found Beau years ago. Again, keep talking. But I just gave away the banned book tees I bought for my grands before I understood I might get them into real trouble. I am a child of the sixties watching the world go backwards and I am appalled. (However, If you want a giggle find the letter to the editor about Virginia Foxx suing a neighbor because a horse trespassed on her land.) This video lightened the load and changed my day. Thanks.

[@petosjr]

I noticed someone comment on a different of your videos saying the subject in that video was boring. There is so much value in what you try to tell us. We can tell you're sincere and we appreciate all the work you do just for us. You get us motivated and remind us how to think from a different perspective. Thank you.

[@Frostbite08]

If it was pointless, there'd be no reason for the pepper spray.

[@DMTalesTTRPG]

"You don’t have a choice.” Thank you so much.

[@DMTalesTTRPG]

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[@auntiebobbolink]

After 75 years of unimaginable suffering, the Palestinians haven't given up. 💐