• MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.world
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    The solution is more left-wing protest groups. Especially now that their manpower is down. (Edit: they’re their)

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      We can look to the French for how crowds surrounded individuals who physically fought back, preventing their capture by authorities. That was a vid I saw on the old site. Dude walloped some cops and then people pulled him into their ranks and made a wall.

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          Wear a mask and don’t post videos from protests with recognizable faces.

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            Good advice. But wearing a mask in public (dissimulating your face in general) is actually illegal in France (because of Sarkozy iirc). Not saying people stopped doing it at protests but it gives an excuse to the police to arrest you even if you are not being violent.

            Edit : I just checked, the fine increases 10 to 20 fold for doing it at a protest…

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              COVID’s still going strong and your mask “is for health protection”. Crowds of people like that make for fertile ground for disease to spread which is all the more reason for people to mask up and for fellow protestors to hand out surgical masks.

              An even better solution is a full face covering respirator to avoid eye exposure. From disease or chemical weapons used by police against their own citizens.

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      armed protest groups, but trump wants an excuse to use more excessive force, left wing groups are not very keen in using weapons.

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    Remember when Right wingers were calling leftists & liberals fascists.

    Right-wingers project & shift the blames of their crimes onto the left

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    I saw an ad on linked in for Special Agent hirings because it matched my skills or qualifications.

    But then I thought to myself, if I joined and I didnt fall in line Id probably be killed. So nah, no thanks.

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      If all people who share your opinions think like you then that institution will be left to your opponents.

      Joining would be praxis. You don’t have to be a double agent or anything, just be a sympathetic voice in meetings and such. Simply making the institution politically diverse and preventing it from being an echo chamber of like-minded people is already making a change in the world.

      As an example, in 1923 Hitler attempted a coup, but got off with an amazingly light eight months of prison. The reason is the judiciary at the time were quite sympathetic to him; they didn’t do anything illegal, yet had they been SPD supporters instead Hitler might have gotten a life sentence for his high treason.

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        Im curious, are you American? Because as an American I know that oligarchs control the media and often times people who leak are never painted as heroes. And then they disappear.

        CPD is like an example on a city scale where every inner city kid knows they function like a gang.

        I will not waste my time trying to infiltrate and put my life on the line when others before me have like Edward Snowden and then be condemned from reentering my country.

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          I’m not American, it just happens that where I live everyone is quoting from Gramsci’s cultural hegemony at the moment. ^^

          My point is you don’t need to leak to matter, or do anything illegal. The simple fact that powerful institutions are staffed with people who share your ideology is helpful to you. (I do have a lot of respect for leakers though)

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      he always had these crazy eyes you cant get over, you know something is not right in his head.

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    How long until something really bad happens because the FBI is busy prosecuting Trump’s political rivals instead of doing their job?

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    Repeat after me… Kash Patel is a panchod fudu, and his mom is a third rate gandi randi.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Future Wikipedia Article:

    2025 Lafayette Square protests and massacre

    The Lafayette Square Square Massacre were student-led demonstrations held in Lafayette Square, Washington DC, USA. After hours of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the US government to find a peaceful resolution, the US government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of [redacted] in what was referred to as the Lafayette Square Massacre. The events are sometimes called the '25 Anti-Fascist Movement.

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      That’s a BS “both sides-ism” that can result in people shrugging off the absolute destruction of the operational norms. I wouldn’t argue that the two primary parties are heading in the same direction of fascism. However, there’s a significant difference between the gleeful sprinting towards it by the right as compared to the Dems dragging their feet and enjoying the scenery.

      While the 100 year result might be the same if there isn’t systemic change, one side (primarily by inaction) will provide more time to correct course before hitting the iceberg

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        Historically, the intelligence agencies have opposed leftism and equality movements, and played with kids gloves where right wing is concerned. This is because right wing policies tend to be backed by the elite, who butter the bread of the agencies.

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          Agree 100% and it has always been frustrating to see right wing groups get a pass for what boils down to “mild” terrorism. I just think that, given the current US political climate, it’s detrimental to lump the parties together. I’m only a defender of the Dem Party when in contrast to the GOP. Otherwise there’s a litany of grievances I’d aim at them.

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    I’m beginning to think the Constitution needs an amendment appendix that has definitions of terms, i.e. ‘peaceful protests’