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bangers only, i don't stand with israel
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they will literally roll out the red carpet for fascists in the name of civility
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the ADL blacklisting beitar, is like poop blacklisting diarrhea
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it's not just you. welcome to understanding the core function of liberalism: funneling people's dissent and discontent with the system into ineffective means of changing said system.
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when western countries commit the worst atrocities known to man, you people go "no state is flawless" and act like it's just a blotch on an otherwise good system, even when said system is built on genocide, colonialism, and dispossesion of the masses. you lack systems analysis and critical thinking.
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what gives israel and the USA the right to have nuclear weapons and then prevent iran from trying to make them? you're not the world police
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gee i wonder why they'd wanna destroy israel
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awful joke but same lmao
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i would feel waymo safe if they weren't on the streets
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🤓🤓🤓
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i don't want you not peacefully protesting, i want you to stop prioritizing optics over efficacy and either shaming or snitching on more radical actors.
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your strategy is literally to appeal to a mass amount of people by showing how mean those cops are for attacking you and how righteous you are for not fighting back. being subject to police violence makes you a victim of police violence.
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marches, historically, have only worked because they were an implicit threat to those in power that if you do not listen to our demands, we will hurt your bottom line.
so go out and march, do peaceful protest. i mean it, it's not a bad tactic. but it needs other forms of protest in order to work.
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then why did you tell me to give up
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i'm not telling you how to protest, i'm telling you to stop telling other people how to protest by policing them to only be peaceful and non-confrontational. peaceful protest isn't bad, but it needs to be used alongside other tactics if you want an effective movement.
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99% of the time police are the ones who instigate violence. no one wants confrontational resistance to be necessary, but those in power truly have no soul and the goal of a protest movement should be to resist oppression. if it's not, then it's just LARPing.
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and such is the core of liberal activism
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it is though.
this isn't about people being willing to put themselves in harms way, i commend people who do. what matters is efficacy. you're prioritizing optics over actually changing things because you're devoted to the idea that the system really can change if we just make a big scene.
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conscience. those in power, i.e. politicians and the rich, especially as you go higher up the ranks, have none. those at the top have no reason to care unless we make them care by threatening the only thing they care about: money.
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then you have a large movement, but it's totally feckless because no one's willing to go beyond marching and asking the oppressors (police, government, corporations) nicely to stop oppressing people so hard. this sort of peaceful, non-confrontational protest only works if your opponent has a
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windows get smashed or waymos get burnt. being passive might get *certain* people on your side, but optics only matter insofar as those people put pressure on those in power to act. if they adopt the same tactics of prioritizing optics over efficacy, because that's the only thing they'll accept,
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right so here's the thing:
if people are only going to care about your movement if you're the perfect victim doing no 'wrong' instead of actually analyzing the power dynamics of the situation, they're not your allies. your neighbors should care about ICE violently deporting people even if some
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it literally says "don't argue with or resist police"
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fuck obama
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wait till you find out what those agencies were established for
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or abolish the police too
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freudian slip of the year
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The mainstream media won't report on peaceful moments. Optics are less important than the risk of permanent brain injury or death imho.
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cops don't care if ammo is unnecessary, their goal is to cause harm and suppress resistance. you are never going to convince them of your righteousness because they have no conscience. if they did, they wouldn't be riot cops.
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he doesn't need an actual excuse, he'll make one up. stop using this notion as a reason to literally tell people to stop resisting fascism.
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how to kill a protest movement 101
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it would be oh so righteous and poetic like a scene from a marvel movie, but it would completely neuter the movement and play right into the hands of ICE and the cops.
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they could construct that "violence and disorder" narrative even if every single person was acting peacefully. they want free reign to intimidate, harass, and deport whoever they want. if you're going to get in the way of meaningful resistance because it's "too provocative" you're doing trump's work
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or maybe they're just sick of ineffective parades disguised as protests
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malcom x was 1000% correct when he called white liberals "the most dangerous thing in the western hemisphere". they will turn you over to the cops the second you do something "too provocative". they will be the death of every resistance movement.
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i did and nothing changed
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violent protesters are not "plants" and you're doing the cops' job for them by ratting them out. and the cops will reward you by kicking your ass just the same.