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I got this crazy idea: What if we could protest invasive policies the majority of people don't want enforced in a city without having an abusive dictator continuously escalate things, and indicate to other abusive pieces of shit there would be no consequences for this kind of behavior? What if we fired and criminally charged the asshole that shot this lady, and tried to encourage more cops to be like the only one that actually stopped to check on her to try and stop the bleeding?
I mean, nice idea but it’s never gonna happen. While everyone sits around and does nothing, they keep winning. This is the next 50 years. Get used to it.
Literally who is doing nothing? All these people in the street? The cop that stopped to check on her? The people trying to spread information when it's being actively suppressed?
I would say encouraging violence when you know damn well what the outcome will be with civilians going against an entire police force, ice agents, public military, and likely private mercenaries, is about the fastest way to escalate this and exactly what trump is hoping for
Yeah that’s doing nothing because nothing is going to change. Protesting doesn’t work. Just watch.
You sound like an expert in doing nothing.
They seem really skilled at stirring shit up.
Kinda wonder if these assholes that are shooting people, (especially the one that knew he was being filmed yet still turned, lifted his gun, looked at the camera like he was on the fucking office, and shot that reporter in the back like he wanted the whole world to know what he was doing), are hoping to achieve something similar.
So do you.
Berlin would disagree with you. Regardless, even if you want to believe that protesting will do nothing, Waco should be all the history you need to know about to know what actually happens in the scenario you're encouraging.
That was over 30 years ago, against one government agency, on a compound armed to the teeth, and with a president in power that actually cared about how something like that might look to the rest of the world.
What? Are you referring to Berlin prior to the Nazi takeover? There were leftist and fascist having all out battles in the streets of Berlin for over a decade prior to the takeover. Which eventually happened because the centerist of the weimar republic decided not to fight back.
You mean the event that led the federal government to be afraid of policing radical right winged politics for decades? The event that is often quoted as responsible to the free spread of right winged nationalism across America.....leading to the election of an ultra conservative president we tolerate today?
You have no idea what you are talking about, everything you said was wrong.
You really should educate yourself before trying to tell others what to think. Try reading the death of democracy by Benjamin Hett. It goes over the parralelles between the fall of weimar republic and our current situation.
What exactly do you think I’m encouraging, because a child abuse compound is not one of them.
Sigh... Yes let's pivot away from the actual point. How about MOVE in Philadelphia?
Telling people to arm themselves and go confront the literal army Trump has just sent to purposely exacerbate this situation because he's hoping for a confrontation that will allow him to claim there is an "insurrection"
Not to mention all the Red state Governors that are hoping they will be asked to prove their loyalty and send their own state national guard into California to help crack down on that "insurrection"
What could you possibly be encouraging 🤔
Start with the red state governors then.