True. Also true that a lot of Americans burned things the last five years. Our militarized police attacked them and I believe there are credible accounts of assassinations. - ThreadSky

tressiemcphd.bsky.social • 3 days ago

True.

Also true that a lot of Americans burned things the last five years. Our militarized police attacked them and I believe there are credible accounts of assassinations.

Reposted from David Ho

From my time in Paris, I know that in France people would have burned a lot of stuff by now.

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anxiousrage.bsky.social•3 days ago

I also wonder about France’s safety net when people look to it as an example of what we should be doing. Are the French at risk of losing their jobs, housing and healthcare if they get arrested for protesting?

Real question because I don’t know.

morgankharris.bsky.social•3 days ago

no, they are not. not like us.

trashdoctor.bsky.social•3 days ago

ime their right to protest is pretty well protected, attended, and respected - I’ve been there during strikes and the business owners were pretty supportive of their staff striking. Museum staff kept their jobs and the museums just reduced their open hours to accommodate.

trashdoctor.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah. The Europeans telling us that we are lazy/complacent for not torching the state already, have never met our police. They genuinely don’t understand that bullets are real and not conceptual. It’s maddening.

doclittle.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Greeks know quite well.

ecksearoh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Several black men were found hanging from nooses in public places at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement. And they were all ruled suicides by the local police. I will never forget this, the press didn't investigate, the FBI did nothing, but the black community remembered.

wyethearth.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think of the core organizers in Ferguson who were attacked repeatedly, like Melissa McKinnies, whose son was “somehow” lynched in their own yard. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ferguson-activist-believes-son-was-lynched-police-investigating-suicide-n929961

praisethe-sun.bsky.social•3 days ago

The U.S has gotten 1 new federal holiday this century. Juneteenth.

They didn't get that holiday because people asked nicely or voted for it. Or cause USA oligarchs were feeling generous. or Joe Biden was so senile he accidentally gave away a holiday. (1/2)

praisethe-sun.bsky.social•3 days ago

USA got it because Black Americans rang out with force across the country that Black Lives Matter and backed that force with burned down corporate property and police stations across the USA

So Uncle Sam actually gave a minor concession to the American plebs to get them quiet and back to work (2/2)

djohnrowins.bsky.social•3 days ago

Credible reports that it was not always the protesters burning and vandalizing giving permission for suppression and the arrival of people like Rittenhouse

tressiemcphd.bsky.social•3 days ago

(We are Americans too…)

insideoutneon.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’ve been thinking a lot about all of the George Floyd protesters who either disappeared or mysteriously died in car fires

fogurr.bsky.social•3 days ago

erica floyd died of a heart attack at 30

ecksearoh.bsky.social•3 days ago

A puzzling number of men tied to the Ferguson protests have since died

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/03/18/a-puzzling-number-of-men-tied-to-the-ferguson-protests-have-since-died/

ecksearoh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Suicide or Lynching? Five People of Color Found Hanged in Less Than a Month

https://www.leftvoice.org/suicide-or-lynching-six-people-of-color-found-hanged-in-less-than-a-month/

damagedamages.bsky.social•3 days ago

Did that happen to George Floyd protestors too? My recollection is that several of the young men from the Ferguson uprising were found shot to death in car fires.

marleywrites.bsky.social•3 days ago

I thought that was Ferguson, but there was this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_and_Michael_Reinoehl

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guyinkcognito.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ones who experienced the militarized police during the George Floyd uprising know the consequences of speaking up against the state.

deadandpats.bsky.social•3 days ago

Someone smarter than me can tell me I'm wrong here but France going on strike over retirement benefits feels like a false equivalent to me. France didn't protest away Nazis last time.

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lunarbike.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m not convinced French police fire guns at their citizens like US police do in the regular. It’s an apples to oranges comparison.

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