Thanks Aaron, it's a message that those in the "I'm only voting for perfect candidates with whom I'm in 100% agreement" need to hear. Of course it won't help 😂😂😂 but maybe, just maybe...
Then how come your universities are sending in the cops to arrest professors? How come there’s snipers on the rooftops? How come anyone opposed to aiding and abetting an ongoing genocide is being brutalised? Where’s your freedom buddy?
but you recognise that things are already bad right? sending riot cops to peaceful protestors still registers as a bad thing, even when its libs doing it right?
Ok but the standard you would use to describe the us as authoritarian would also apply to almost every other nation on earth, so the usefulness of the term is lost
things in the US are not bad. I completely support protesters using their voices to try to shape US foreign policy. but the idea that we're living in some sort of authoritarian society is ridiculous. that could change quick if Trump returns to power though.
Legislation banning women's rights and trans rights, people dying because they can't afford health care, a president sending billions to support genocide... If that's not bad, then exactly what is? 2/2
Not bad?? *stares in European* you have little kids say the play of allegiance - big fascist 🚩🚩right there -, children doing active school shooting drills because schools are often targeted by mass murderers. But that wasn't bad enough so now you have legislation banning books, freedom of speech 1/2
Things are extremely fucking bad in the police state hellhole where cops beat up protestors every time and then the president denounces the protestors and calls for more cop beatings to be administered.
The US government is overseeing the beating & punishment of your nation’s youth on campuses across the country in order to quash resistance to the funding of/complicity in a genocide. Sure things can get worse but let’s not pretend that this is in any way an indicator of a healthy democracy
Well, what do you expect? Useful idiots are protesting against what they believe is „authoritarian“, and that way are helping ACTUAL authoritarian dictatorships destabilize democracies. Actual authoritarian dictatorships send protesters to prison labor camps in order to have them perish there.
The said useful idiots pretend that if you don’t agree with them and don’t celebrate everything they do, you must ipso facto be a nazi - or worse. Whereas those who benefit from their actions must be the innocent oppressed masses, yearning to be lead into revolution against The System.
Yes , another Trump administration will stop all rights to protest , so maybe those blaming Biden should face what a Trump future would be . Get real people
If this is what passes for “lawful protesting” in your head, I’m not sure I want to know what you think counts as the state enacting violence to suppress protests.
Shockingly, you can hate Trump and still point out that you don’t need to compare this objectively awful shit being done under Biden to “well Trump would be worse.” That’s not a defense of what Biden is allowing. That’s a deflection
i do not buy the doomerist view that living in the US in 2024 is a bad state of affairs. opinions may vary. protesters have been getting arrested since the dawn of the republic.
My first protest (Rodney King protests before the rioting began) started with a lecture from seasoned vets on what to do when arrested. Most I've attended since then have included similar advice, with amendments for advances in technology.
Yes. We e look back at a lot of that as shameful, yeah? We do, as you referred to, have an authoritarian movement on the rise. Would it not be a blow to that movement to de-normalize authoritarian tactics, and also make it harder for them to normalize brutally policing dissent? Constitutionality?
I know what I'm talking about. The fact that it's worse in a lot of other places doesn't obviate the fact that retaliation against protesters here routinely ruins lives.
Mmm very clever use of "lawful". The cowards way out of having any real argument about protesting that any police force can immediately declare unlawful for no reason. The ultimate impossible to critique stance, very brave.
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Maybe the president could respond to that by having all the police shot, but the mayor can't.
BOOTLICKER parades.
PRO-GENOCIDE parades.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/professor-emory-university-arrest-protest-b2536574.html
Somehow the person with as much power as…anyone on the planet has no agency and responsibility?
The Democrats: can only be failed, cannot fail.
Because I scrolled back 2 months and it seems to be 100% about Trump, multiple times a day
The only time you even address Palestine is to say "Trump would be worse on this"
Like, people can try to deny that, but it makes them look like fools or liars.
It's disingenuous and lacks real integrity. Period.
Agree 100%, if Trump gets what he wants, it will be much worse.
This is still a real bad state of affairs, if you're going by Constitutionality and what not.
Truly a perfect reflection of liberal brain rot that you can't see this as bad.