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Protesters blockade Palantir offices over tech firm’s ‘totalitarian’ work with ICE
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Now do demolition.
I think that you might not get to claim the mantle of peaceful protest when you start blowing things up yourself.
Someone missed the news?
Cops have been blowing people’s home for decades.
And it’s US constitutionally agreed upon.
Unless you forgot what the theatrics of protest are for, I'm not so sure what's your point here.
This article is about protests that were (arguably) largely peaceful, and I presume that was intentional on the part of the organizers. I doubt that they would be interested in dropping the mantle of peaceful protest in order to gain license to start blowing up buildings. I could be wrong about that, though. Certainly no one here seems to be interested in peaceful protest.
When peaceful negotiations breakdown between capitalists killing people overseas, to bombing homes of people peacefully protesting your violence, there’s only one language that communicates genociders to cease. And it's not another protest.
fyi demolition doesn't require explosives to eradicate invasive tools of the bourgeoisie. Read up history on how to get rid of intolerant elites.
So the ultimate point was to criticize these people for merely engaging in another protest rather than doing something effective?
This reply reads as if you are not aware the point of protest.
The protest here have proven their point: the fascist state of the US defends invasive corporations like Palantir Technologies Inc. to bomb civilians domestically and abroad.
Do you want genocide in the US?
So you are arguing that the optimal strategy is to do one protest to make your point about the state, and then start unleashing violence?
Ok. Thank you for admitting you don't comprehend the point of protests.
Until you learn how dictators have been stripped from their violence historically, I have no further use to engage your bad faith view of demolition.
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You just linked to a play in order to make your point. That is pretty consistent with you living in a world of fantasy, I must say.
If you think that demolishing a building is the best course of action at this time then so be it, but don't act like I am the one with a bad faith view because you insist on calling it a peaceful act, and I am merely pointing it out.
Demolition of facist tools of invasion of privacy is literally what this community is about. “Abolition” if you require a synonym.
Thank you for not removing your beam from the ICE course of violence.
I do not think that it is within the power of these particular protestors to "abolish" anything, so saying they should do that next seems a bit silly.
Where did I ever say that their course of violence was not bad? That is a projection on your part. You are arguing with an invented fantasy version of me rather than the person that actually exists.
But hey, let me help you out a bit. If you think that violence is necessary, then I would actually strongly recommend reading the Bhagavad Gita because it has you covered, as it is basically all about a god (Lord Krishna) trying to convince a man (Arjuna) not to abandon a battle on both the physical and spiritual plain. Lots of verses are relevant, but to limit myself to a few (2:31-33):