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cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/97685
Originally Posted By
u/Northwest_ThrillsAt2025-04-07 01:34:57 PM| Source
We somehow need to explain to everyone who marched for George Floyd that brown Muslim Americans are being deported to El Salvadorian prisons without due process and subject to prison labour. Overt racist slavery is back, and we're far from outraged enough.
I'm so glad the George Floyd protests solved police brutality!
This is why protesting should only be treated as the initial rallying cry to garner support. Without the millions protesting willing to engage in direct action — like general strikes, permanent boycotts, etc — there will never be meaningful change.
honestly my state saw a lot of meaningful change out of it
Honestly actually thanks for this - doom scrolling late at night and feeling 0/10 hopeless.
Shit's bleak, but if there's legitimately nothing we can do about it we might as well lay on the railroad tracks, eh?
hey hey hey. we got 3 million people out to the protests last weekend. the republican house is getting stymied and criticism is rallying from all directions. trump's already running out of steam and we've barely begun fighting him
there are no functional railroads near me. I'm going to have to fly to get to them. fml.
I remember when Biden mocked the Defund the Police movement in his first SOTU, and then went on to accelerate the militarization of police. Now, we have cop cities.
At the end of the day, none of these people are going to vote differently than they have for decades, so nothing is going to change.
Coupling his Defund response with his backing of a far right wing genocide, and his absolute bed-defecation in the dem campaign for president, Biden is easily the worst dem president of my lifetime. And I'm not young. I hope history remembers him accurately.
but what about his brace leadership during the pandemic where he filled our hearts with hope by
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i guess we got a stimulus check?
Remember kids nonviolent protests does not mean you can’t annoy the shit out of the people you want to change things. Don’t make the ruling class uncomfortable and they won’t bother with listening to you.
Blocking traffic on the freeway is nonviolent
"Since the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, more than 100 incidents of hostile drivers ramming into activists have been documented. These assailants have included police officers, gun-toters, and even, in one instance, a Ku Klux Klan leader. Many, though not all, of these aggressors were charged under local statutes—but now, a growing number of Republican state lawmakers are trying to ensure that, in the future, such vehicular attacks get a pass."
https://slate.com/business/2021/04/drivers-hit-protesters-laws-florida-oklahoma-republicans.html
I have no idea why people go to American protests unarmed. Is it not clear enough that these fascists only understand violence and personal consequences?
If Florida ever goes open carry, I'll be there, on the intimidating side. We've shown again and again that liberals sporting rifles and shotguns is straight fascist repellent. Like any other predator, they will not engage in a fair fight.
let them have their pageants and protests. let them shout their words. let them push a little and get some pepper spray. let a few of them get arrested. they're young. they have their whole lives ahead of them. they're more afraid of us.