• DessertStorms@kbin.social
        17·
        1 year ago

        THIS is the correct answer.

        Cops don’t bother white supremacists for the sole reason that they are on the same fucking side, and often even share a fucking uniform (be it blue shirt and trousers, or white hood).

        That’s also why they are allowed to have armed protests in the first place, while Black people can’t even fucking walk down the street without being treated as armed and dangerous and shot dead by cops on a regular basis for simply existing. The idea that all leftists need to do is arm themselves if they want an armed protest is so far beyond ignorant, anyone who seriously believes it needs an emergency removal of head from rectum, at the very least…

    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      1 year ago

      Get. Your. Guns.

      Look, you can howl at every mass shooting and the lack of response for dealing with gun control and a responsible gun culture unlike some other countries in the world.

      But you can’t play with your dream hand you’ve got to play with hand you’ve been dealt.

      And in the American game, guns = might = rights. So show up with them and don’t act stupid.

      Act cool, calm, and collected. Show these chud that if they really want to escalate to a civil war, they’re not going to be the only ones firings shots. Don’t fire the first one, fire the last.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
      19·
      1 year ago

      Most folks are fairly ignorant of their rights due to a combination of lack of schools educating us on rights along with the desperate struggle to keep a roof over our heads

      spot on

      which those taking our rights understand have purposefully designed to be that way.

      We need to seriously encourage real journalism hold shitty police action accountable

      Never going to happen, since the mainstream media is also in service/under control of those taking our rights.

      demand that out rights are met

      Yes, By force. Because force is what we’re facing, and asking nicely (or writing exposés) is never going to free us from under it.

      • RustyShacklefordEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Never going to happen, since the mainstream media is also in service/under control of those taking our rights.

        Bingo, the mainstream media hasn’t been trustworthy for roughly 2 decades. It’s just canned propaganda brought to you from billionaires.

        • DessertStorms@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          Or just abolish the police entirely. From their inception their sole reason to exist has been to protect the rich and their property, and to oppress the people in the name of the state.

          Otherwise, you’re spot on with the haves vs have-nots and keeping us divided, because it isn’t just money that there are haves and have nots but other privileges too, which those in charge have artificially created to divide us further in service of gaining and maintaining their money and the power it gives them.

          (on a side note, “gypsy” is a slur used against Roma and other Traveller people, and should really only be used if it is being reclaimed by one of them)

            • DessertStorms@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, a lot of people don’t realise where the word comes from (same for “gypped” which comes from being scammed by a “gypsy”), and use it for both negative and “positive” (more like cultural appropriation, like when a white hippy calls themselves that word for example). Being willing to learn and do better is what matters, so you’re good!

              Personally I call cop all sorts of other names - bastards, pigs, nonce (UK slang for paedophile), but any swear, or accurate descriptor can work - fuckers, arseholes, oppressors, class traitors, and so on lol

              I’m not big on podcasts, but I’ve heard a lot about that behind the bustards episode in particular, I might have to give it a listen (though I am aware of the history of the police/slave patrols from other, written, sources, but the more you look, the worse it gets).

              (Edit to add a couple of those sources I have bookmarked, in case anyone is interested: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People, Not ‘Serve and Protect’ and Capitalism was created by the police power. Also bonus gif of cops getting grenade thrown back at them by a fucking legend I found in my folder lol)

  • Nora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    145·
    1 year ago

    It hasn’t clicked for most people that they’re going to have to do a “murder the bourgeois/fascists” soon.

    People have gotten too complacent and they’re scared. Big change is scary.

  • OccamsRazer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Protests usually don’t get shut down unless they are particularly disruptive, if they go on for days and if they significantly inconvenience people going about their daily lives. Usually white supremacist marches are cringey and eye rolling, but generally harmless.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      white supremacist marches are cringey and eye rolling,

      but generally harmless.

      No.

      They’re either white supremacist, or harmless, you can’t have both, and the fact that you’re even trying is super fucking gross.

      • OccamsRazer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        There’s a lot of people in the world with disgusting views, and most of them are irrelevant. White supremacists are irrelevant. They don’t actually do anything besides March around every now and then, and normal people give them side eye and move on with their daily lives.