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But why won't the protestors just be Nice? That's clearly the Most Important Thing that must Take up 23 Pages of Discussion. -- But seriously, yes, th...

I'm gonna hang these on the wall of a kindergarden somewhere. The kids will appreciate these pearls of generic, completely unspecific, utterly dime-a-...

Apparently the people who do live there don't live up to your rigorous standards either. Which leaves... ah. Got it.

Tell me More of your Wisdom.

Yes there is definitely Nothing more to say about the structural violence that led to yet another black man being murdered in broad daylight and the l...

WOW Well done you did it! You said the Important Definitely-Not-Trivial Thing To Say. I wish all the protestors had your courage!

Neither MLK nor Gandhi worked in a vacuum. Their principled non-violence was immersed in environments which were bloody, in which people died, were hu...

Look we get it, the protests are not up to your standard of purity, and the real issue is definitely not a trail of dead, state-murdered black men and...

^ Look an on-script one note liberal, right on cue.

Y'know the more I think about it the more I reckon the overwhelming anxiety from well-meaning but utterly shit liberals over protestor violence is bor...

No one's asking anyone to accept anything. Only that protestors don't have to keep qualifying their protests at every juncture to make people like you...

Good. No one cares about harmless protests.

There's nothing cynical about this suggestion at all. The fact is that certain social policies have, and remain, in place in order to keep blacks poor...

I'm just going to quote myself from earlier: Or to put it differently: the production of "bad actors" is a production and reflection of the social rea...

@"Baden" - Beau's righteous fury at the shitty WhAt AbOuT tHe JoBs AnD tHe BuSiNeSeS?! argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu1RqB-Jsgw "Tell me ...

Ahhh Beau is Bae. He's like my zen space of the internet. I could listen to him talk for hours.

Thank the Lord.

Woah 10 different black people.

Ah yes, Dennis Rodman. The black person who can stand in for all black people. They're all the same after all. Just metonyms of each other. That's how...

Heh, it's like when the Brazilian favela drug gangs had to enforce social distancing because Bolsonaro was too inept and kept (and keeps) not giving a...

@"ssu": I mentioned earlier that police terror in the US is a matter of social policy. One further observation in support of this: simply consider the...

All the better to put their fucking brains through their skulls. Less mess. Very considerate.

Gee, who could have fucking seen that mobilizing the national guard to put down protests for civil rights would have gotten someone killed! /uploads/r...

:up: Somewhere else, someone mentioned that if we can't be antifascists, then we can be Fascisn'ts instead. I quite like that.

Yes, I know. It's pretty funny to me. It's like declaring the 'alt-right' a terrorist organization. It's so stupid, its funny.

It should also be said: if Trump designates antifa as a terrorist organization, this can only be a good thing. The US government will then be obliged ...

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/outside-agitator-racial-justice-protests-minneapolis-george-floyd

Wacquant refers to the US as a 'laboratory' in which certain factors were in place that enabled and encouraged this kind of use of police terror as pi...

The sociological answer is this: the role of the police in American capitalism is specifically engineered to be an alternative to social provision. In...

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Ohhh no. Oh no no no no. https://www.mamamia.com.au/aboriginal-deaths-in-custody/ " more than 400 Indigenous Australians who’ve died in custody since ...

Notably, Germany did not undergo a revolution. It was taken over by means of a constitutionally sanctioned exception clause. Entirely legal.

/uploads/resized/files/z6/w0c85mlzpdg2z984.jpg Love me a good bit of order. Look at them clean lines. Not an anarchist in sight, just people living in...

Of course I do, and nothing I've said would indicate otherwise.

Yes, you have been for some time.

I'm not convinced we are in any position to critique tactics. As I mentioned way back in the fog of this thread, it's presumptuous to tell people who ...

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Caught me dead to rights!

I don't believe I've accused you of anything. It's a disagreement over values and framing.

I'll take it! Kinda. Probably more Maoist. States are a bit meh.

This is really important - I think part of the problem here is that certain people cannot even begin to fathom any notion of conflict which is not mod...

'MURICA.

There's nothing sensible about 3 centuries - and more - of injustice.

Yes, I'm an antifascist.

Yes, yes, just like how the majority of the media is 'just commenting' on all the awful 'violence' of these very unaesthetic black people being inappr...

Literally no one but you has even mentioned the word 'revolution' you insufferable two-bit dolt.

Ah yes, citing a racist fucktard like Katie Hopkins is exactly the place to go to for reliable news right now.

/uploads/resized/files/ac/rgwwgfqrgwwpzz3b.jpg BuT DeStRoYiNg TaRgEt WiLl HuRt ThE LoCaL CoMmUnItY! WhAt DoEs CaPiTaLiSm HaVe tO dO wItH iT?

idk maybe you can call the cops on me or something for not being productive enough for you.

I'm here to try and make sure the discourse around legitimate protests doesn't get co-opted by pearl clutching liberals who couldn't give a rats ass a...