The Suffragettes just straight up killed people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign
Carrie a Nation was part of the temperance movement and would destroy bars and saloons with a hatchet. At least thirty times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation
Lyudmila Pavlichenko didn't fuck around or cut corners. She shot fascists. Hundreds of them. Also, met Eleanor Roosevelt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko
The Night Witches dealt with fascists using the world's original stealth bombers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
Judith used a sword
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes
The Gulabi Gang beat rapists with sticks
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/4/gulabi-gang-indias-women-warriors
Kurdish Women in the Peshmerga fought and contributed to the destruction of ISIS. Front line, machine guns in hand.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/peshmerga-female-fighters-frontline-sideline
Harriet Tubman carried a gun and lead Union troops as a scout during the Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Scouting_and_the_Combahee_River_Raid
Feel free to add on and pass it around. There's like 180 million women in this country and we only need to radicalize thirty or forty thousand of them.
I get the impression most libs are so brain poisoned by West Wing that they've never actually considered the idea that the president can and should coerce people in to voting his agenda. Obviously the president doesn't want to, but all it would take is a phone call to the IRS and the DoJ to make some rich person's life miserable and he could get his votes.
I think Biden is both a useless dipshit, a reactionary dinosaur, and west wing brained, and the combination of those three elements in varying amounts means he doesn't have the chutzpah to actually coerce his "good friends" to do what they're told if they know what's good for him. The Dems... either they're completely, toothlessly incompetent, which is possible, or they're so ideologically brainwashed that they really don't believe the ends justify the means, or they're so isolated from normal people that they're not aware how close the country is to a breaking point, and how violently the GOP wants them all dead. Trying to make sense of their behavior is bizarre, given that the GOP conspired to have them all killed last year and they risk losing the legislative branch and executive branch forever. Which, like, fine, they get to be the permanent opposition, but they don't seem to understand that the Right views them as baby murdering cannibal demons and earnestly wants to kill them. They don't act like they think it's personal and will that they will be the targets of violence.
Not only is Manchin dirty - I bet his daughter is even worse. She's the reason Epipens are insanely expensive - just for starters.
I would add he certainly is ideologically brainwashed. He won't just cancel student debt in a simple fashion with an executive order - his brain is thoroughly ruined by ideology. If he does anything on that - it will be a confusing, idiotic mess with endless paperwork and loads of means testing. And I assume he actually thinks of cannabis as a "gateway drug". So an EO for that is an impossibility.
I felt so stupid last year when I finally realized the dems had begun starting to ignore that and with all their might pretending it didn't actually happen. They have world-class levels of denial. They seem to have no evolutionary instinct for self-preservation. It's shocking and fascinating.
I want to gleefully say I want the dems to lose ~80 seats in the house and a bunch of senate seats. But - of course - that's a new more horrible nightmare. The dems would flail around in total panic like a chicken without a head and then they'd make a huge lurch to the right in a moronic effort to stay alive.
Yeah. It's a great time for a revolution, it's just not gonna be our revolution. Which is very very bad.