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And yet, as with any disease, outlook depends on many factors. The number of cells in the immune system that recognize an infection, for example, can radically alter its progression.

A sudden widespread immune response may be all that can save the organism following an initial exposure, but often a more targeted, adaptive, and coordinated immune response is possible later. It mostly depends on how much of the body recognizes the infection and does its part to block its spread.

This judge had a particularly crucial part and played it to a T~h~.

It takes a hell of a lot more courage to hold the line with your comrades, like this judge did by laying the groundwork needed for their future victory, than it does to

1. abandon them because “waving signs and impotent chanting never made a difference,”
2. take long looks in your mirror to “ask yourself how far you’re willing to go” because “no one is going to save you,”
3. tell all the comrades currently fighting for your rights that they “should leave” if they’re not willing to be more “outwardly aggressive,” or
4. otherwise pose for all the other terrified edge lords on here who dismiss activists, predict defeat, lionize fascists, and imply that they’re prepping to do what’s actually necessary to “fix this.”

It's going to take a collectively outwardly aggressive movement, in the spirit of the armed Black Panther party.

You are emphasizing the aggressive portion of it, but I think Americans still need work on the collectively. "Get armed or get out" isn't going to get you far in building a movement. For example, if Alex Pretti was alone and not recorded by a mass of other non-violent protestors at the time of his gang murder by ICE, the propaganda that Pretti was looking to shoot them first would stick a lot longer. Gun for gun, ICE's budget for weapons per agent is a lot larger than even the most kitted out Black Panther. It's already stupid the amount of weapons they have stockpiled against peaceful protest. If violence becomes the only way to win as you believe, ICE will put out a purchase order for a few LRADs or other "less-lethal" technologies that will make it hard for organized armed resistance to hold a gun straight. And further, at the first sign the administration can muster up a flimsy excuse to do a "MOVE bombing", they certainly will.

Elections are state level, and while the fascists and gestapos are trying over and over to take it over from the states, so far it's not working out. The MN boycott and national day of action happened last month and I don't think they are saying "mission accomplished, we don't need to do anything else" in response to 2000 of 3000 federal thugs sticking around. Various other groups are also organizing, like the supporters of Haitian refugees in Ohio, who will use these moments to organize and over the next few months become part of a national resistance network. Then there will be more options for aggressive and non-aggressive tactics.