WeirdGoesPro
In my opinion, the people in LA are human and normal—opposing oppressors is one of the most natural reactions any animal can have.
I hear the spirit of what you’re saying, and don’t oppose it with any venom, but I also think that it would take a smaller number of privileged liberals getting shot with rubber bullets to create massive outrage than revolutionary leftists. It will be cool if things can work with just a warning dire warning of numbers, but it will also be incredibly useful to the cause if the cops fuck this one up.
I don’t say this lightly, my own mother will be there and I would never want her to be hurt, but I also know how much it would motivate her bourgeois friends if she experienced even a waft of teargas. Much like republicans, centrists are most strongly motivated when circumstances hit them directly.
Of course, it’s literally the least I can do. The only other option is to do nothing, and that is unacceptable, in my book.
Not today, Satan.
I will be exceedingly disappointed if it is another inert collection of liberals who are only there to pat themselves on the back and get shots for the gram like the women’s march was. LA should be the example, not the cautionary tale. Make these bastards feel it, and don’t make it easy.
“US shows itself if there is anything worth saving.”
They will when I keep booking the most expensive handymen in town.
Thank you for elaborating. I understand your position better now. To be honest, you sound a lot like my mom does.
I too wish we lived in a world where violent resistance wasn’t necessary, and the powerful people who control us would listen to peaceful activism. That, unfortunately, is an ideal and not our current reality.
In the absence of that, I desire a world where people are brave enough to take risks for what is right, and who aren’t handcuffed by their principles when the times call for action. The protestors who are out there right now are, by and large, those types of people: patriots who are willing to do what is necessary now so your children might be able to achieve the ideal you’ve described later.
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Nothing wrong with talking about or looking at the dark side, but that was not how your comment came across. It came across as a “both sides” argument that simply does not hold water.
It’s like saying the confederates and the union both killed people, so they are both bad, completely ignoring that one side was fighting to deny rights to a whole race of people. Both sides are not the same here. The far right are in the wrong, and the only language they seem to understand is brute force.
Any person or group who uses their life to pursue injustice towards others for their race, religion, gender, orientation, or personal identity deserve to rot in hell. Those who send them there or work to slow them down deserve a medal and a thank you.
No one has cake now. They must have eaten it all.