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I don't know for sure because I didn't follow the timeline of events that well but this is usually true: the LA protests probably would have had no property damage too if the pigs hadn't attacked. LA pigs are some of the worst. Pigs hate seeing a bunch of anti racists standing together and are very likely to react violently.
DAE 
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You fool. You absolute maroon. Don't you realize the cops leave you alone if you just stand there quietly waving the flag? Don't you realize that the whole point of a protest is to make sure everyone understands you're totally okay with the state?
Pretty much a 
gathering.
The liberal doth protest too much, hmmmm could there be some insecurity about the democrat's lack of popularity? 
oh shit the protests were successful? umm that's because we must have been organizing them. like sure maybe leftists went but they can't have been organizing any or else it would have been an ineffectual riot with Fox News constantly decrying it and making supercuts of burning property. you know. because they didn't do that this time 👉👈🥺
We shot one of our protestors as a bystander while shooting and actively trying to murder another of 'our' protestors before working with the police to cover up the crime and smearing the victim as a "depraved and evil domestic terrorist" and a mass shooter, despite the video evidence to the contrary, but no one broke a bank window so... SUCCESS!
Libs will fucking murder you rather than see a bin set on fire and then pat themselves on the back.
These people are fucking morons. All successful protests have been disruptive. Did they not learn about Rosa Parks in school?
The paradigm we are taught is that if oppressed people are "deserving" enough and suffer to a sufficient degree our kind-hearted overlords will change things and "make them right." We are taught that liberation rests upon the goodness of our rulers and it is not up to us regular people to decide.
All they learned is that Rosa Parks was tired and sat on the bus, she got arrested. MLK had a speech in D.C, and racism was defeated.
Oh God, they'd be criticizing Rosa Parks if that had happened in this period
"Don't argue, just go to the back of the bus and later tell people, and let everyone know how it made you feel; doing it the way you did you've upset everyone and now no one knows what you were trying to do"
Success to lib protests is when cars drive by you standing on the sidewalk and honk in support.
Effective = got some media attention and looked nice while doing it. Oh, you think protests are supposed to affect how the government acts? Yeah, ok buddy, keep dreaming.
no property damage, but didn't some unarmed protester get shot by a "peacekeeper" at one of these for the crime of being near someone with a rifle the "peacekeeper" was shooting at? and there's that other incident of the armed chud wandering into the crowd and menacing people brazenly his gun drawn, with no consequences?
liberals: property damage is bad, traumatizing and murdering people is NBD.
It was even worse than that. A leftist protestor and regular fixture at actually organising events was open carrying as they always did and was their legal right. Two 'peacekeepers' designated by the 'protest' organisers took it upon themselves to murder him in cold blood as he simply walked along the street, gun not raised, no intimidation etc (despite them lying about that until the video came out). He was hit and ran for his life and in their efforts to finish the job the 'peacekeepers' then shot another totally uninvolved protesting bystander. The organisers and 'peacekeepers' then conspired with the police to smear the victim of their attempted murder as a mass shooter and domestic terrorist, getting him slapped with a murder charge for the bystander they shot dead. They've only backed off this smear and attack narrative now that video has come out showing what actually happened. But orgnanisers are still refusing to acknowledge it, while protecting the identities of the 'peacekeepers', refusing to answer questions, and deleting or drowning out questions or criticism across their various online platforms.
I didn't know there was a video.
They always make it so obvious that they value property damage over the lives of working class people, especially if they're not white
Not effective in defeating fascism, no.
Liberals achieved their goal of taking over and deescalating any actual potential leftism , which was their actual goal.
Liberals achieved their goal of taking over and deescalating any actual potential leftism
Saying this is a pretty strong indicator of Not Paying Attention Syndrome. What "potential leftism" was derailed by these protests?
The way people on Hexbear have been talking about 50501 and No Kings and stuff couldn't make it more obvious that they've simply never bothered to engage with them to any extent. It's a bunch of fart-sniffing online "leftists" who are too cool to go to where literally millions of people are in political motion because you imagine that their politics are gross and irredeemably bad.
I'm gonna write up a separate post admonishing all you losers instead of just you in this one comment.
What "potential leftism" was derailed by these protests?
By making sure the protests become a US patriotism parade with a focus on nonviolence and cooperation with the right-wing state. It tames any real escalation and just turns it into another Occupy Wall Street.
You seem to think I'm telling people to do nothing? Why? Is the only alternative to nothing to dress up like a slave owner and kiss US army ass?
I'm gonna write up a separate post admonishing all you losers instead of just you in this one comment.
ok
What “potential leftism” was derailed by these protests?
The anti-deportation protests that were crushed by the military had the potential to become another summer of uprisings.
Although of course the uprisings in 2020 weren't really "leftist" and were just an outpouring of outrage from the masses, and of course there is no organized left to lead the masses towards productive action, but the purpose of No Kings was certainly to help Trump prevent unrest.
Exactly this. Spontaneous, locally focused restistance to not just ICE raids but any militarised law enforcement was popping off organically with an increasing move towards organising local defense.
Then the libs come in with their Walmart & Democratic party sponsorship, turn it into a cop-friendly teaparty while actively harrassing actual organisers for things like Black Panther merch, wearing masks, or displaying keffiyehs (two of the organisers are dedicated zionists), drawing people away from the actual neighbourhoods that are in need of defense to their Instagram oppurtunities in city centres instead, before commiting to a coverup with the help of police after their armed designated 'peacekeepers' killed a protestor and tried to murder another before conspiring with law enforcement to smear him as a mass shooter and terrorist and pinning a murder charge on him.
I've been out there with these people since they started coming to the local protests my comrades and I started back in February. They absolutely have been deescalating any actual potential leftism because they give people the idea that the neolibs will swoop in and save the day rather than looking for a better solution to our billionaire beholden, two party farce of a democracy. I've been able to reach quite a few people by being a consistent, reliable person there but when indivisible rolls up trying to get people to vote for them rather than organizing their local communities, it's redirecting people's energy towards the wrong thing.
Saying we're a bunch of keyboard warriors that aren't out there hitting the pavement is almost the same as saying the 2A conservatives are the only ones with guns.
There may not have been any property damage but what about the thousands of patting-yourself-on-the-back injuries that were sustained?
That's no joke, patting yourself on the back can be fatal when you don't have a spine.
My lib parents are all about “optics” and remaining peaceful. They also loved some news article of a protester in Kansas with a John Brown sign that just says abolish ice. Libs have zero analysis. They have zero critical understanding of history. How are you going to celebrate the invoking of John Brown, a guy who famously beheaded slavers in Kansas and whose last boldest violent campaign probably led to the civil war and the emancipation of the slaves… and also claim that’s no place for violence?
