• CupcakeOfSpice [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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        Isn’t there footage and/or photographs of him getting arrested at protests in his younger years? Did he just live to see himself become a villain or maybe was he a stopped clock? It seemed like he used to better, even if he was just a lib. I guess years in a comfy politician’s chair can change a man.

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    John Brown wears a hangman’s noose for a necktie up in Heaven. I asked him about it, and he said, ‘Where’s yours? Where’s yours?’ His eyes were like glowing coins. ‘Without shedding of blood,’ he said, ‘there is no remission of sin.’

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    LOL JFC. They aren’t going to back down even if you and your granny are doing something as benign as arts n crafts sit ins. They will still bash you in the head and shoot you for simply being there. They were doing that shit in 2020. This is embarrassing.

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    As much respect as I have for Dr. King; the violence of his death, and the violent reaction to his death, is what prompted the government to stop fucking around and pass legislation.

    The assassination and subsequent riots quickly revived the bill.[38][39][27][40] On April 5, Johnson wrote a letter to the United States House of Representatives urging passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act.[31] The Rules Committee, “jolted by the repeated civil disturbances virtually outside its door,” finally ended its hearings on April 8.[41] With newly urgent attention from White House legislative director Joseph Califano and Speaker of the House John McCormack, the bill—which was previously stalled that year—passed the House by a wide margin on April 10

    I suppose that you could argue the non-violent approach was necessary to reach the critical mass of support necessary to achieve rioting on this scale, but ultimately the violence is what got the goods.

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    hey Bernie how did the non-violent Great March of Return go in Palestine? what contest did the IOF snipers hold?

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    Is the obsession of every politician with telling people to be peaceful just a distraction from the actual purpose of the protests? Like i cant help but think they will turn on a dime once one protestor does something violent, even if its self-defense. And then you’ll have all the libs going “they shouldve been peaceful”

    Reminds me of Lenin dunking on Plekhanov’s “They should not have taken up arms”

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      just a distraction from the actual purpose of the protests?

      It is bigtime that, but it is also a distraction from the fact that activists are getting shot at and arrested for blocking ICE vans in an effort to prevent them from black-bagging people’s fucking aunts and uncles. The activists attempting to STOP the state’s arbitrary and capricious use of violence end up being smeared as the violent ones. The whole point is that the violence is ALREADY HAPPENING and will continue unless it is prevented by direct action.

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    violent protest

    How many ICE fuckers have the protestors iced? 0.

    How many people has ICE killed in the course of its work? A lot.

    Bernard doesn’t know what violence is.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Listen sweaty, a petit bourgeoisie store owner’s window getting a brick hurled through is 10000 times more traumatizing than anything ICE could do to anyone. ICE is mostly legal, which makes it ok. I can’t believe I have to explain this to people, but breaking things is illegal and therefore bad. If these protestors really wanted to make a good impression, they should’ve stayed home and protested quietly while watching netflix or something. maybe-later-kiddo